Gucci

Founded in Florence in 1921 as a leather goods house, Gucci built its name on luggage and handbags before it made clothes, and the horsebit and the interlocking double G are still the marks most people recognise it by.

The leather goods are where the house is most itself. Read the composition: Gucci works in canvas and coated fabric as readily as in calf, and the two wear very differently over a few years.