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Gucci

Gucci is an ltalian luxury fashion brand owned by Kering and founded by Guccio Gucci in Florence, Italy in 1921.

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Financial Markets

The Drumroll to Farfetch’s $5 Billion IPO

Over the last year, the fashion ‘unicorn’ has made a series of major announcements designed, in part, to prime the market for a blockbuster IPO set for September 2018.


Fashion Week

For Natalie Massenet, Change Brings Opportunity

The outgoing chairman of the British Fashion Council speaks exclusively to BoF's Tim Blanks about how she changed the organisation, the challenges she faced along the way and her hopes for the future.


Technology

Burberry Teams up with Farfetch in Online Push

Burberry will work closely with Farfetch to expand its distribution globally, giving the British brand access to over 150 countries.


Fashion Week

Coach's Dark Romance

If Coach has been America's house of leather for 76 years, this collection was its evolution into an American luxury brand.


Luxury

Chart of the Week | Blockbuster Gucci Continues to Boost Kering

The blockbuster success of Gucci, which surpassed €6 billion in sales for the first time in 2017, continues to drive Kering's record-breaking growth. Can the conglomerate maintain its momentum?


Financial Markets

Gucci Boosts Kering's Fourth-Quarter Sales Growth

Kering is enjoying its most profitable year on record, as Gucci closed out 2017 with another quarter of runaway growth.


Luxury

The Raf Effect: Measuring Simons' Impact at Calvin Klein

One year after his seminal debut runway show, is the designer's overhaul of the PVH crown jewel working? BoF does the analysis.


Luxury

Mayhoola: Inside the Secretive Qatari Luxury Empire

In less than a decade, the investment vehicle backed by the Qatari royal family has built an impressive stable of luxury brands that now includes Valentino and Balmain. Could it become a rival to LVMH and Kering, or will political unrest hold back its ascent?


Fashion Week

At Bottega Veneta, a Take On New York Boldness

Tomas Maier applied his own peculiar precision to the current appetite for the flagrantly decorative, but the theatricality of the staging didn’t really do much for the clothes.


News & Analysis

Op-Ed | Logomania? Blame the Hipsters

80s nostalgia? Check. Instagram-friendly? Check. But more than anything, luxury brands have turned to logos to justify their prices in a world where consumers crave banal clothing, argues Liroy Choufan.