According to FashionNetwork.com, Golden Goose recently celebrated its 20th anniversary in Venice. For the occasion the Italian brand of distressed sneakers and streetwear brand took a 13-year-old wooden skate bowl – kept until then inside a former cinema in Milan – and had it floated to the Venetian lagoon, where the American skater and Olympic bronze-medalist Cory Juneau put on a demonstration with the church of San Giorgio Maggiore in the background. Golden Goose was founded in 2000 by Alessandro Gallo and Francesca Rinaldo. Carlyle acquired it from Ergon Capital in 2017, before another investment firm, Permira, took a majority stake – for an estimated €1.28 billion – this past July. Along with other investors, Permira recently sold a 35 percent stake in Dr. Martens. The current CEO of Golden Goose is Silvio Campara, who has worked for Alexander McQueen and Giorgio Armani. Golden Goose hired him in 2013 as its commercial director. According to Campara, annual revenues amounted to €18 million under a staff of 17 at the time. They have now reached €300 million under a staff of 800 and with an international store count of about 150 doors in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and America. Some 100 of these are directly operated stores. Permira has also appointed Maureen Chiquet, former CEO of Chanel and former executive at L’Oréal and The Gap, as non-executive chairman of the company. Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez and Olivia Palermo have worn the brand’s half-star logo sneakers. For the anniversary Juneau wore a new 10F1 sneaker.

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