Venice Has a Long Road to Recovery: How One Local Shoe Designer Is Bringing Attention to the City’s Iconic Glass Industry

As Venice grapples with both pandemic and environmental challenges, the city’s road to recovery is long. With that in mind, one local designer is determined to bring attention to the city’s rich history of glassmaking. For spring ’22, designer Giorgia Caovilla has unveiled the O Jour for Venice collection, which features the brand’s classic sandals embellished with special murrine, the glass beads that are a symbol of Venetian craftsmanship. The pearls, which are made of one-of-a-kind glass from the 1960s, are enhanced on shoes thanks to a bezel that protects the stone. “Venice has had a really hard time during the pandemic, so I wanted to do something to show people Venice is strong. We have something you can’t find around the world, and I wanted to explain it with shoes,” said Caovilla, who launched her namesake collection in 2011 after learning the business from her family. The project was born from a collaboration between the Venetian entrepreneur and Diana Battaggia, director of Unido, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. Each pearl of murrine glass is distinctive. CREDIT: Giovanni De Sandre Caovilla and Battaggia met at the 2006 Minerva Award ceremony, when Caovilla received a female entrepreneurship award. Since then, their common interest has always been

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