It began when he was just a teenager employed as a hotel worker in Paris and London. An immigrant worker at the time, Gucci was impressed by the hotel’s customer’s luxury luggage. After a spate working abroad in these positions, Gucci returned home and took advantage of the fine materials and talented craftsmen of his home country opening his own shop.
However, it wasn’t until Tom Ford became head executive of Gucci in 1990 that a whole host of new products were developed by the company including colognes and perfumes, cosmetics and watches and the exceedingly popular Gucci sunglasses. Gucci has since become a mainstay in celebrity culture with stars both wearing and actively promoting the brand whether by wearing, by mouth or in their music.
