New culinary destination: Gucci opens lavish eatery

Gucci’s 1921 Gucci Café & Restaurant 0pens in Shanghai with bruschetta and spaghetti. Shanghai is the perfect city to pair food and fashion. Gucci, one of the world’s most famous luxury fashion labels, unveiled its lavish eatery called “1921 Gucci Café” inside the IAPM luxury shopping centre, one of Shanghai’s most popular commercial avenues. The announcement … Read more

The Gucci Side of Brazil

The Gucci Museo crossed the ocean to bring Gucci Museo Forever Now Exhibition to São Paulo. Frida Giannini, Toni Garrn, Susan Neves, Camilla Belle and a host of São Paulo’s most stylish crowd turned out for the opening night of Gucci’s new “Forever Now” archive exhibit at the third floor of the JK Iguatemi mall. … Read more

Lapo Elkann designs a men’s clothing capsule collection for Gucci

Lapo’s wardrobe at Gucci During Milan Men’s Fashion Week in June, Gucci intends to launch a men’s clothing capsule collection created in collaboration with Italian industrialist and creative entrepreneur Lapo Elkann. Gucci’s creative director, Frida Giannini and the Italian business man, who is not a newcomer to fashion, came up with 27 silhouettes (23 for … Read more

Cristóbal Balenciaga and Comme des Garçons in exhibition

“Les Docks, Cité de la Mode et du Design” in Paris opened a new part of their public spaces with the simultaneous presentation of two exhibitions: one devoted to Rei Kawakubo & Comme des Garçons, the other to Cristóbal Balenciaga. Cristóbal Balenciaga exhibition, Fashion Collector In homage to the master of couture (1895-1972) and the 40th … Read more

Gucci Museum in Florence: An Interview With Frida Giannini

Suzy Menkes at Gucci Museo Suzy Menkes, the fashion editor of The International Herald Tribune, speaks with Frida Giannini, the creative director of Gucci, as it celebrates its 90th anniversary with the new museum in Florence (inaugurated in September 2011). Inside the sumptuous confines of the 14th-century Palazzo della Mercanzia, Gucci‘s famed “bamboo” handbags owned … Read more

Gucci, which celebrates the 90th birthday, inaugurated its Museum in Florence

Italian luxury house GUCCI, which celebrates its 90th birthday this year, will officially inaugurate its Museum in Florence on September 26th. It will be located at Palazzo Mercantazzia, in Piazza della Signoria. The ceremony will be marked by a lavish event attended by celebrities such as Madonna and Jennifer Lopez. The Gucci Museum covers 1,700 … Read more