A premier Italian leather goods house in the tradition of the master leather craftsmen of the Veneto, Bottega Veneta was founded in 1966 in Vicenza by Vittorio Moltedo and his wife Laura. Noted for their expensive woven leather handbags in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as fine travel and small leather goods, today the company is considered to be a superpremium luxury fashion force.