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In 1921, he founded the House of Gucci in Florence [7] [8] as a small family-owned leather shop. [1] He began selling saddles, leather bags and other accessories to horsemen in the 1920s. [ 4 ] During the 1930s League of Nations sanctions on Italy, which led to leather shortages, he innovated by developing a specially-woven hemp fabric from Naples.
Alexandra Gucci Zarini (born 1985) is the founder of the purpose-driven luxury fashion house AGCF, [1] [2] [3] a children's advocate and founder of the Alexandra Gucci Children's Foundation. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] She is the daughter of Patricia Gucci , the granddaughter of Aldo Gucci , and great-granddaughter of Guccio Gucci , and a member and heiress of ...
She is the daughter of Aldo Gucci, the patriarch of the Gucci fashion empire, and Bruna Palombo; the two met when Bruna was working at the Gucci flagship store in Rome. [2] He was still married to the mother of his three sons, and adultery was illegal in Italy, so they lived in England. [3] They married when Patricia was twenty-four years old.
Wade, Gucci continues to show its support for women’s reproductive rights. The luxury brand issued a statement Sunday that said, “When Gucci founded the global Chime for Change campaign in ...
Gucci hired Tom Ford as its new creative director and was infamously in the news following the killing of its former head, Maurizio Gucci. Around the same time, LVMH’s CEO Bernard Arnault was ...
The Gucci coat-of-arms. Guccio Gucci; his eldest living biological son, Aldo Gucci; Aldo Gucci's sons, Giorgio Gucci, Paolo Gucci, and Roberto Gucci; and grandson Uberto Gucci claimed the right to use an inherited, ancestral coat of arms after the Kingdom of Italy, which was ruled by the House of Savoy, transitioned to the Italian Republic in 1946.
In 1994, she officially divorced Gucci. As part of the divorce settlement, Gucci agreed to pay Patrizia an annual alimony of $1.47 million. [15] By law, she was no longer allowed to use the Gucci surname, but she continued to do so anyway, stating, "I still feel like a Gucci – in fact, the most Gucci of them all." [16] [17] [18]
The Women's University of Science and Technology, which is the first all-women's university in Kenya, allows women to access higher education and entrepreneurial training. [32] These programs have empowered women to create small to medium-size enterprises, such as tailoring and bead-making.