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Dolce & Gabbana
Dolce & Gabbana SpA is a high-end designer company
owned by Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana.
Dolce & Gabbana are very popular for their designs
in the Hollywood industry; they have designed clothes
for Madonna, Monica Bellucci, Isabella Rossellini, Kylie
Minogue, Jennifer Lopez and Angelina Jolie, amongst others.
The company is based in Milan. The private life of Gabbana
and Dolce's affairs became public in 2004, when they officially
announced their separation. The company will still stay
the same, and they will continue to design together.
Its first store in the United States opened in March
1995 in the upscale shopping mecca "the Galleria"
in Houston's fashion district. Since then, a boom in interest
in their clothes has called for openings of their boutiques
in other major cosmopolitan cities all over the world.
Their boutiques have become a symbol of high fashion and
couture.
Dolce & Gabbana is organized into two central brands.
'D&G' and 'Dolce & Gabbana' D&G generally
forms the groups more casual lines with cheaper prices.
Dolce & Gabbana centralizes on haute couture and expensive
price tags. Within each brand is 'Beachwear' and separately
'Dolce & Gabbana underwear'.
History
Dolce was born on September 13, 1958,
in Polizzi Generosa, Italy, and Gabbana was born on November
14, 1962, in Venice, Italy. As students, Gabbana studied
graphic design, but Dolce received a fashion education,
studying in Venice and working in the small clothing factory
his family owned.
In 1980, the duo met when they worked at the same atelier
in Venice. They began to do freelance design in 1982,
when they began doing business together.
When their first collection was shown in 1986, it received
acclaim from around the globe. Four years later, they
revealed their premiere menswear collection and opened
a women's boutique in Milan. Also in 1990, they started
designing for the Complice line for the Genny Group in
Milan.
Recently, the fashion house published a book chronicling
10 years of Dolce & Gabbana history.
Dolce & Gabbana are on the same line of couture houses
of Armani, Versace, Gucci, Prada and Moschino.
Dolce and Gabbana announced on the 20th February 2005
that they would split up after 19 years. Stefano Gabbana
said that "This is a love split, not a business split,".
Moreover he said "Domenico and I are still very good
friends and, as for the working relationship, we are still
very much together. Business, in fact, has never been
better."
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