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Guccio Gucci was born in Florence, Tuscany on 26 March 1881. [1] He was the son of Tuscan parents, Gabriello Gucci, a leather craftsman from San Miniato, and Elena Santini, from Lastra a Signa. [2] [3] As a teenager, in 1899, Guccio Gucci worked at the Savoy Hotel in London.
He was the chief designer of Gucci in the late 1960s. In 1978, his father named him the vice-president of Gucci. [3] In 1980, Paolo secretly launched his own business using the Gucci name without telling his father, nor his uncle Rodolfo. When they found out, they were both infuriated and fired him from Gucci in September 1980.
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The house of Gucci was founded in 1921. From there, its history—as depicted in a silly movie starring Lady Gaga and Adam Driver a few years ago—went a bit like this: The company flourished ...
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 ...
Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America. New York: Random House. Formisano, Luciano (1992). Letters from a New World: Amerigo Vespucci's Discovery of America. New York: Marsilio. ISBN 0941419622. King, Robert J. (2022). "The Antipodes on Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 World Map". The Globe (91): 43– 60. ProQuest 2666975853 – via ProQuest.
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In 1972, Gucci married Patrizia Reggiani, with whom he had two daughters, Alessandra and Allegra. [15] Alessandra Gucci was born on 28 June 1976, and Allegra Gucci was born on 27 January 1981. [16] Maurizio's father, Rodolfo Gucci, originally did not approve of their marriage, calling Patrizia "a social climber who has nothing in mind but money."