Dolce & Gabbana

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Dolce & Gabbana Srl

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legal form Società a responsabilità limitata
founding 1985
Seat Milan , ItalyItalyItaly 
management
  • Domenico Dolce, CEO
  • Stefano Gabbana, CEO
  • Alfonso Dolce, CEO
Number of employees 4,547 (2014)
sales EUR 1.05 billion (2014)
Branch Fashion , luxury goods
Website www.dolcegabbana.it

The Dolce & Gabbana Srl [doltʃe e ɡabbaːna] is an Italian fashion company based in Milan .

The company was founded in 1985 by the two fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana in Legnano near Milan.

Dolce & Gabbana store in Miami

history

Domenico Dolce was born on August 13, 1958 in Polizzi Generosa, Sicily . Stefano Gabbana was born in Milan on November 14, 1962. Dolce was already designing and tailoring his own clothes at the age of six. The two first met over the phone when Dolce applied for a job at the Gabbana fashion house. Gabbana recognized the talent in Dolce and took him under his wing after the employment. He introduced him to the typical processes in a fashion house and showed him how new designs are created. A short time later, Gabbana had to take on the mandatory 18-month military service , but immediately after his return in 1982, the two founded a joint design consultancy.

The designer duo's first collection was presented alongside five other new Italian labels at the Milan Fashion Week in October 1985 . She was called Real Women . The next collection appeared in 1986 and the first shop was opened in the same year. In 1987 they presented their own range of knitwear and in 1989 the product range was expanded to include underwear and swimwear. In 1990 they presented their first collection for men. In 1991, it received the Woolmark Award as the most innovative men's collection of the year.

They found their first international recognition when Madonna wore a gem-studded corset and jacket by Dolce & Gabbana at her premiere of Truth or Dare : In Bed with Madonna at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990. In 1993, the duo designed more together with Madonna than 1,500 costumes for their international tour Girlie Show to promote their album Erotica from 1992. In 1994 the company launched the second key product line - D&G, which appeals to a younger target group.

In the 1990s, the duo expanded their market position after Dolce & Gabbana signed a deal with the Kashiyama Group in 1989 and opened the first boutique in Japan. The first women's perfume called “Dolce & Gabbana Parfum” was introduced in 1992 and in 1993 received an award from the Perfume Academy as the best women's fragrance of the year. The first men's fragrance, “Dolce & Gabbana pour Homme”, was named the best men's fragrance of the year by the same academy in 1995.

In further collaboration with Madonna, Dolce & Gabbana designed costumes for the international Drowned World Tour in 2001, which promoted the 2000 album Music . They also designed the costumes for Missy Elliott , Beyoncé and Mary J. Blige's international tours . In the 2000s, the duo created many more costumes for various artists such as B. for the tour Showgirl Homecoming by Kylie Minogue . Madonna was also part of the Dolce & Gabbana advertising campaigns in 2010. In 2012, D&G was merged with Dolce & Gabbana to strengthen the core product line. A 2005 article by The New Yorker said: "Dolce and Gabbana will be in the 2000s what Prada was in the 1990s and Armani in the 1980s - gli stilisti whose sensibility has shaped a whole decade." In 1997 Dolce & Gabbana also received personal awards and were named Designer of the Year by FHM . In 2003 GQ Magazine named Dolce & Gabbana one of the "Men of the Year". The following year, readers of the British Elle Dolce & Gabbana voted for the best international designers of 2004 at the Elle Style Awards. In a tax proceeding, Italian fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were sentenced to 20 months suspended prison sentence in June 2013. In addition, the fashion duo had to pay a fine of 500,000 euros to the state.

Branding

Dolce & Gabbana jeans

Dolce & Gabbana creates, produces and sells clothing , leather goods , shoes and accessories for women and men under various clothing lines :

  • Dolce & Gabbana
    high-priced main line, for women since 1985, for men since 1990. Specializes in luxury designer items, appears more formal and "timeless" and reflects long-term trends and the changing seasons. Sunglasses, glasses frames, handbags, watches and make-up are also offered under this label.
  • Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda
    Handmade couture fashion for women in the top price segment, since 2012
  • D & G
    youthful diffusion line in the upper mid-price segment, from 1994 until 2005 Ittierre as license awarded, set with the summer 2012 and integrated into the main line
  • D&G junior
    children's collection since 2001

The bridal collection launched in 1992 was discontinued in 1998. From 1994 to 1999 there was also a collection for home articles, Dolce & Gabbana Home Collection . With the main line Dolce & Gabbana and the second line D&G , the company is present at the four times a year women's and men's fashion shows at the Milan Fashion Weeks.

Dolce & Gabbana Perfume Intenso

In addition, the company also offers a perfume (since 1992) and eyewear line (since 1995) as well as a watch (since 2000) and jewelry collection and a cosmetics line (since 2008). Scarlett Johansson was won as the new face for the cosmetic line's advertising campaign. Production and sales are carried out here via license partners. The first women's perfume, Dolce & Gabbana parfum , was launched in 1992, the first men's perfume, Dolce & Gabbana pour homme , in 1994.

D&G Golden Sneakers

At the end of 2011, Dolce & Gabbana presented the first 80-piece jewelry collection, which includes rosaries set with precious stones, bracelets with pendants, necklaces and other pieces.

Partnerships

In a co-branding project with Motorola , special versions of the Motorola RAZR have also been marketed since 2005 . In the 2006/2007 financial year, these contributed around an eighth of the total sales revenue of Dolce & Gabbana with around 200 million euros.

In 2009, the company teamed up with Sony Ericsson to produce a special version of the Jalou mobile phone with details made of 24 carat gold. The logo of the designer label was also found on this device.

From 1990 to 1994 there was a contract with the Italian women's fashion label Genny , which also included the Byblos brand , on the design of the Genny Complice line .

In 1999 the company designed the cloakroom for Whitney Houston and her world tour , in 2000 that of Madonna in her music video Music and in 2002 for Kylie Minogue and her European tour Fever and in 2006 for her Showgirl Homecoming Tour in Australia . In 2010 the renowned designers brought out the MDG sunglasses collection in collaboration with Madonna.

For the Italian market, there was a collaboration with Citroën in 2004 regarding the design of special models of the C3 and C3 Pluriel vehicles . In 2010, another partnership with Martini resulted in a "Gold Edition" of the famous vermouth.

From 2004 to 2017, the company also provided the team of the Italian soccer club AC Milan and the Italian national soccer team with clothing. In 2006 the Dolce & Gabbana GOLD restaurant with café, cocktail bar, bistro and restaurant was opened in Milan.

Matthew McConaughey wore a white Dolce & Gabbana tuxedo at the 2014 Academy Awards .

Companies

At the end of March 2015, the group had a total of 4,547 employees and had its own sales network with 323 sales outlets and 16 factory outlets worldwide . The production sites for the self-made line are Legnano near Milan and Incisa in Val d'Arno near Florence . Parts of the product portfolio are now also manufactured in other countries such as Morocco or Indonesia . In late March 2015 ended the fiscal year 2014/2015, the Group generated consolidated sales of 1.055 billion euros . There are Dolce & Gabbana, D&G and D&G junior boutiques around the world .

The company's website went online in 2000; In 2009 the online shop of the second line D&G was opened.

Books by Dolce & Gabbana

Dolce & Gabbana have not only made a name for themselves in fashion design, but have also contributed to nearly two dozen books that contain photographic stories as well as collections of their own work. Some Books:

  1. 10 Anni Dolce & Gabbana
  2. Hollywood
  3. Calcio
  4. Music
  5. 20 Years Dolce & Gabbana
  6. Family
  7. David Gandy

Web links

Commons : Dolce & Gabbana  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Stefano Gabbana  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Profilio di Gruppo. Dolce & Gabbana Srl, accessed February 12, 2016 .
  2. ^ A b Hands and Eyes - The New Yorker. In: newyorker.com. March 14, 2005, accessed December 28, 2014 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Brenda Polan: The Great Fashion Designers. Bloomsbury Academic, 2009, ISBN 978-1-84788-227-1 , p. 206. Limited preview in Google Book Search
  4. ^ A b Valerie Steele: The Berg Companion to Fashion. Bloomsbury Academic, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84788-592-0 , p. 224. Limited preview in Google Book Search
  5. ↑ a b Dolce & Gabbana - Biography on Bio. (No longer available online.) In: thebiographychannel.co.uk. Archived from the original on August 15, 2012 ; accessed on December 28, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thebiographychannel.co.uk
  6. ↑ a b c Dolce & Gabbana - Vogue. In: vogue.com. December 9, 2014, accessed December 28, 2014 .
  7. ↑ 17. Carrie Bornillo-Vrenna (2008). Cherry Bomb: The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Better Flirt, a Tougher Chick, and a Hotter Girlfriend - and to Living Life Like a Rock Star. Simon & Schuster. p. 55.
  8. ↑ Hal Rubenstein: 100 Unforgettable Dresses. Harper Collins, 2012, ISBN 978-0-06-219888-4 , p. 202. Limited preview in Google book search
  9. ^ The End Of D&G. In: vogue.co.uk. June 1, 2011, accessed December 28, 2014 .
  10. ^ Dolce & Gabbana - The prices. In: dolcegabbana.com. 2009, accessed December 28, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Wirtschaftsblatt.at: Dolce and Gabbana sentenced to 20 months in prison. In : wirtschaftsblatt.at. June 19, 2013, archived from the original on May 3, 2014 ; accessed on December 28, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Dolce and Gabbana: Sentenced to 20 months in prison. In: tz.de. May 8, 2014, accessed December 28, 2014 .
  13. ^ Valerie Steele: The Berg Companion to Fashion. Bloomsbury Academic, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84788-592-0 , p. 225. Limited preview in Google Book Search
  14. ↑ Scarlett Johansson launches D&G Make-up at Selfridges. (No longer available online.) In: sofeminine.co.uk. August 3, 2009, archived from the original on September 28, 2011 ; accessed on December 28, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sofeminine.co.uk
  15. ↑ Massimo Di Felice: A voyage with Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda. In: swide.com. July 17, 2012, accessed December 28, 2014 .
  16. ↑ Kevin Jagernauth: Watch: Scarlett Johansson Likes Her Lips For Kissing In Dolce & Gabbana Ad By Jean-Baptiste Mondino. (No longer available online.) In: indiewire.com. October 24, 2004, archived from the original on December 27, 2011 ; accessed on December 28, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blogs.indiewire.com
  17. ↑ Lisa Niven: Dolce's Jewels. In: vogue.co.uk. November 9, 2011, accessed December 28, 2014 .
  18. ↑ Madonna designs Dolce & Gabbana sunglasses. In: reuters.com. March 16, 2010, accessed December 28, 2014 .
  19. ↑ Creato.bg: Martini Gold by DOLCE & GABBANA - новият светски хит / moetodete.bg. In: moetodete.bg. November 25, 2010, accessed December 28, 2014 .
  20. ↑ Focus Style No. 2, July 2020, p. 14.
  21. ^ Dolce & Gabbana (1996). 10 Anni Dolce & Gabbana. Leonardo Arte SRL.
  22. ^ Dolce & Gabbana (2003). Hollywood. Assouline
  23. ↑ Mariano Vivanco - Editorial ( Memento of December 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) In: marianovivanco.com
  24. ↑ Dolce & Gabbana Books - La Collezione Libri di Dolce & Gabbana. In: dolcegabbana.it. Retrieved December 28, 2014 .
  25. ^ A b Dolce & Gabbana story. In: dolcegabbana.com. Retrieved December 28, 2014 .
  26. ^ Dolce & Gabbana (2011). David Gandy. Rizzoli.