Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Repossi


Gaia
Gaia above gaia
Repossi Joailliers is a jewelry company owned by Italian-born Alberto Repossi. The company has headquarters in Paris, Milan, and Monte Carlo. It also has two Tokyo-based branches, WAG Incorporated and Nagahori Corporation.


[edit] History
Repossi was founded in 1920 by Alberto Repossi's grandfather, G. Pietro Repossi.[1] In 1930, Alberto's father, Costantino Repossi, opened its first jewelry shop in Turin.[1] In the 1970s, Alberto expanded beyond Italy to Monaco, then to the Place Vendôme in Paris in the 1980s.[1] Since 1994, Repossi is the official jeweler to the Sovereign Prince of Monaco.[1]
[edit] Alberto Repossi
Alberto Repossi, grandson of the founder of Maison Repossi, is married to Giovanna and they have one child, named Gaia.[1] He has a sister named Angela, who also works for the jewelry house.
[edit] Gaia Repossi
Born in 1986, Gaia Repossi has been Maison Repossi's artistic director since the age of twenty.[1] She studied anthropology at the Sorbonne.[1] In 2007, she launched the Czarina collection, signed by Ere by Repossi, in hopes of cultivating a youthful market. The Byzantine-inspired collection was developed by Gaia Repossi and her childhood friend Eugenie Niarchos, a granddaughter of the shipping tycoon Stavros Niarchos.[2] Niarchos and Repossi use four different golds and rose-cut diamonds to make earrings, rings, pendants, and cuffs.[2] Prices range from €400-2,000.[2] The Repossi website declares that the "Ere" collection is a "baroque" collection with "complex gold interlaces."

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