Alessandro Dell'acqua, Dolce Gabbana, Gianfranco Ferre

[ShoesYouCanUse]

Greetings SF - I am reaching out to see if their is still a demand for the following designers:

ALESSANDRO DELL'ACQUA, DOLCE GABBANA, GIANFRANCO FERRE.

Best regards,

 

[GoldenTribe]

Meaning what?

 

[ShoesYouCanUse]

Their products, suits, tux and shoes..

 

[rach2jlc]

Question is WAAAAAY too vague to be answerable in ANY way, but... um... yeah?

Keep in mind that these brands have a HUGE range of products, have been around forever, and make nice stuff, fair stuff, and horrible stuff. So, by "demand" just listing a name doesn't make much sense. Do you mean demand on SF? Demand for resale on SF? on ebay? in general? At retail?

In general, though, DG is pretty popular among the fashion crowd, Dell'acqua and ferre only among a small band of customers who know/like the products. None of them fetch much at resale, regardless of their sky-high retail prices, and none of them are very well regarded on SF (or, in the case of Ferre or Dell'acqua, probably only a handful even know who they are or have ever owned anything by them.)

All three are so different in terms of aesthetic and positioning, again, the question is almost meaningless.

 

[meister]

Originally Posted by ShoesYouCanUse

Greetings SF - I am reaching out to see if their is still a demand for the following designers:

ALESSANDRO DELL'ACQUA, DOLCE GABBANA, GIANFRANCO FERRE.

Best regards,

Show us some Ferre shoes.

 

[rach2jlc]

Originally Posted by meister

Show us some Ferre shoes.
Even then it's too vague. I assume you mean the short-lived (I think only one season?) Scafora for Ferre shoes. The others pre-Ferre's death were Vicini-made (IIRC), and so basically your same Gucci/Prada/DG overpriced stuff, and the current ones (don't know the maker) are fair, but $700 retail and probably not welted. Again, think Prada/Gucci/YSL, etc. The Lars Nilsson season where everything cost $5000 didn't sell well, and they fired him. It was a great idea to create a stratospheric, amazing quality super luxe brand, and then the world economy tanked. I mean, if we're just randomly selecting stuff, I'll take the AW08 Croc rider's jacket: