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Salvatore Ferragamo or Ferragamo? The 2022 Rename, Explained

Two people can give you two different answers about what this house is called, and neither is wrong. From around 23 September 2022 onward, the bags, the storefronts and the show invitations have read simply FERRAGAMO. Yet the annual report, the share listing and every major resale platform still read Salvatore Ferragamo. This is not a contradiction, and it is not a half-finished rebrand that somebody forgot to complete. It is a deliberate distinction between a brand mark and a legal entity, and once you notice it the confusion goes away for good. The rest of this piece unpacks that single insight and reassembles it.

September 2022: what actually moved

The change was made public around 23 September 2022, placed ahead of the Spring/Summer 2023 show. What moved was the mark: the founder’s handwritten script signature made room for a custom serif drawn by the designer Peter Saville, which references the lettering of classical stone inscriptions. The word Salvatore came off the front of the brand. That is a considerable shift in tone, because a handwritten signature says founder, family and workshop, while a cut serif says institution, monument and permanence. It arrived in the same period as Maximilian Davis’s tenure as creative director, which began in March 2022, so the visual reset and the design reset landed together. The founder’s feragamo.net/hug-bags name was not erased from the story, only from the front of the label, and the archive he built still stands behind every current bag. Practically speaking, any bag bought after that point displays a brand identity of exactly one word.

What was left alone: the company

The company kept its name, and it still has it. Behind every Ferragamo bag sits the legal entity Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A., and that is precisely the name its own 2026 investor documents use. Listed on Borsa Italiana under the ticker SFER, it remains family-controlled. What happened, then, was a rename of the mark rather than of the corporation, and the distinction seems fussy only until you try to reconcile a boutique window with a financial filing. Nothing about the ownership, the Florentine headquarters at Palazzo Spini Feroni or the corporate structure was renamed alongside the logotype. Both names are therefore live at once, working in different registers: the first is a brand, the second a company.

Why resale platforms never changed over

Resale is where the older name is most stubbornly alive. Every major pre-owned platform still files the house under Salvatore Ferragamo, so a listing for a Gancini crossbody or a Hug shoulder bag sits in that category regardless of when the bag was made. There is a practical reason. Those catalogues span decades of stock, and relabelling an archive full of bags made long before 2022 would break every historical listing and every saved search. What buyers type is what is stamped inside the bags they already own, which changes slowly. The result is a secondary market that quietly kept the founder’s first name in circulation while the boutique let it go. If you shop pre-owned and search only the short form, you will overlook inventory sitting in plain sight.

Where each name turns up

It helps to think of the two names as belonging to different surfaces rather than to different eras. On a shop front, a hangtag, a campaign or a runway credit you will find the one-word mark. On a share listing, an annual report or a corporate release you will find the full company name. On a resale platform, in a search box, or in a wardrobe someone has owned for fifteen years, the founder’s name lives on. Not one of them is wrong, and not one undercuts another. Where each version turns up is set out in the table below, which should end the second-guessing.

Where you see it	Name in use	Why that one
Storefronts, hangtags, campaigns, runway	Ferragamo	The brand mark in use from around 23 September 2022, logotype drawn by Peter Saville
Share listing, annual report and filings	Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A.	The legal company name, unchanged; ticker SFER on Borsa Italiana
Resale and consignment platforms	Salvatore Ferragamo	Catalogues span decades of stock, keeping archive listings findable
Search bars and everyday talk	Either form, misspellings included	Habit outlives branding decisions by years

What happens in the search box

Search behaviour is the untidiest surface of all, and it is worth being blunt about it. People still type salvatore bag and salvatore bags when they are after handbags from this house, because that is the name they learned first. They also type ferragamo bag and ferragamo bags, and when they are hunting for a discount they type ferragamo sale or ferragamo outlet. A steady share of them type feragamo, with a single r, which is the most common misspelling of the name. None of these queries is looking for a different brand; they are all looking for the same Florentine leather goods. In practice, try more than one spelling before you decide a model is unavailable.

Did the bags change?

Changing a logo is not changing a product, so it is fair asking what actually moved on the bags. The Gancio and Gancini hardware stayed, and both spellings remain the brand’s own usage: current copy describes two golden Gancio buckles on the Hug XS and an iconic Gancini closure on the Cara. Made in Italy was kept: it runs across every current bag product page, and the Studio Bag collection page states that each bag is crafted in Italy. So did the material vocabulary, which still runs through smooth and grained calfskin, suede, python, hand-woven wicker with silk lining, raffia, canvas and jacquard. What did move was emphasis: the Hug became the assortment’s centre of gravity, and the Cara appeared as the newest architectural silhouette. Prices did not reset either: observed 2026 market prices on the brand’s own site still run from roughly $830 for an entry Double Gancini piece to about $4,800 at the top of the everyday range, with a thin exotic tail above it. What changed was the way the house signs its work, and nothing else: the design language came through unchanged.

What this means when you shop

Treat the two names as two doors into the same room. Anything current calls for the one-word form, since that is how the brand’s own webstore, its roughly 354 boutiques and its authorised stockists, Nordstrom, Bloomingdale’s, Saks Fifth Avenue, Mytheresa and Farfetch included, organise their pages. For anything pre-owned or archival, search the founder’s full name as well, because that is how the platforms are indexed. Do not read the older name on a listing as a warning sign, and do not read the newer one as proof of anything either, since both appear in entirely legitimate contexts. One structural fact is worth carrying here: there is no official online outlet, only seasonal sale sections on the label’s own site and brand-operated stores inside outlet villages. A website that presents itself as an official online outlet, whichever version of the name it uses, is not this brand. Seriously enough to publish numbers, the house reports 107 fraudulent websites and 89,136 counterfeit listings removed for 2022 alone.

In brief

If you want the distinction in one line, here it is: the brand is Ferragamo, the company is Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A., and both are correct in 2026. The rename that took effect around 23 September 2022 changed the mark, the logotype and the way the house presents itself, and it left the corporate name untouched. Anyone telling you the brand was renamed outright has half the story, and anyone telling you nothing changed has the other half. The founder’s name is sustained by resale platforms, by search habits, and by every wardrobe stocked before 2022. Use whichever version gets you to the bag you want, and expect to meet both. The house has made room for two names, and it shows no sign of collapsing them into one.