Sara Gay FordenHouse Of Gucci: A Sensational Story Of Murder, Madness, Glamour, And Greed

I am not a big fan of this kind of books. Bought it for the friend, she was really looking forward to read it.

実際に起こった話なので興味深いです

The package was very terrible. The pages were kind of bent, but we can fix that! Got this book for my grandma because she wanted to read this forever! But I wish that the book pages wasn’t bent

Loved the way it was written

I opted for an audible version. Too much jargon for my liking.

This is a pretty long book that tells the whole story of the Gucci fashion empire. Beginning as a “Florentine mom-and-pop handbag shop” and growing to a global fashion brand name with over a billion dollars in sales of all kinds of leather goods, watches, and glasses in the late 1990s. A lot of it describes the brilliant approach to retail and craftsmanship among Gucci family members but there is also a lot of feuding and antics as the Guccis seemingly never got along for any length of time. Eventually they got involved with investors and what had been a family business for several generations ended up a public company with a lawyer, not a leather craftsman, for a CEO and Tom Ford designing red-hot fashions on the runways of Paris, Milan, and New York City. It’s just after that when the tawdry murder takes place that gives this book it’s eye-catching subtitle. Overall this is an interesting book that really takes an epic look at the way the fashion industry has evolved throughout the twentieth century, and there's quite a few digressions that are also of interest. Forden has done a ton of research, in particular interviewing seemingly pretty much everyone who was there from the family business era up through the more corporate times. The product of that research is a book about a fashion world legend packed with interesting characters.