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Beginning life as a workshop producing riding boots gucci belt purse and hand luggage this famous leather goods and fashion accessories firm originated as a leather goods workshop in Florence in 1904. Founded by Guccio Gucci, the first huge belt buckle shop opened in 1922. His son, Aldo, moved to New York in 1953 and succeeded in creating new markets for the company’s products, attracting the attention of celebrities such as gucci mens belts Audrey Hepburn, Jackie Kennedy, Grace Kelly, and Elizabeth Taylor. In the 1960s the double ‘G’ trademark, designed by Aldo’s son Paolo, soon became a byword for high fashion in both the USA and Europe. gucci belt purse However, following 1977 Paolo’s rise to louis vuitton mens belts vice-presidency and managing directorships of Gucci Shops Inc. and Gucci Parfums of America, a series of vexatious hermes belts for men family litigations and tax irregularities eventually led louis vuitton belts for men to the selling of 50 per cent of the company’s shares to the Investcorp, an Arab investment bank. After a further period of family in-fighting during the 1980s the Guccis finally lost control of the company to Investcorp in 1994. Since then there sterling silver belts has been significant investment in design and advertising and the company name has again been successful in the international market place.

Became retailer of accessories, 1923; Gucci shops gucci belts for men opened in Florence, 1923; boutiques open in Rome, 1938; firm renamed Societá Anonima Guccio Gucci, 1939; stores opened in Milan, 1951; diamond belt buckle ring renamed Guccio Gucci Srl, 1945; New York boutique opened, 1953; opened in Paris, 1963; shop opened in Hong Kong silver leather belts and Gucci Parfums formed, gucci belt purse 1975 (renamed Gucci Parfums SpA, 1982); company renamed Guccio Gucci SpA, 1982; appointed Dawn Mello creative director, 1989; Tom Ford joined company, 1990; acquired by hermes mens belts Investcorp, 1993; Mello departed and Ford named creative director, 1994; deaths of Mauritzio gucci belt purse and Paolo Gucci, 1995; listed on the NYSE, 1995; rival Prada bought stake, 1998; sold stake to LVMH, 1999; Pinault Printemps Redoute acquired major stake and fought off LVMH, 1999; spinning belt buckle Alexander McQueen defected from LVMH to Gucci, 2000; hired Stella McCartney to create her own line, 2000; designer Nicolas Ghesquiére came to firm with acquisition of Balenciaga, 2001.