Bruno Magli

Magli Atelier shoes in Via Montenapoleone, Milan.

Bruno Magli is an Italian shoemaker, designing and handcrafting luxury shoes and accessories.

History

After learning the art from their grandfather, Magli and his siblings Marino and Maria started cobbling women's shoes in a small basement in Bologna, Italy, in 1936. In 1947, the first factory was built, which also produced men's shoes. The current plant was built in 1969. In the 1980s, the Magli company developed a franchising retail network which led, in about twenty years, to around 40 "franchises", strewn around Europe, America, Japan, China and other Asian countries, and Australia.

Magli is now a privately held manufacturer of men's and women's footwear, leather clothing, women's handbags, luggage items, small leather goods, and other accessories.

In popular culture

Bruno Magli shoes were in the spotlight during the O.J. Simpson murder trial. On June 19, 1995, FBI expert William Bodziak testified that the famous bloody shoe prints at the scene of the double murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman had been left by a size-12 pair of $230 Bruno Magli shoes ("Lorenzo" model). Simpson called the Brunos "ugly ass" shoes while denying he ever owned them.[1] Photos were later shown to the jury of Simpson at a September 1993 football game, wearing shoes positively identified by Bodziak as size 12, Lorenzo-style Bruno Maglis. The actual shoes used during the crime have not been recovered.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ CNN - Thanks to O.J., Bruno Maglis are really big shoes - Jan. 23, 1997

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