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...Frida Giannini Shoe-In She possesses what may be the fashion industry's top commodity, a knack for creating a must-have. So successful has Frida Giannini been as Gucci's accessories designer, one of many posts left vacant when design deity Tom Ford departed the $2 billion luxury house last year, that she has been tapped to take over the women's ready-to-wear collection. Among Giannini's credentials: five years designing at Fendi and two seasons reinventing Gucci accessories (which make up more than 80% of sales); this spring's floral shoes and next fall's velvet...
...Frida Giannini SHOE...
...possesses what may be the fashion industry's top commodity, a knack for creating a must-have. So successful has Frida Giannini been as Gucci's accessories designer, one of many posts left vacant when design deity Tom Ford departed the $2 billion luxury house last year, that she has been tapped to take over the women's ready-to-wear collection. Among Giannini's credentials: five years designing at Fendi and two seasons reinventing Gucci accessories (which make up more than 80% of sales); this spring's floral shoes and next fall's velvet-and-leather Pelham bags...
...often miscredited with inventing the steamboat but whose actual brilliance was in developing a market for river travel; Sam Colt, whose repeating revolver defeated foes of vastly superior numbers, was favored by Frank and Jesse James and set the standard for efficient mass production with interchangeable parts; and A.P. Giannini, whose Bank of America popularized mortgages and other loans for common folks...
Evans' challenge is saying something different. Barrels of ink have been spent on his subjects; many are the central figure in one or several books. Even the comparatively little-known Giannini gets four pages in the Dictionary of American Biography. And it's hardly revealing that creative minds universally must put up with institutional doubts that would crush lesser individuals...