Bottega Veneta

BOTTEGA VENETA OPENS NEW YORK RESIDENCE The Madison Avenue space is down the street from the brand’s first ever store.   Bottega Veneta opens a new residence at 740 Madison Avenue, New York. The elegant loft apartment, situated above the Bottega Veneta store, is the brand’s second space for private clients following the opening of the Bottega Veneta residence in Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel in Venice in June.   Designed by Matthieu Blazy, the residence brings together Bottega Veneta craft, creativity, and cultural advocacy. On an appointment-only basis, it will offer the most discerning Bottega Veneta clients a range of exclusive services, while also hosting a regular programme of cultural events that builds on the house’s history of cultural engagement and nurtures dialogue, exchange, and community building across artistic disciplines, genres, and generations. #BOTTEGAVENETA

BOTTEGA VENETA PARTNERS WITH FLOS ON SPECIAL EDITION OF GINO SARFATTI’S MODEL 600 LAMP #BOTTEGAVENETA

BOTTEGA VENETA LAUNCHES WINTER SOLSTICE 24 CAMPAIGN #BOTTEGAVENETA

BOTTEGA VENETA LAUNCHES NEW CAMPAIGN STARRING JACOB ELORDI Bottega Veneta today launches a new campaign starring Brand Ambassador Jacob Elordi. The campaign, captured by Magnum photographer Alec Soth, draws on the brand’s integral code of movement to celebrate “Going Places”. Shot on location in Utah and Nevada, it shows Elordi moving through the dramatic natural features and sleek architecture of the desert.   With Elordi in dynamic and balletic poses, the cinematic images spotlight new Bottega Veneta travel accessories and underscore the motion and discovery at the heart of the brand’s heritage. Established in 1966, the house set itself apart with the softness and malleability of its leather goods. Unlike the more formal and structured bags that dominated the market at the time, Bottega Veneta designs were supple and flexible, readily adapting to the wearer in motion.   For Creative Director Matthieu Blazy, “Bottega Veneta is in essence pragmatic because it is a leather goods company. Because it specialises in bags, it is about movement, going somewhere; there is fundamentally an idea of craft in motion.” #BOTTEGAVENETA

BOTTEGA VENETA INTRODUCES NEW FRAGRANCE COLLECTION   This fall, Bottega Veneta introduces its first fragrance collection under the Creative Direction of Matthieu Blazy. Rooted in house heritage, the collection is inspired by Bottega Veneta’s origin city of Venice, as well as the house’s signature leather weave, the Intrecciato.   Looking to Venice’s long-standing history as a hub of cross-cultural trade and encounter, Blazy designed each of the collection’s five fragrances as a meeting of ingredients from different countries and continents. Just as Venice long bridged influences from North and South, East and West, this olfactory Intrecciato tells a global story, weaving 100% natural origin essences from different corners of the globe into evocative perfumes that captivate the senses and transport the imagination. Intended as an elevated object for life, the bottle is refillable, with 0% plastic and sustainable materials in every component of the design. #BOTTEGAVENETA

SUMMER 25 SHOW SPACE INTRODUCES THE ARK Commissioned by Matthieu Blazy for Bottega Veneta, The Ark is a limited-edition lounge chair collection inspired by the Zanotta Sacco. The Sacco was designed in 1968 by Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini and Franco Teodoro. It shares the same softness, antiformalism, malleability and fluidity that characterised Bottega Veneta’s early bags. In his lively take on Zanotta’s design classic, Blazy’s reinterpretation of the Sacco utilises the chair’s malleability, metamorphosing its shape into playful animal forms. Each iteration is an evocation of childlike creativity, representing wonder and boundless imagination – what Blazy refers to as ‘the power of wow.’ 15 animals are featured in a variety of colourways: dog, panda, rabbit, ladybird, snake, bird, chicken, dinosaur, otter, elephant, cat, fox, bear, horse, whale. Sold over six months in small numbers, the first limited quantities of The Ark is available on the Bottega Veneta website. Appropriately enough, there will be two of each animal. The Ark is next available this year at Design Miami – December 01-08 – where the light grey rabbit and white chicken will be sold exclusively at the fair. #BOTTEGAVENETA

BOTTEGA VENETA SUMMER 25 SHOW “As a kid, there is the adventure of the everyday – there’s a feeling that anything could happen, no matter how fantastical and we are not so bound by regular expectations and conventions. The door is open to the possibility of strange realities and wonder, impossible scenarios that banish disillusion. This is about the power of sincerity over strategy.” Matthieu Blazy A golden light suffuses a remembered room where there is a refusal to put away childish things. Animal shapes abound, playful, easeful yet also purposeful. The journey this time comes in the form of a reverie, of past and present. It is a coming-of-age story where the redemptive power of fashion is combined with the intrepid imaginings of Creative Director Matthieu Blazy. #BOTTEGAVENETA

Bottega Veneta Summer 25 Show

Bottega Veneta Summer 25 Show 21 September 2024, 8PM CET

BOTTEGA VENETA LAUNCHES ITS LATEST FANZINE FEATURING COLLABORATIONS WITH ALEC SOTH, VYTAUTAS KUMZA, AND JUDY BOWMAN Bottega Veneta today launches the fifth edition of its limited-edition fanzine. Coinciding with the arrival of the Winter 24 collection, the publication is available free-of-charge in Bottega Veneta stores around the globe. The fanzine invites readers to share in the wealth of creative energy around Matthieu Blazy’s latest collection. True to the spirit of collaboration and exchange at the heart of the house, the publication celebrates the ideas and inspirations that informed Blazy’s designs, as well as artistic expressions that have surrounded and derived from his collection. Through five volumes, readers can enjoy campaign imagery by Magnum photographer Alec Soth, shot on location in Utah and Nevada; behind-the-scenes pictures from the campaign shoot; a retrospective of the brand’s On the Rocks installation during Milan Design Week; a collaboration with photographer Vytautas Kumza; and a portfolio of prints by collage artist Judy Bowman. The issue also includes an exclusive postcard set with further atmospheric images shot on location in Utah and Nevada, as well as an embroidered patch that nods to the extraterrestrial folklore of the area. Like each of Bottega Veneta’s fanzines, the limited-edition publication is designed to welcome all followers and fans of the house into Bottega Veneta’s creative process and community. It is available on a first come, first served basis in Bottega Veneta stores worldwide. #BOTTEGAVENETA