The Fiat 500 by Gucci editions will arrive at Fiat dealerships in December, along with assorted Gucci-branded travel accessories to ensure a truly chic driving experience.
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Gucci started as a single store in Florence, opened in 1921 by Guccio Gucci, who had developed an eye for luxury while working as a bellboy at the Savoy Hotel in London before the first world war.
These alleged actions by Gucci against Josephine Robinson are reprehensible and made all the worse because lawyers, officers of the court, subjected her to such discriminatory behavior.
The deal calls for expanded production of McQueen's womenswsear and menswear lines by Gucci's manufacturers, a rollout of McQueen boutiques in London (a flagship store on Bond Street), Tokyo and New York (near Stella McCartney's shop by the semi-gentrified meatpacking district) and for Alexander McQueen ready-to-wear collections to be shown in Paris.
In contrast, other recent China-related PR crises such as complaints by former workers at Gucci China that the brand was operating essentially a sweatshop in southern China remained largely localized and were less widely reported in the global English-language press.
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Crucially, Mr De Sole nurtured the talent of Tom Ford, who had joined Gucci in 1990 and had become its overall creative director by 1994.
The former Brinks Hotel, bombed by the Vietcong in 1964, now houses a shopping mall with a Gucci store.
It was auctioneer Simon de Pury on the board of Gucci at the time who prompted their first foray into collecting by steering them toward modern Italian artists.
Together they transformed the company, increasing its revenues by 32% a year between 1994 and 2002, and forming the Gucci Group with the acquisition of labels such as Yves Saint Laurent, Boucheron, Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen.
By focusing on the rappers, producers and label owners including interviews with Lil Wayne, Gucci Mane, Big Boi, Scarface, Luke Campbell and other pioneers Westhoff makes the case for the cultural significance of southern hip-hop not only on its own, but as a driving force behind the elements of hip-hop currently working their way into mainstream pop music.
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They are joined by pioneering Chinese supermodel Du Juan and relative newcomer Sui He, all of them in different jewel tone Gucci frocks.
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