Is dead Leonardo Del Vecchio, the founder of Luxottica. The president of EssilorLuxottica, the largest distribution system in the world of optics, was 87 years old. He was hospitalized at the San Raffaele in Milan. From a difficult childhood he had become one of the richest men in Italy.
He was Cavaliere del Lavoro since 1986, major shareholder of Mediobanca as well as of Generali, he had three degrees and two honorary masters. More than any other Italian he was the symbol of self made man, the man who built himself. And his was his and it is an empire, born from the eyeglass frames created in a small factory in the Belluno area.
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He was born in Milan in 1935. His parents came from Puglia. Poor family, so much so that as a child he had lived in theMartinitt orphanage. “I grew up without a father and in an institution. Growing up without a family is something that cannot be explained if one has not lived it. It marks you ». Here other great Italian entrepreneurs grew up: Edoardo Bianchi and Angelo Rizzoli.
He did the Brera evening school and during the day, at 14, he worked as a boy at Johnson. He then moved to Agordo, in the province of Belluno. Here the mountain community offered land to those who started a business. He was 26 and thus began his Luxottica, first working for third parties, then independently producing those glasses that would become a symbol of Italian design.
The company he created has around 80,000 employees and over 9,000 stores. In 2022, Forbes magazine’s wealth was valued at around $ 27.3 billion. He had been married three times and had six children.
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Source: Vanity Fair
