Salvadori

Giovanni (1892). Dressmaker and embroiderer. Born in Spesiano in the province of Treviso, he began his career designing decorative and ornamental motifs to be embroidered on dresses, cloaks, and accessories. Between 1922 and 1924 he moved with his family to Rome and opened his first dressmaking workshop in Via Giovanni Fattori. Here he made clothes embroidered using the French Cornely machine. Alongside his own work, the firm operated an embroidery division that supplied the most important Florentine dressmakers of the time and also received many foreign commissions. His creations ended up as a strange union of hand embroidery, finishing effects, little cord underlinings carried out mechanically, and glass beads applied by crochet hook. These techniques were also used by Salvadori in his finishes for astrakhan or breitschwanz coats. Following a fall-off in production in 1929 due to the economic depression, Salvadori set up his final base at 1 Via Lamberti, with the name “Modelli-Ricami-Confezioni-Salvadori Firenze.” He remained active here until 1934/1935.