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{{Short description|Italian ready-to-wear manufacturer}}
{{for|the actress|Genevieve Nnaji}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Genny
| logo = Genny Logo.svg
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| type = Subsidiary
| foundation = {{start date and age|1962|df=yes}}<br>[[Ancona]], Marche, Italy
| founder = Arnaldo Girombelli and Donatella Girombelli
| location_city = [[Milan]]
| location_country = Italy
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| area_served = Worldwide
| key_people = Sara Cavazza Facchini ([[Creative Director]])
Mathias Facchini ([[Chief executive officer|CEO]])
| industry = Fashion
| products = Women's ready-to-wear, accessories, Fashion Jewelry, Leather goods, shoes, perfumes, eyewear
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| parent = Swinger International S.p.A.
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| homepage = [http://www.genny.com/ www.genny.com]
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'''Genny'''  is an Italian [[ready-to-wear]] manufacturer founded in [[Ancona]] in 1962 by Arnaldo Girombelli.
== History ==
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.<ref name="repubblica">{{cite news|last1=Fabrizio De Marinis|title=Una fortuna nelle pieghe della gonna|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1988/07/08/una-fortuna-nelle-pieghe-della-gonna.html|access-date=4 September 2015|work=[[La Repubblica]]|date=8 July 1988}}</ref><ref name=book>{{cite book|last1=Richard Harrison Martin|title=Contemporary Fashion|year=1995|publisher=St. James Press, 1995|isbn=1558621733|pages=76, 195}}</ref>
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,<ref name="repubblica"/>  then in 1973 it introduced a youthful line, "Byblos", and [[Gianni Versace]] became its designer.<ref name="repubblica"/><ref name=agazine>{{cite news|last1=Michael Gross|title=A portrait of Genny|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K-kCAAAAMBAJ&q=Genny++++++ancona&pg=PA18|access-date=4 September 2015|work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|date=11 March 1991|pages=18–19}}</ref>  Later, Guy Paulin and his assistant [[Christian Lacroix]] replaced Versace at Byblos, while Versace launched another Genny's experimental line, "Complice".<ref name=agazine/> In 1983, Byblos became an independent company.<ref name=book/> After the death of Girombelli, his wife Donatella became the chairwoman of the group.<ref name=agazine/>
In 2001 [[Prada]] acquired the label, and Genny stopped its production in 2004.<ref name="frr">{{cite news|last1=Eric Wilson|title=Genny Is Back on the Runway|url=http://runway.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/genny-is-back-on-the-runway/?scp=1&sq=genny&st=cse|access-date=4 September 2015|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=September 22, 2011}}</ref> 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.<ref name="frr"/>
On July 21, 2018, the brand received Tao Award for fashion during the Taomoda event in [[Taormina]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/genny-receives-tao-award-fashion-1202763162/|title=Genny Receives Tao Award for Fashion|last=Carrera|first=Martino|date=2018-07-23|work=WWD|access-date=2018-07-24|language=en-US}}</ref>
== See also ==
{{Portal|Company|Fashion|Italy}}
* [[Italian fashion]]
* [[Made in Italy]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
== External links ==
*{{Official website|http://www.genny.com/}}
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[[Category:Clothing companies established in 1962]]
[[Category:Italian companies established in 1962]]
[[Category:Italian suit makers]]
[[Category:Luxury brands]]
[[Category:High fashion brands]]
[[Category:Eyewear brands of Italy]]
[[Category:Shoe companies of Italy]]
[[Category:Fashion accessory brands]]
[[Category:Perfume houses]]
[[Category:Bags (fashion)]]
[[Category:Swimwear manufacturers]]
[[Category:1961 establishments in Italy]]
[[Category:Manufacturing companies based in Milan]]
[[Category:Clothing brands of Italy]]