Pucci Designs Make a Major Comeback
December 15, 2004 | Senay TOPCUOGLU
She must have more Pucci than anyone else in the world, the only daughter and surviving child of the famed designer himself, Emilio Pucci, Marquis of Barsento.
But when Laudomia Pucci di Barsento arrived at Saks Fifth Avenue at Bal Harbour Shops last week to promote the spring/resort 2005 collection, she wore a Gap T-shirt, black pants and a puzzling Pucci herringbone blazer with somberly dyed diagonal stripes from last season.
The 43-year-old mother of three had plucked a silk Pucci scarf from a store display and draped it around her neck, but the tag wouldn't stay hidden.
She wore little makeup and even less attitude. Clearly, Pucci wasn't quite the picture of image director of the fashion house that produces some of the most riotous, glamorous, distinctive designs in the world.
"There is a style of Pucci that is evergreen in a way," Pucci said, without a whiff of/the stuffiness one might expect from a woman who grew up in a 600-year-old ancestral palazzo in Florence, Italy, with rugs by her father and paintings by Botticelli and Raphael.
"We have such a fantastic identity."
Specialty shops and top-notch department stores are once again hot for Pucci, whose kaleidoscope, color-soaked motifs are instantly recognizable.
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