Although the opening of the first branch in the US of the Parisian department store at One Wall Street has been a success, the project has required considerable investment from its owners.
Facing legal action in a European Commission price-fixing investigation, the fashion house has negotiated leniency by confessing to a major infraction in antitrust law previously unknown to Brussels.
The exodus of top executives from the Italian luxury fashion house may have slowed, but it hasn't halted altogether. In late March, the Rome-based luxury fashion house dismissed its longstanding head of advertising, without appointing a replacement.