Leather - Gucci

Leather- Gucci

The travails of being in a family business

 

 

 I should know in as much that I was a third generation sufferer, when cousins have different views as to where the business should head having joined the business straight from school . They not  venturing out into a non family world where there's alternative and possibly different and much more innovative ways of doing things without the autocratic control of every move and decision. My brother and I were trained and worked in totally different fields to the family business with  thankfully better insights and methods. we joined, they left, we survived and they morphed and in the main got out of the sector becoming almost unemployable having never worked for anybody else  - is there a lesson in all this?

 

 

 

 

 

Take the GUCCI family from Florence. If you read the history of this super talented family , the epitome of craftsmanship, style,design and use of leather one could write books about just these aspects alone.

 

 

However if you couple all these skills with the intrigues of inter family squabbles, distractions and  misdemeanours you can keep the gossip columns fresh on a regular basis and spawn the writing of books and the scripts for films.

Just think, in brevity, to what has happened to the Gucci family and where they are today

Tax evasion - jail - contract killers - jail for  hiring the hit men -  verge of financial collapse - investment funds -  ownership transferring to PPR ( Pinault Printemps Redoute)  - hiring of  Dominico de Sol  -   hiring of Tom Ford 

 

       The brand extension of the now worldwide brand GUCCI from 'all things leather' to all areas of 

FASHION, FASHION ACCESSORIES, FRAGRANCE, EYEWEAR WATCHES and many more

In this blog we show a very small sample from our archives of some GUCCI shoe pics and adverts

All images used on the Leslie Creasey Blog are from my hand clipped archive documenting 35 years of Style and Design media.  For all enquiries please contact leslie@charismatic-brands.com.