Gucci accessories: Gucci shoes or Gucci handbags

Added: 05/27/2006

It would not be an exaggeration if we say that the name of Gucci brand is famous all around the world. The Gucci brand name was acknowledged to be the most frequently mentioned brand name in the world. People simply love to wear Gucci's clothes or accessories. From this article you will find out more about Gucci brands and such Gucci accessories as shoes and handbags. Read on.

The Gucci Group Company is famous for its personal use luxury products, such as Gucci shoes or Gucci handbags, Gucci ready-to-wear or Gucci watches, Gucci perfumes or Gucci skin care products. The history of Gucci brand goes back to 1921. This company was founded by an Italian merchant Guccio Gucci in Florence. This Global Company manufactures and sells its products through the fully owned network of boutiques or through duty-free boutiques and leading department and specialty stores in many different countries and regions of the world. Under the Gucci Group umbrella there are such brands as Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, YSL Beaute, Boucheron, Sergio Rossi, Bedat & Co., Roger & Gallet, Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney and Balenciaga. All of them are either fully or partially owned by the Gucci group.

Here is a bit more precise information on Gucci group brands and Gucci's ownership portion in them. In the area of fashion the Gucci group owns several Gucci closes, Gucci shoes, Gucci perfume and watches brands. Those are Gucci one hundred percent share of ownership; Yves Saint Laurent one hundred percent, also the perfume brand one hundred percent and the watches brand one hundred percent of ownership; Sergio Rossi seventy percent; Bottega Veneta seventy eight point five percent; Alexander McQueen fifty one, also the perfume brand one hundred percent; Stella McCartney fifty percent, also the perfume brand one hundred percent; Balenciaga ninety one percent. In the perfume business the Gucci group owns the following brands: Roger & Gallet; Boucheron (also jewelry and watches); Ermenegildo Zegna; Oscar de la Renta; Van Cleef & Arpels and Fendi. Finally, in the watch business the Gucci group owns eighty five percent of Bedat & Co brand.

After listing all those brands, covered by the umbrella of Gucci Group, it would not be an exaggeration to say that people know and love Gucci brand and all its products all over the world. The name of Gucci is strongly associated with luxury, highest quality of products and with fashion and style. Women in many countries of the world simply love to possess and wear Gucci clothes and accessories, such as Gucci shoes or handbags, though Gucci shoes are not as passionately admired as Manolo Blahnik or Jimmy Choos. Nevertheless, Gucci shoes are considered to be a very stylish and fashionable acquisition by many people, since these accessories can add a touch of style and elegance to any special or every day attire.

What conecrns Gucci handbags, his first famous bamboo bag Gucci has created in the year of 1947. This handbag design became very popular and made famous not only the Gucci House name, buy also its first brand symbol: striped webbing derived from saddle girth. After opening its first boutique in New York, Gucci shoes and handbags were chosen and worn by such Hollywood stars Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn and Peter Sellers. However, the biggest popularity was brough to Gucci accessories in America by its First Lady Jackie Kennedy. She popularized Gucci handbags, in particular one, which bears the name of "Jackie O." bag till the present time.

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