Giuseppe Zanotti
It is the 1980’s. Giuseppe Zanotti, in its early twenties, treasuring the time-honored and deep-rooted shoemaking tradition of his native town, San Mauro Pascoli, starts his career as a fashion designer and collaborates with internationally renowned companies for several years. His initial focuses are line, style and research.
In mid-nineties, eager to fully express his ideas and not to have to come to terms with his talent, starts a project called Vicini. Together, with his wife Cinzia, he takes over a company that can manufacture the shoes of his dreams, a company that might be defined as an “expanded style office,” because he would make style, research, creativity its beating heart. Giuseppe Zanotti has been the first actor of this story, a grown-up young man who followed his dream and has never stops, and never stops looking for something more.