Bottega Veneta
In 2016, the brand's second flagship store opened on North Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. The company announced it would unify its men and women's shows. During the company's 50th anniversary show at the Accademia di Brera, the Bottega Veneta clutch bag carried by Lauren Hutton in the 1980 movie "American Gigolo" was revived (and renamed "The Lauren 1980"). In October 2016, Claus-Dietrich Lahrs was appointed CEO of Bottega Veneta. In 2018, Bottega Veneta opened a 6-floor flagship store in Ginza, Tokyo, in a building designed as a tribute to the capital's architectural modernism. In January 2018, Bottega Veneta opened a 15,000-square-foot store - its third flagship store - on the corner of Madison and 64th Street in New York City. In June 2018, Tomas Maier stepped down as creative director of Bottega Veneta.