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...would pay $1,480 for a crocodile handbag? Or $1,150 for a solid gold-mesh belt? Or $500 for a three-piece set of calf luggage? Those who would-and do-constitute the glittering clientele of Gucci, the Florentine leather company that offers fancy quality at fancy prices. Before flying off to wed Aristotle Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy stopped at Gucci's Manhattan shop to select a brown crocodile handbag. Darryl Zanuck had Gucci copy his favorite 30-year-old valise, and Capucine bought a leather dog carrier. Frank Sinatra recently sent his secretary to pick up a pair...
...Symbol. Gucci spares neither time nor money to turn out the products that more and more people want in an increasingly affluent world. Even shopgirls and clerks seem willing to spend beyond their means to own the same kind of luggage or clothes as Jackie or Frankie or Princess Lee. The Gucci shoe, a chunky loafer with a metal snaffle across the instep and a price tag from $31 to $49, has become one of those subtleties of dress that are supposed to separate the Main Line from the wrong side of the tracks. Enriched by demand for such symbols...
Expansion has been paid for entirely from profits. Aldo Gucci, one of the directors, says: "We do not believe in flirting with banks." But the company is beginning to outgrow its own financing. Last week Aldo Gucci revealed that it plans soon to sell some shares of its U.S. operation to the public...
...Temple Fielding's followers [June 6] travel his kind of first class. They may think they're treading in the master's Gucci-shod footsteps, but what it adds up to after the checks are spent is more like fatuous Frommer than fastidious Fielding. Just as Lucius Beebe and his private railway car made few if any sociological waves, so Fielding and his portable martini mixer are headed for inverted snobbism's dubious Hall of Fame. NORMAN READER Amagansett...
Starting at the bottom, her girdle ($15) and bra-slip ($18) are signed by Emilio Pucci, her stockings, a symphony in mesh Vs, by Valentino. On the outside, looking In, there is Gucci's leather-bound shirtwaist dress, interwoven with an all-over pattern of the letter G-with matching luggage, no less. In scarves, conspicuous consumers can go the whole hog with the full names of Rudi Gernreich ($12), Donald Brooks ($22), or Geoffrey Beene ($28), or compromise-as Chester Weinberg did-with a silk strip spelling the first and more esthetic half of his name...