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Byline: EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR SARAH BROWN
When roman designer Frida Giannini arrived at Gucci in 2002, she had a look through the archives. Flora, a whimsical botanical print, caught her eye. Rodolfo Gucci had sketched it back in 1966 for a silk scarf for Monaco's Princess Grace no stranger to fashion musedom, having also inspired HermA[umlaut]s's Kelly bag. As Giannini explains it, he "wanted to give her a gift, but not just flowers." Flora had been splashed across haute hippie minidresses and tops throughout the seventies, too, and Giannini knew these pieces ...