How a Family Empire Went to Hell in a Handbag

The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed , by Sara Gay Forden. William Morrow, 351 pages, $26.

The Gucci family, as everyone knows, accomplished something far more magical than turning the proverbial sow’s ear into the proverbial silk purse. They transformed the sow’s ear–or presumably some more tender part Read More