Genny

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Genny
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryFashion
Founded1962;63 years ago (1962)
Ancona, Marche, Italy
FounderArnaldo Girombelli,
Donatella Girombelli
Headquarters
Milan
,
Italy
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Sara Cavazza Facchini,
(Creative Director)
Mathias Facchini, (CEO)
ProductsWomen's ready-to-wear, accessories, Fashion Jewelry, Leather goods, shoes, perfumes, eyewear
Parent Swinger International S.p.A.
Website www.genny.com
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Genny is an Italian ready-to-wear manufacturer founded in Ancona in 1962 by Arnaldo Girombelli.

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History

Born in Ancona, Arnaldo Girombelli was the owner of a boutique with an adjacent small tailor workshop for skirts and blouses in his hometown. After gradually expanding the workshop and increasing the number of seamstresses, in 1962 he founded a label for his creations, "Genny", named after his eldest daughter. [1] [2]

In the second half of the 1960s Genny started to have a large success thanks to a line of pleated oblique skirts obtained through a new treatment technique of cloth, [1] then in 1973 it introduced a youthful line, "Byblos", and Gianni Versace became its designer. [1] [3] Later, Guy Paulin and his assistant Christian Lacroix replaced Versace at Byblos, while Versace launched another Genny's experimental line, "Complice". [3] In 1983, Byblos became an independent company. [2] After the death of Girombelli, his wife Donatella became the chairwoman of the group. [3]

Acquisitions

In 2001 Prada acquired the label, and Genny stopped its production in 2004. [4] In 2011 the label was acquired by Swinger International S.p.A., which decided to relaunch the brand and appointed Gabriele Colangelo as the new designer. [4]

Recognition

On July 21, 2018, the brand received Tao Award for fashion during the Taomoda event in Taormina. [5]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Fabrizio De Marinis (8 July 1988). "Una fortuna nelle pieghe della gonna". La Repubblica . Retrieved 4 September 2015.
  2. 1 2 Richard Harrison Martin (1995). Contemporary Fashion. St. James Press. pp. 76, 195. ISBN   1558621733.
  3. 1 2 3 Michael Gross (11 March 1991). "A portrait of Genny". New York . pp. 18–19. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
  4. 1 2 Eric Wilson (September 22, 2011). "Genny Is Back on the Runway". The New York Times . Retrieved 4 September 2015.
  5. ↑ Carrera, Martino (2018-07-23). "Genny Receives Tao Award for Fashion". WWD. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
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