Gucci

Gucci, or the House of Gucci, is an Italian haute couture. It was founded by Guccio Gucci in Florence in 1921. Like many other high fashion companies, Gucci began as a small family-owned saddlery and leather goods store. Guccio Gucci was the son of an Italian merchant manufacturing region of the country form the north.

In 1898, Guccio Gucci left Florence in Italy, traveled to Paris and London, where he "won the appreciation of cosmopolitan culture, sophistication and aesthetics." So in 1905 he returned to Italy and started selling saddles and saddlebags, and was quite successful.

Gucci opened his first shop in Florence in the family home in 1921 and quickly built a reputation for quality, hiring the best craftsmen he could find to work in his studio. In 1932, Guccio Gucci created the loafer shoe with a gold fillet. These are the only shoes that have found a place in the New York Museum of Modern Art.