Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Fashion |
Founded | 1962 Ancona, Marche, Italy |
Founder | Arnaldo Girombelli and Donatella Girombelli |
Headquarters | , Italy |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Sara Cavazza Facchini ( Creative Director) Mathias Facchini ( CEO) |
Products | Women's ready-to-wear, accessories, Fashion Jewelry, Leather goods, shoes, perfumes, eyewear |
Parent | Swinger International S.p.A. |
Website | www.genny.com |
Genny is an Italian ready-to-wear manufacturer founded in Ancona in 1962 [1] by Arnaldo Girombelli.
Born in Ancona, Arnaldo Girombelli was the owner of a boutique with an adjacent small tailor workshop for skirts and blouses in his hometown. After gradually expanding the workshop and increasing the number of seamstresses, in 1962 he founded a label for his creations, "Genny", named after his eldest daughter. [2] [3]
In the second half of the 1960s Genny started to have a large success thanks to a line of pleated oblique skirts obtained through a new treatment technique of cloth, [2] then in 1973 it introduced a youthful line, "Byblos", and Gianni Versace became its designer. [2] [4] Later, Guy Paulin and his assistant Christian Lacroix replaced Versace at Byblos, while Versace launched another Genny's experimental line, "Complice". [4] In 1983, Byblos became an independent company. [3] After the death of Girombelli, his wife Donatella became the chairwoman of the group. [4]
In 2001 Prada acquired the label, and Genny stopped its production in 2004. [5] In 2011 the label was acquired by Swinger International S.p.A., which decided to relaunch the brand and appointed Gabriele Colangelo as the new designer. [5]
On July 21, 2018, the brand received Tao Award for fashion during the Taomoda event in Taormina. [6]