Flashback on Gucci
Sunday, January 17th, 2010
Florence, Italy has been a favorite spot for artists even way back the the Renaissance period. Right now, it has a population of one and a half million people and among them is the surviving clan of Guccio Gucci.
Guccio Gucci was the founder of Gucci which began in the trade in 1921. At an early age, he had traveled to Europe and London and, as a connoisseur for beauty and elegance, went home to Florence and started his own leather goods shop in 1906. It was his talent for craftsmanship that expanded his workshop and transformed the ordinary saddlery to an exquisite producer other leather products such as handbags. By 1938 he opened a store in Rome and took it upon himself to personally design many of his products. In 1947, the first leather handbag with a bamboo handle was created.
The one-man business soon became a family business when his sons joined the company. In 1951 the they opened a shop in Milan and, in two years, branched out in the United States of America and put up a Manhattan store. It was then that Gucci became one of the pioneers of Italian design in the US.
Guccio Gucci died in 1953 and his sons took over the highly successful company by opening stores in famous countries like Paris, England, and Tokyo. The 1960’s brought more fame to the company with famous celebrities Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy wearing their bags and making the name one of the most sought after even in the world of modern-day fashionistas.
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