Word: ete
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...iffy weather and impending rain don't bother Diego Della Valle, 52. As the president and CEO of Tod's S.p.A., he's used to climbing into his silver twin-engine Dolphin helicopter after lunch at Villa Brancadoro?his 17th century hilltop residence in the town of Casette d'Ete, where he lives with his wife Barbara Pistilli and their son Filippo, 8?and zipping over to Ancona, where he usually boards his Falcon 2000 and jets off to Paris or New York City or maybe even Tokyo...
...company, as do two cousins.) But you won't see Diego hand-stitching the driving shoes himself. Many of the families in his factory have been with the company for several generations, at least since Dorino, Diego and Andrea's father, set up shop in Casette d'Ete in the 1940s and later began manufacturing shoes for private-label department-store brands in addition to designers like Calvin Klein and Azzedine Alaïa. Dorino's father Filippo was a local cobbler whose workbench still sits in a corner on the second floor of the factory as a kind of reminder...