Palatial Inheritance & The Shallow End of the Gene Pool
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| Failed CEO Laudomia Pucci. |
Laudomia Pucci lives in a 15
th Century, 150-acre
estate in the Tuscan countryside. From the pose she strikes in the photo on
page 85 of the Wall Street Journal Magazine that we simply can not stop making
fun of, it is difficult to tell whether she feels embarrassed and awkward or
stupidly entitled. She inherited the estate and the family’s fashion business
in 1989 at the ripe age of 29 and, as stated in the article
Fortress of Fashion (a title which will become clearly ironic in a minute), “took
over both the business and creative sides.” As the next (and, one writer
predicts, last) in a long line of fashion conquistadors, she found her unearned responsibility "a
challenge.”
Presumably because working for Daddy all those few short
cushy years wasn’t.
Her razor-sharp mind becomes immediately evident as we are
told, shortly before we start barfing in repulsion at the photos of what this
numbskull was born into, that Laudomia “knew” when she took over for her
deceased father that her ticket to ridiculous wealth – the family’s “fashion
legacy” as it were – was in trouble. And Ms. Laudomia, whose name sounds
suspiciously like the Italian word for Laundromat, waited 20 years to do
anything about it.
