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Serge Weinberg, chief executive of Pinault-Printemps-Redoute SA, today will name four designers to succeed Creative Director Tom Ford at Gucci Group NV.
March 11, 2004
Helmut Lang, the Austrian-born fashion designer of urban cool, is leaving his namesake label.
Jan. 25, 2005
Some weep during Yves Saint Laurent’s final show, a trip through fashion history.
Jan. 23, 2002
California
A group of at least nine men were seen on a video posted on Twitter sprinting out of the store around 3:10 p.m. Monday. The LAPD confirmed a robbery took place at a store at Westfield Century City mall.
Aug. 1, 2023
Business
Apparel: The company’s alliance with Pinault-Printemps-Redoute thwarts hostile bid by rival LVMH. The deal, which also includes Sanofi’s beauty and fashion unit, would create a luxury goods powerhouse.
March 20, 1999
Tom Ford, the American designer who helped create a new, younger generation of high-fashion customers, on Tuesday confirmed what he’d long been hinting: He will step down as designer of the Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent brands on April 30.
Nov. 5, 2003
Gucci to Sell $150 Million in Stock: The luxury leather goods maker owned by Investcorp International of New York plans to sell a 30% stake in the Gucci Group in October on the New York, London and Milan stock exchanges.
Sept. 6, 1995
Gucci Group, one of the world’s best-known fashion companies, said it had agreed to buy Sanofi Beaute from businessman Francois Pinault for $697 million to gain the Yves Saint Laurent brand and become the No. 3 luxury-goods maker.
Nov. 16, 1999
Dunhill Eyeing Gucci Takeover: British luxury goods purveyor Dunhill Holdings is negotiating the takeover of Italian fashion company Guccio Gucci, according to a London newspaper.
Nov. 2, 1992
Italy’s Gucci Group said Monday it would seriously consider rival LVMH’s takeover bid of $81 a share, as LVMH went to court in Amsterdam to block a deal between Gucci and Pinault-Printemps-Redoute.
March 23, 1999