Bruno Magli
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Bruno Magli is an Italian shoemaker, designing and handcrafting high quality luxury shoes and accessories.
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[edit] History
After learning the art from their grandfather, Bruno, Marino and Maria Magli started crafting women's shoes in a small basement in Bologna, Italy in 1936. Eleven years later, in 1947, was created the first plant, which also produced men's shoes. The current plant was built is 1969. In the 80's the Magli company developed a franchising retail network which lead, in about twenty years, to around forty "franchises", strewn around in Europe, America, Japan, Far East, China, Australia.
Bruno Magli is now a privately held upscale brand leader in men's and women's footwear, leather clothing, women's handbags, luggage items, small leather goods, and other accessories.
[edit] Miscellaneous
Bruno Magli shoes were in the spotlight during O.J. Simpson's trial, when on June 19, 1995 Federal Bureau of Investigation expert William Bodziak testified that the famous bloody shoe prints at the scene of the double murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman had been left by a size 12 pair of $160 Bruno Magli shoes ("Lorenzo" model). Simpson called the Brunos "ugly ass" shoes while denying he ever owned them.[1] The actual shoes used during the crime have not been recovered.
[edit] Pop Culture Appearances
- In Season 2 Episode 14 of the television series Family Guy, the charactor Stewie has a flashback that is a direct reference to the OJ Simpson case, specifically the Bruno Magli shoes. While trying to socialize with a group of cheerleaders, he offers some advice to one of the girls at the table and then remarks, "...and I know something about bad ideas". At this point, he is shown having drinks with a tall, African American man that he calls "Juice". "I'm telling you Juice, she's screwing around behind your back. If I were in your Bruno Magli's, I wouldn't stand for it."
