Innovative and unmistakable stylistic solutions are the key to interpreting the new Gucci spectacle and sunglass proposals, developed with exclusive lines, colours and details.
The butterfly shape is the prevailing theme of the two fashion models. The broad line combines with mirrored and shaded lenses, both clear and with more marked tints.
The GG logo, representing the symbol of the Florentine house, is stamped in the lenses in an already existing drop model which was a best-seller last season.
An absolute novelty is the tiny and light metal model, almost reading glasses, featuring a straight bridge and nose-pieces hooking in an original way to the frame.
Reduced dimensions also for a series of spectacle models in metal, modulating in various shapes and numerous colours.
The return of the butterfly-shape is the prevailing theme of many proposals in slender steel, both in the bound and open versions, also in acetate the acetate models. The design is expressed in the sleek and shaped arms, in the refined details and in the beautiful colours, ranging from lilac, red, military green to streaked Havana and amber for the acetate proposals with bright shades and shiny for those in metal.

 The son of a straw hat-maker from Florence, Guccio Gucci learned to appreciate the finest of luxurygoods while working at London’s famous Savoy Hotel. In 1921 he opened the first Gucci store: a small leathergoods shop on a side street, tantalizingly close to the sumptuous homes of Florence’s most elegant families. Over the next eighty years, the saga of Gucci unfolded on an international stage, with as dynamic and volatile a cast as that of any film.

   Sara Gay Forden’s The House of Gucci takes us through three generations of a family dynasty—from Guccio, who pitted his four sons against each other in the battle for control of the family business, to his son Aldo, who brought Gucci to America in the 1950s and made the family name synonymous with high-class chic, to Aldo’s nephew Maurizio, who wrested control of the faltering Gucci empire from his domineering uncle only to see his ambitious dreams crumble through overspending and mismanagement. The book opens with Maurizio’s murder in 1995, which his ex-wife, Patrizia Reggiani, was later convicted of arranging. This cold-blooded crime provides a riveting center to Forden’s carefully crafted and researched narrative.

   Charming and charismatic, Maurizio was the last scion of the Gucci family to control the company: it was bought by Investcorp and Morgan Stanley in 1993 and is now a publicly owned company run by CEO Domenico De Sole and creative director Tom Ford. From signature loafers and bamboo-handled handbags (still among the company’s best-selling items) to the sexy, irreverent clothes and accessories designed by the Texas-born Ford, Gucci has outfitted some of the twentieth century’s most glamorous celebrities, from Grace Kelly, Sophia Loren, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to Gwyneth Paltrow and Madonna. Weaving together the company’s intricate business history with insightful coverage of its headline-making personal conflicts, Forden gives us an inside look into a fascinating world of high fashion and high drama, family-style