GUCCIO GUCCI, THE ELEGANCE OF TUSCAN DESIGNERS

Guccio Gucci, 1940

Today, The Grandma has joined to Claire Fontaine, Tina Picotes and Tonyi Tamaki. They have gone shopping along one of the most beautiful avenues of Barcelona, Passeig de Gràcia, where all expensive boutiques are found.

The Grandma has wanted to buy a new Gucci handbag for her to commemorate the anniversary of his designer, Guccio Gucci, the founder of the world-renowned fashion brand Gucci, who was born on a day like today in 1881.

Before going out, The Grandma has studied a new lesson of her Intermediate Language Practice manual (Grammar 45).

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Guccio Gucci (26 March 1881-2 January 1953) was a Tuscan businessman and fashion designer, the founder of The Fashion House of Gucci.

Gucci was born in Florence, Tuscany, the son of a Tuscan leather craftsman from the country's central manufacturing region.

As a teenager in the early 1900s, Guccio Gucci was a lift boy at the Savoy Hotel in London. Inspired by the elegant upper class guests and by luggage companies such as H.J. Cave & Sons, he returned to Florence and started making travel bags and accessories.

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He founded the House of Gucci in Florence in 1921 as a small family-owned leather saddlery shop. He began selling leather bags to horsemen in the 1920s. As a young man, he rapidly built a reputation for quality, hiring the best craftsmen he could find to work in his atelier.

In 1938, Gucci expanded his business to Rome. Soon his one-man business turned into a family business, when his sons Aldo, Vasco, Ugo and Rodolfo, former actor, joined the company.

In 1951, Gucci opened their store in Milan and two years later, the company expanded overseas with the opening of the Manhattan store.

Gucci and his wife, Aida Calvelli, had six children. His sons, Vasco, Aldo, Ugo and Rodolfo, held prominent roles in his company. In his final years, he lived near Rusper, West Sussex, England.

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Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.

Aldo Gucci

As you have seen, The Grandma's post is too short today. The Grandma wants to protest and express her rejection to Article 13 approved by the European Union, an article that delimitates Internet as a free space where you can share contents. This is a clear act of censorship that we mustn't accept.

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