Bottega Veneta

Bottega Veneta (pronounced [botˈteːɡa ˈvɛːneta]) is an Italian luxury fashion house based in Milan, Italy.

[1][2] Bottega Veneta is headquartered in Milan, Italy, with its main atelier located in Montebello, Vicenza.

[9] A 1978 two-page ad for Bottega Veneta - created by Andy Warhol Studio and published in the magazine Interview - introduced the brand's tagline "When your own initials are enough".

[10] In 1980, the actress Lauren Hutton carried a Bottega Veneta Intrecciato bag in the movie American Gigolo.

[24] In 2013, Bottega Veneta moved its atelier from Vicenza to a historic 18th-century villa surrounded by a 590,000-square-foot park near Montebello Vicentino.

[26] Bottega Veneta also opened its first flagship store, a 11,448 square-foot boutique in a historical building on Via Sant'Andrea in Milan.

[33] In 2018, Bottega Veneta opened a 6-floor flagship store in Ginza, Tokyo, in a building designed as a tribute to the capital's architectural modernism.

[34] In January 2018, Bottega Veneta opened a 15,000-square-foot store—its third flagship store—on the corner of Madison and 64th Street in New York City.

[48] In April 2021, the Berlin police investigated Bottega Veneta's Salon afterparty following the show held at Berghain pursuant to social distancing and masking laws during the COVID-19 pandemic.

[53] Blazy brought an inclusive management style, shrank the design team, and got the craftspeople involved in the creative process.

[61] In December 2024, Bottega Veneta announced Matthieu Blazy's departure and the hiring of Louise Trotter as the next creative director of the company.

[64] Bottega Veneta manufactures fashion ready-to-wear, handbags, shoes, accessories, jewelry and fragrances.

It operates the Manifattura Veneta Pelletterie (leather manufacturer) in Altavilla Vicentina (since 2011), in Malo (since 2012),[65] and in Dueville (since 2019)[66] in the Veneto region.

[76] For its advertisement campaigns, Bottega Veneta has been working with photographers including Philip-Lorca diCorcia (2005),[78] Lord Snowdon (2006), Annie Leibovitz (2007), Tina Barney (2007), Larry Sultan (2008), Sam Taylor-Wood (2008), Nick Knight (2008),[79] Stephen Shore, Steven Meisel (2009),[80] Nan Goldin (2010),[81] Robert Longo (2010),[81] Alex Prager (2011),[81] Mona Kuhn (2011),[82] Robert Polidori (2011), Jack Pierson (2011),[83] Erwin Olaf (2012),[81] Collier Schorr (2012),[80] Peter Lindbergh (2012),[84] Pieter Hugo (2014),[85] Ryan McGinley (2014),[86] Nobuyoshi Araki (2014),[87] Juergen Teller (2015),[88] Raymond Meier (2015),[89] Viviane Sassen (2016),[90] and Todd Hido (2017).

Bottega Veneta window display
Bottega Veneta window display.
Bottega Veneta store in Munich
Bottega Veneta store in Munich