Gucci

Florence, 1921: a saddler starts making luggage for travellers. A century later, the bamboo handle, the horsebit and the green-red-green web are still the most recognisable signatures in Italian leather.

The models we hunt

The Bamboo, born in 1947 when leather was scarce and the house steamed cane into handles instead. The Jackie, named after the woman who never stopped carrying it. The Dionysus with its tiger-head closure. And the pieces from the Tom Ford years, when Gucci learned to be provocative — the Indy Babouska, the Marrakech, the limited editions that still turn heads twenty years on.

Condition matters more here

Gucci canvas is beautiful and fragile: we photograph the corners, the piping and the interior, and we say plainly what a piece has lived through. Vintage bamboo darkens with use — that patina is part of the object, not a defect.

Every piece is authenticated in-house and sold with our money-back guarantee, from our boutique in Le Marais.