Emilio Pucci

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Marchese Emilio Pucci di Barsento , Marchese di Barsento, (born November 20, 1914 in Naples , † November 29, 1992 in Florence ) was an Italian fashion designer .

Career

Emilio Pucci came from an old Florentine family. He studied both in Italy (University of Milan) and in the USA: Agriculture at the University of Georgia in Athens and Social Science at Reed College in Oregon with a Masters degree in 1937. In 1934 he was a member of the Olympic ski team from Italy. In 1937 he won a ski scholarship from Reed College in Oregon. His first fashion designs were team uniforms for the college ski team. In 1939 he graduated. In 1941 he received his Laureate in Political Science from the University of Florence . During the Second World War he was in the Italian Air Force pilot of a torpedo bomber with the rank of captain.

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Count Pucci was close friends with Edda Ciano , Mussolini's daughter and wife of the Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano . Together with "Felizitas" Beetz , he was instrumental in rescuing the Cianos family in 1944, including his historically important diaries in Switzerland.

In 1947 he brought ski fashion he designed for a friend to the magazine Harpers Bazaar and Pucci founded a fashion boutique in Canzone del Mare on Capri , a meeting place for the jet set, in which he always served customers himself. Out of consideration for his noble family, he initially only used the name Emilio for his fashion house (in addition to Capri, he had boutiques in Rome, Florence, Montecatini, Elba). Pucci had great success with colorful, airy Mediterranean fashion. Stars like Sophia Loren , Grace Kelly , Marilyn Monroe and Jacqueline Kennedy wore his designs. In the 1960s, his futuristic fashion made a name for the air hostesses at Braniff International Airways . He designed the logo for the Apollo 15 mission.

His daughter, Marchesa Laudomia Pucci , has been with the company since 1985, which she has been running since Pucci's death in 1992. In 2000 it sold almost 70 percent of the company to the French luxury goods group LVMH . From 2002 to 2005 the Frenchman Christian Lacroix was responsible for the design. From 2005 to the end of 2008, the Englishman Matthew Williamson was the creative director of the Emilio Pucci brand . Since October 1st, 2008, the Norwegian designer Peter Dundas has been the new Creative Director at Pucci.

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Individual evidence

↑ On the successor to the creative direction by Peter Dundas ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Vogue magazine , accessed May 26, 2009 @1@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Pucci, Emilio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pucci, Marchese di Barsento Emilio (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian fashion designer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 20, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH	Naples
DATE OF DEATH	November 29, 1992
Place of death	Florence

[1] On the successor to the creative direction by Peter Dundas ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Vogue magazine , accessed May 26, 2009 @1@ 2