Kering Luxury Brand Bottega Veneta Leases Central Milan Palace

A model displays a creation from the Bottega Veneta Spring/Summer 2018 show at the Milan Fashion Week in Milan, Italy, September 23, 2017. (Reuters)
A model displays a creation from the Bottega Veneta Spring/Summer 2018 show at the Milan Fashion Week in Milan, Italy, September 23, 2017. (Reuters)
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Kering Luxury Brand Bottega Veneta Leases Central Milan Palace

A model displays a creation from the Bottega Veneta Spring/Summer 2018 show at the Milan Fashion Week in Milan, Italy, September 23, 2017. (Reuters)
A model displays a creation from the Bottega Veneta Spring/Summer 2018 show at the Milan Fashion Week in Milan, Italy, September 23, 2017. (Reuters)

Bottega Veneta has rented a historic palace in the center of Milan that will house the new offices of the brand owned by luxury goods group Kering, real estate asset management company COIMA SGR said.

Milan attracts the bulk of office investments in Italy but prospects for the sector are uncertain as companies reassess working policies in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bottega Veneta has signed a 12-year contract to lease 10,000 square meters in the 19th-century Palazzo San Fedele, located between the city’s Duomo cathedral and La Scala opera theater.

COIMA SGR purchased Palazzo San Fedele on behalf of the Qatar Investment Authority’s Italian Property Fund.

Renovation works will start at the end of April.



Italy's Prada Considering Buying Versace from Capri Holdings

 A model wears a creation as part of the Versace Spring Summer 2025 collection, that was presented in Milan, Italy, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP)
A model wears a creation as part of the Versace Spring Summer 2025 collection, that was presented in Milan, Italy, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP)
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Italy's Prada Considering Buying Versace from Capri Holdings

 A model wears a creation as part of the Versace Spring Summer 2025 collection, that was presented in Milan, Italy, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP)
A model wears a creation as part of the Versace Spring Summer 2025 collection, that was presented in Milan, Italy, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP)

Italy's Prada is considering buying fashion group Versace from US Capri Holdings, daily Il Sole 24 ore reported on Friday.
Citi is acting as adviser to Prada, the report said, adding Capri Holdings had mandated Barclay's to find potential buyers.
The Italian financial daily added that other fashion groups, as well as private equity funds, would also be interested in Versace, but that a value for the Italian maison was still being discussed. It said Prada did not comment on the report.
Last month, trade journal Women's Wear Daily had reported that the US luxury conglomerate, which also owns Michael Kors and other fashion groups, was working to find buyers for some of its brands, including Versace and luxury shoemaker Jimmy Choo, in order to focus on a turnaround plan for Kors.
In November, Capri posted a bigger-than-expected drop in quarterly revenue, hurt by execution missteps across brands and a global slowdown in luxury goods demand.