My MANy Bags News #181

Below: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis carries the Gucci Jackie bag in New York, 1970.
Photographed by Ron Galella

Below: The updated Jackie Bag...

Vintage Gucci Collectors Rejoice!

If you have been a loyal collector of Gucci or have been passed down some Gucci pieces from decades ago... good news for you:-) Gucci has launched a new service with Christie's to appraise your vintage Gucci. Perhaps it is time to get some returns over your fashion investments! Here's the full article below:

Calling All Gucci Collectors
IF YOU are lucky enough to have been passed a fashion heirloom you may wonder if it's worth anything. Well if it's Gucci (luckier you), you now have a simple way to find out since the label, in association with auction house Christie's, has launched Gucci Collector - a new web-based service which appraises your vintage Gucci items for free. "I feel it is a noble, appropriate and modern way to provide access to original Gucci vintage products to a relevant and well targeted audience," Gucci president and ceo Patrizio di Marco explained. "This collaboration with Christie's is indeed fully consistent with our ongoing objective of reinforcing Gucci's reputation for luxury, quality and craftsmanship in our products. This new service will provide a 'trusted' venue for transactions of vintage Gucci items thereby avoiding recourse to 'uncontrolled' auction sites such as eBay." The service, which is now live via both GUCCI.COM and CHRISTIES.COM, will also inform the collectors whether their item would be of interest to either Gucci or Christie's from an historical perspective - and will assure prospective buyers of its authenticity. The launch coincides with Gucci's plans to open a Gucci museum in Florence, the birthplace of the Italian brand, in time for its 90th anniversary in 2011. "The idea to establish a Gucci Museum is a way to celebrate the incredible story and heritage of this house," di Marco continues. "Gucci has an extremely rich archive of vintage items that has never before been accessible to public viewing. Between now and the opening - through the new Gucci Collector Service - it is quite possible that Gucci's archivists, who are constantly on the look out for additional pieces of note, will add to this archive."

Source: Vogue