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WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN SO FAR AT GUCCI THAT YOU LIKED...
...visited our archives in Milan. I saw what appeared to be old newspapers, so I took a look and landed on an advertisement by [Gucci founder] Guccio Gucci. It said, "When the quality is still remembered, the price will be long forgotten." This is the essence of what we want...
...extravagant in recent history, with fur trim and crystal beading showing up on every tweed coat and charmeuse evening dress. Thanks to the weak dollar against the euro, prices for these clothes are up a whopping 20%, but so are sales. Houses like Hermes, Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior and Gucci have all reported double-digit increases in the second quarter...
Optimism seeped into the clothes themselves in July at the spring 2005 menswear shows, where blazing colors drenched the runways in pinks, yellows and greens. Gucci sent out tops patterned with butterflies; flowers cropped up on shirts and jeans at Dolce & Gabbana and Calvin Klein, among others. Glimmers of hope are also discernible at the cash register. In the past six months, sales have risen 5.6%, the first increase in the sector in 3 1/2 years, according to Marshal Cohen of NPDFashion World, which tracks the apparel industry...
...time to go without buying new clothes (especially since as men age, they also grow, generally going up a size every two years after the age of 35). But it is also being driven in some measure by a group of men heeding another trend from the collections. At Gucci, for example, menswear designer John Ray presented brocade jackets and ornate tunics adorned with beads and coins. At Miu Miu, coats dripped with small mirrors. For this winter, Hedi Slimane at Christian Dior Homme is offering floor-length kilts. A similar sense of indulgence, if not flamboyance, was evoked...