Word: cagliarini
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...Nuti, general manager of Ferragamo. "We seldom see anyone else." Silversmith Ugo Buccellati is happiest when his sales force entertains only two customers a day. Gucci, which has two boutiques on the same block, spurns lunch-hour shoppers by simply closing for lunch-an Italian tradition that Manager Antonio Cagliarini explains is "good for the employees and for our type of business. Our regular customers know we're closed, and that's it, finito...
...home. "Some of the families, they're running away from Italy while they can still get out," says Ginori Director Franz M. Aliquo. But most of the shopkeepers admit to a more direct motivation. "New York is the most important showcase in the world," says Gucci's Cagliarini. Aliquo of Ginori says: "We decided to come because of the prestige, just to say we had a branch on Fifth Avenue." "Angelo Rizzoli just wanted a bookshop on Fifth Avenue," says Robert Supree. "With his dough [an Italian publishing empire with $500 million annual sales], he couldn...
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