Marco Bizzarri news and archive

Podcast: Chef Massimo Bottura and Gucci CEO Marco Bizzarri on the new Gucci Osteria in L.A.

Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura opened two years ago in Piazza della Signoria, Florence as a part of Alessandro Michele's Gucci Garden. The lifelong friends, Three-Michelin Star Chef, Massimo Bottura and Marco Bizzarri, Gucci President and CEO sit down at the newly opened Gucci Osteria in Los Angeles to discuss their collaboration on this...

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Gucci CEO to donate 100,000 Euros to local hospital group

On a day when many airlines have banned flights to Italy, Marco Bizzarri, president and CEO of Gucci, has donated 100,000 euros in a personal capacity to the Reggio Emilia healthcare company, which operates local hospitals including the Santa Maria Nuova Hospital. “Our healthcare system, which in these hours is responding to the coronavirus...

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Gucci boss challenges CEOs to go carbon neutral

After going carbon neutral in September, Gucci is daring other companies to do the same. CEO Marco Bizzarri published an open letter to CEOs yesterday, asking them to take urgent steps to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, instead of solely focusing on goals for over the next decades. “Given the scientific evidence from the recent IPBES and...

Fashion

“We have become strongly dependent on millennials”, says Gucci CEO

Marco Bizzarri, President and CEO of Gucci, is the protagonist of the second episode of “Polimoda Duets”, a series of interviews produced by Italian fashion school Polimoda for its social media channels. The first interviewee was Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović. In the video, Bizzarri comments on Gucci’s new wave of success under...

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Business|OPINION

Is Kering becoming too dependent on Gucci?

Investors and market analysts love to make alarming predictions about the future of companies they invest in; most of the time to soften the blow of a unavoidable loss. What is causing them to worry at the moment? The success story of Kering's top performing label, Gucci. Some investors are becoming more and more nervous of Kering’s future as it...

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Video: Marco Bizzarri / Mimma Viglezio

Editor Mimma Viglezio interviews President and CEO of Gucci Marco Bizzarri Source: SHOWstudio, YouTube.

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Business|IN DEPTH

Gucci boss pledges label to go fur-free in 2018

Italian fashion house Gucci is to go fur-free from next year and will be auctioning off all of its remaining animal fur items, the label’s president and chief executive Marco Bizzarri announced at the 2017 Kering Talk at the London College of Fashion. Gucci joins a host of the luxury fashion labels and retailers including Armani, Hugo Boss, Yoox...

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Marco Bizzarri views Gucci as a 6 billion euro brand

London - Luxury Italian fashion house Gucci may be reaching for the stars, as its president and chief executive officer Marco Bizzarri aims defy the market and achieve sales of 6 billion euros. Following Gucci's cruise 2017 show in Westminster Abbey, Gucci hosted an investor day in London to share its plan for the future, which sees the brand...

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Gucci to merge women's and men's shows

London - Although Francois-Henri Pinault, CEO of Kering and parent company of Gucci previously shunned the decision of several luxury fashion houses to embrace the 'see-now, buy-now' business model, the Italian fashion house has decided to make a major change to its catwalk format by merging its women's and men's shows. Gucci to stage single...