WHERE HEART AND HANDS BECOME ONE

BOTTEGA VENETA CELEBRATES THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE INTRECCIATO, A SILENT ICONOGRAPHY THAT'S BECOME THE HOUSE'S BRANDING.

- KELLY LEWI

FASHION MOVES at an unforgiving speed. Each season begins with the pieces that create the loudest buzz online, the ones that spark the most noise. Still, amidst all the beautiful chaos, is a quietude of Bottega Veneta; a silence of unsaid words, making space for a melody of craftsmanship. As the house best says it, to find the present is to return to the beginning. And the beginning of the Italian house traces back not to its founding years, but to 1975 – the year Intrecciato was born.

Translating to 'interwoven', the Intrecciato has become so synonymous with Bottega Veneta that it has become its own logo, an unspoken branding that precedes the modern notion of 'quiet luxury'.