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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. [ 4][ 5] Little is known about his early life circumstances and what ...
Alexander McQueen. Lee Alexander McQueen CBE (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier. [ 2] He founded his own Alexander McQueen label in 1992, and was chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001. [ 2] His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2001 and ...
Alessandro Michele ( Italian pronunciation: [miˈkɛːle]; born 25 November 1972) is an Italian fashion designer and creative director of Valentino. [ 1] He grew to international recognition as the creative director of Gucci, the Italian fashion luxury house where he worked from 2002 to 2022. [ 2] Known for his maximalist designs, Alessandro ...
Ridley Scott’s film offers a dramatized version of the real-life events surrounding the murder of Maurizio Gucci, who was the head of the Gucci fashion house in the ’90s and was the grandson ...
This is a list of notable fashion designers sorted by nationality. It includes designers of haute couture and ready-to-wear. For haute couture only, see the list of grands couturiers. For footwear designers, see the list of footwear designers.
Patrizia Gucci. Patrizia Yvonne Gucci is an Italian painter, author, and fashion designer. She is the great-granddaughter of Guccio Gucci, the founder of the fashion house Gucci, and the daughter of Paolo Gucci, [1] who was the chief designer for the family company. She herself worked in the public relations department of the family company for ...
Patricia Gucci (cousin) Maurizio Gucci (26 September 1948 – 27 March 1995) was an Italian businessman and the one-time head of the Gucci fashion house. He was the son of actor Rodolfo Gucci, and grandson of the company's founder Guccio Gucci. On 27 March 1995 he was assassinated by a hitman hired by his former wife Patrizia Reggiani .
Karl Otto Lagerfeld ( German pronunciation: [kaʁl ˈʔɔtoː ˈlaːɡɐˌfɛlt] ⓘ; 10 September 1933 – 19 February 2019) was a German fashion designer. Lagerfeld began his career in fashion in the 1950s, working for several top fashion houses including Balmain, Patou, and Chloé before joining Chanel in 1983. As the creative director of ...