Marco Neroni
Marco Neroni is Chief Brand Officer at Golden Goose, Reporting directly to the CEO Silvio Campara. He joined the Company in 2018 as Footwear Head Designer with the aim of nurturing the Culture of Imperfect sneakers that turned the Brand from a Venetian Dream to a Global Community.
Marco began his professional career in 2013 in Dirk Bikkembergs in the Footwear Design Department and then moved to Tod’s where he designed the sneakers of Hogan Brand. He has spent 5 years in the Marche area (Italy) exploring the roots of craftmanship and the visceral love of shoemaking. He pursued the dream he had since a little kid, in his own words “Designing kicks has never been a job, it is a connection to the soul of my imagination”. He was theN appointed as Chief Brand Officer in Golden in 2023.
Born in 1990, Marco graduated in Fashion Design at Politecnico di Milano University in Milan, Italy.
What did you dream about becoming when you were a child? What part of Marco today is still linked to that dream?
I’ve never felt an end of my childhood dreams era, the kid who was there in his room sketching his ideas on paper scraps surrounded by the posters of his idols Dunking, rapping, boxing etc; all of that is still here alive, I assume my dreams have always been the plot of the movie I am living.
What are the personal characteristics that those willing to work for Golden should have?
We are always looking for people who dream-alike us. There is no ideal path to be judged as worth or worth-less. We are creating something bigger than us, something that will survive all our ideas, creations and sneakers. How BIG would your dreams be if you knew that you would live forever?
We are driven by this pursuit every day.
Your favorite Golden sneaker model and why
As a Sneaker-Head, somehow turned to be a designer, I always tend to love the next project we are working on as most as anyone previous, banal answer but I tend to put a load of feelings and expectations in whatever I dream of that if I am not in love with it, probably it’s not the right project to develop. Love is the number one ingredient of our sneakers.