Wanda woman

If Wanda Miletti Ferragamo were alive today, she would be a centenarian. How did the Italian entrepreneur want to be remembered?

“Above all, as a mother, a mother who had taken up business,” she once said.

An exhibition titled “Women In Balance/1955-1965” pays tribute to the native of Bonito, who married the 42-year-old Salvatore Ferragamo in November 1940, when she was almost 19.

The legendary shoemaker however passed away in August 1960, and she took the helm of her husband’s company while caring for her children, some of whom were still very young.

“I had never worked before in my life and I had no idea where to begin. Moreover, I had no…