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With a capital of only 30,000 lira, he opened the first Gucci Shop which would be the beginning of a big business empire. After WWII, the firm was named Guccio Gucci srl, keeping that name until his death in 1953. In 1982, the firm was renamed Guccio Gucci spA.
Guccio Gucci (1881-1953) was the son of a Florentine craftsman and founded the House of Gucci as a saddlery shop in 1906 in Florence. For unknown reasons, he moved to Paris and then London where he worked as the Maitre d'Hotel at the Savoy. In 1920, when he was 39 years old, Guccio Gucci moved back to Italy.
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