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His Bluebird company has a new joint venture with Gucci to produce and promote his label.
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Saudi Arabia now sends students on scholarships to Chinese universities, and some rich Saudis, more used to shopping for Gucci in New York or London, are heading to once-obscure Chinese cities to buy furniture.
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Zhou Ting, director of the Fortune Character Research Center, told the daily that Gucci may even stop opening new stores.
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That was apparently the touch of Tom Ford, an American who has breathed new life and a rock-star sexiness into Gucci's image since he became its chief designer in the early 1990s.
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Ms Cooper adds that because New Zealanders are geographically remote and have little exposure to mass labels, like Gucci and the Gap, designers ignore the rules.
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When Investcorp floated the company on the Amsterdam and New York exchanges in 1995 and 1996, Mr De Sole was at last able to run Gucci properly.
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