Word: leatherizing
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...would pay $1,480 for a crocodile handbag? Or $1,150 for a solid gold-mesh belt? Or $500 for a three-piece set of calf luggage? Those who would-and do-constitute the glittering clientele of Gucci, the Florentine leather company that offers fancy quality at fancy prices. Before flying off to wed Aristotle Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy stopped at Gucci's Manhattan shop to select a brown crocodile handbag. Darryl Zanuck had Gucci copy his favorite 30-year-old valise, and Capucine bought a leather dog carrier. Frank Sinatra recently sent his secretary to pick up a pair...
Cottage Industry. The Guccis-Aldo and two brothers-trace their family's merchant tradition in Florence to 1410. For the past six decades, members of the clan have prospered by selling expensive handcrafted leather goods. In the past year they have begun producing dresses and men's pants in a fabric made of linen and synthetics, and monogrammed with tiny Gs; it matches the material of. a new line of suitcases...
...shoe industry," says Congressman James A. Burke of Massachusetts, a chief promoter of curbs, "is seeking a reasonable solution such as quotas based on the 1968 import levels, perhaps allowing for a 5% increase per year." Industry spokesmen claim that expanding imports of leather and vinyl shoes-mostly from Italy and Japan -have for years absorbed all the growth in the U.S. market. Since 1955, imports have risen from 8,000,000 pairs representing only a 1% share of the domestic market to last year's 175 million pairs, or about 21% of the market. "No other industry that...
...businesses divide up their home markets. As a result, the Japanese have erected a bewildering maze of restrictive regulations. Foreign-owned firms can make wire but not cable, cameras but not lenses, watches or clocks but not both. Imports of 120 items, including such U.S. specialties as computers and leather goods, are either banned or severely limited...
Nancy Grossman, 29, a petite (5 ft., 95 lbs.) bundle of compressed fiber, is an other leading member of the new horror school. Her specialty: wooden heads, tightly leather-wrapped. She came to this image when she returned to New York City after the family tried farming in upstate New York. "I noticed how fragile people are. I saw how the human animal has to limit himself to live in our society-how he has to tie up any feelings he has that might upset the applecart...