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Article: MAGIC WANDA; THE WIFE OF A LEGENDARY HOLLYWOOD CRAFTSMAN CARRIES ON HIS LEGACY AND TRANSFORMS THE COMPANY INTO A LUXURY GOODS POWERHOUSE.
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- WWD
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- September 25, 2006
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Byline: Alessandra Ilari, Luisa Zargani, Amanda Kaiser, Marc Karimzadeh
In 1940, Salvatore Ferragamo was wealthy, successful and welcome in the most glamorous circles. The only thing his star-dusted life lacked was a family to come home to at night. So the "shoemaker to the stars" decided it was time to go "shopping for a wife," as he put it.
Little did he imagine, though, that his search for Cinderella would culminate in love at first sight when he laid eyes on Wanda Miletti, a pretty and spunky brunette, from his hometown of Bonito, Italy.
He wed Miletti in Naples in November 1940 as the first bombings of World War II resonated through the ...