GUCCI’S ARTISANS: Gucci is committed to help support tomorrow’s craftsmen introducing a training program dubbed “École de l’Amour,” or School of Love.
Comprising three different courses, the initiative is aimed at teaching and passing down the luxury company’s artisanal skills and its know-how to the next generation of workers, as well as to its current employees. “The heritage of Gucci is made up of people and their knowledge. Training is the most powerful method and tool we have to enhance our people and our products,” said Marco Bizzarri, Gucci’s president and chief executive officer.
Gucci’s artisans and managers, as well as retired employees, will teach the courses. They include the Craftsmanship School, or Scuola dei Mestieri, a six-month training program dedicated to leather goods’ design and production, held at the company’s ArtLab industrial complex dedicated to leather goods and shoes, which Gucci christened last April in Scandicci, near Florence, and the Factory School, a bimonthly course aimed at raising artisans skilled in a specific leather goods manufacturing process. This is held at different Gucci manufacturing plants and has enrolled 60 students since it launched in October last year. Both courses are dedicated to school graduates or unemployed people aged 18 to 26.
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