Question: is paolo gucci the same as gucci?
Answer: Paolo Gucci, a former Gucci design chief and a central player in the Italian leather goods family's notorious internecine squabbles, died at a hospital in London on Tuesday. He was 64. ... Gucci was the grandson of Guccio Gucci, the onetime London hotel dishwasher and saddle salesman who founded the company in 1923.