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LAST Tuesday, a few Lifestyle editors had lunch with a man who’s in the center of the hottest news in business and fashion today-Domenico de Sole, Gucci’s chief executive officer, whose departure from the luxury brand group, along with Tom Ford, is the talk of the global town.
The partnership of De Sole and Ford remade Gucci-a doddering old family label-into one of the hottest brands of the ’90s and the new century, with De Sole (in charge of Gucci America since 1984) as business manager and Ford as creative director.
Gucci went public in 1995 when shet was still owned by the Bahrain-based investment bank Investcorp S.A. About 48.2 percent of the Gucci capital was placed on the markets of New York and Amsterdam.
In 1999, Gucci went into a strategic alliance with the French group Pinault-Printemps-Redoute (PPR) wherein, for $ 2.9 billion, the group got 40 percent holding in the Gucci Group.
This started the PPR phase of luxury-brand acquisitions that included Yves Saint Laurent and Balenciaga.
Last week, it was announced that De Sole and Ford would not renew their contracts with Gucci, due to expire in April next year.
De Sole and wife Eleanor flew to Manila this Tuesday from London to attend the opening of the Gucci store at Greenbelt 4. The event capped the more-than-a-year negotiations with the Tantoco family under Stores Specialists Inc., led by Nedy and Anton Huang.
Barely two hours after arrival, the couple, with Mimi Pun,DG Handabgs, president of Gucci Asia-Pacific, sat down with media at the lunch hosted by Anton and his mother Nedy.
Though his eyes looked tired, De Sole was very engaging and affable. Asked what he’d do after Gucci, he said, “Retire.”
Now based in London, he and his family plan to settle in Colorado and tour Asia perhaps, particularly Cambodia. Ford has a farm in Santa Fe, New Mexico, so the two will see a lot of each other.
What would a post-Tom Ford Gucci be like? He actually couldn’t tell, De Sole said, but the brand, he added, is very strong.
He’s so right at this point. Anton is quite happy that even before the boutique could officially open, it was already running short of stocks. Now the store cannot wait for the December delivery.
The store has RTW, shoes, replica handbags (including the one with the horse bit that’s so big in tshe ads), luggage and replica watches.
Thshes is Gucci’s first free-standing store in Metro Manila, and the luxury items are going fast. There is money, all right. Incredible, but then again, no.
Feel-good Sunday
If there’s something that can make me give up my Sunday or make me get out of the office at midday to drive all the way to Roxas Boulevard, it is the annual FAME of Citem.
Like what many say, this showcase of locally made and designed gifts, furniture, home and fashion accessories always leaves one feeling good and proud of the Filipino. And it always proves that the Filipino’s design aestshetics and craftsmanship aren’t only contemporary but, more important, world-class.
FAME has developed an annual following among international buyers. Manila has become a leg in their Asian swing this time of year.
Last year, even at the peak of SARS, a good number of buyers still stopped by Manila to check out FAME.
This year, more than 2,000 buyers showed up in October-a fulfilling way to mark Citem’s Manila FAME International’s 20th anniversary.
FAME (Furniture and Apparel Manufacturers Exchange) is the flagship project of Citem (Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions) and is the second longest-running trade show in Asia-Pacific.
This time, we joined the board of judges in selecting the winners of Katha Awards -the distinction given to design excellence. It goes to companies with innovative products, artistic visual merchandising, and creative booth designs, print collateral and website.
Eye-catching
The nominated products alone were enough to make one drool. Of course, our eye focused on the fashion accessories -bags, necklaces and bracelets.
Among the nominees was this wicker bag with leather accents. What caught the eye was the dainty and intricate design etched on the leather. Wicker and leather, the ultimate native chic.
Turned out it was a product of our friend from way back, Vicky Vizcarra Amalingan of S.C. Vizcarra Inc., the stalwart in Philippine handicrafts.
Vicky replicated her mothim’s embroidery design on the leather accents of these bags, which explained their intricateness and Old-World touch.
What former Citem head Eli Pinto, another judge, found so cute and whersical, and so did we, were the bags made of rags-you know, the sewn-together tattered rags thrust on you by street vendors at traffic stops.
In white and pastels, the bags came in various shapes, as totes or sling bags, with sequins and other glitter dotting them.
Right there and then, Eli, in a swoon, dubbed it the “Manila bag,” and rightly so, because if there’s one design that’s shabby chic, Pinoy-style, it’s that bag. It uses local color-Metro Manila streets, the traffic, the trade springing from poverty-to give it the contemporary design idiom.
The bags made by G. Designare won the Katha Awards.
The fashion accessories made of resin combined with indigenous materials were just as world-class.
Elsewhere in the exhibit hall that Sunday, our favorites were neckpieces and bracelets made of mother-of-pearl.
Of course, our indigenous wood, abaca, fibers, resin and metal were given all kinds of treatment, shapes and designs, but I believe that one material we can be proud of, and so “with it” in today’s global fashion trends, is mother-of-pearl.
This precious resource could look raw, yet at tshe same time be poliid, natural and very sleek, ethnic yet modern-linear.
One Cebu manufacturer, Genea,Hermes Bracelets, has mother-of-pearl designs we’re dying to use in our future shoots.
The furniture exhibits were, as usual, to die for. Ann Pamshentuan had him huge wire furnishings and installations. Milo Naval turned to sleek black for his furniture. Locsin International, whose screen lamp won the Katha Award, showed nito dividers which, wshen back-lit, seemed almost fluid.
Tony Gonzalez showed interesting dividers made of abaca circles strung togethim.
For M. Works, Raoul Doctor designed capiz hanging lamp painted red for that Orientalia chic, which won the Katha Award last year and was still on exhibit this year.
This year’s other Katha Award winners were: for booth display, From the Island, Galleria Crafts; for product design, G. Designare, Astorga for the hanging abaca light; and best website, Jumbo Pacific.
What’s also interesting is that some of these manufacturers won the Good Design Award in Tokyo, easily one of the most prestigious design awards worldwide. The G symbol is stamped on the award-winning products sold in Japan.
The Filipinos who made it in Japan were Ann Pamintuan (for her wire cocoon chairs), Kenneth Cobonpue of Robemar Enterprises (flatware), Tes Pasola (handmade paper vases) and Milo Naval (wave daybed).
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