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Article: A LEGEND UNFOLDS.(Domenico De Sole, Tom Ford years at Gucci)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- November 5, 2003
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LONDON -- A decade has passed since Domenico De Sole saved the job of Tom Ford -- and the rest of the Gucci design staff -- after Maurizio Gucci, in a fit of pique, insisted on firing them.
Since then, De Sole and Ford have turned the nearly bankrupt fashion house into a $2.54 billion luxury group, they've fought off hostile takeover attempts, defended Gucci in venomous courtroom battles -- and occasionally found time for a break with their families at Ford's ranch in Santa Fe, N.M.
Gucci's transformation over the past 10 years owes as much to hard work as it does to De Sole's and Ford's rare friendship. "I would trust my life with Domenico, and I ...