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VOCABULARY Vocabulary articles: a, an, the, no article

10C AND SKILLS Fashion victims Skills Reading: an article; Reading and
Listening: a profile

QUICK REVIEW used to Work in pairs. Find five things that
Read the article about the Gucci family. Fill in gaps
you both used to do five or ten years ago that you don't do a-f in the family tree.
now. A I used to go clubbing every weekend. B So did I.
Read the article again and tick the true sentences.
Correct the false ones.
Speaking and Reading 1 Guccio Gucci designed clothes.

2 Rodolfo was good friends with Paolo.
Work in groups. Discuss these questions.
3 Paolo wanted to start his own business.
1 How important are clothes to people in your country?
4 Paolo gave information about his father to the police.
2 Do you think people spend too much money on clothes?
5 Maurizio was a successful businessman.
3 How many designer labels can you name? What do these
6 Patrizia shot Maurizio.
companies sell?

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Lots of people love buying clothes and of the business. Aldo's son, Paolo, didn't was the worst year in Gucci's history.
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Gucci is one of the most famous fashion get on with his father or his uncle, Maurizio was also having problems with
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houses in the world. It was started in Rodolfo, so he made plans to start his his marriage. One day he went on a
4 1taly in 1921 by a man named Guccio own company called Paolo Gucci. When business trip and decided not to go back
Gucci. He was a designer who made Aldo discovered this, he sacked Paolo and to his wife, Patrizia Reggiani. They finally
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leather bags and suitcases and he had made it impossible for his son to start got divorced in 1994 and a year later
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6 a small shop in Florence. The shop his own fashion business. Paolo was so Patrizia hired a gunman to murder
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was the beginning of the Gucci family angry that he told the Italian police his her ex-husband. On 27th March 1995,
business and by 1953 Guccio's four sons, father wasn't paying enough tax. Aldo 13 the gunman shot and killed Maurizio
Aldo, Ugo, Vasco and Rodolfo, were all was sent to prison for a year and a day. while he was walking to work. Patrizia
working for the company. After Aldo Gucci died in 1990, his was sent to prison for 26 years.
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When Guccio died in 1953, his eldest nephew, Maurizio, became the head Gucci products are still sold all over
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son Aldo became the head of Gucci of Gucci. Unfortunately Maurizio wasn't the world, but there are no members
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and took the Gucci label to America, 10 a very good businessman and in of the Gucci family in the successful
while Rodolfo managed the Italian side 1991 the company lost $60 million. This company we know today.