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" How does a designer follow in Tom Ford&amp;#039;s footsteps? If you are Frida Giannini, creative director of Gucci, you do it with brio\u2014and you wear stilettos. This glamorous Italian has won rave reviews for the warmth and femininity she has brought to the luxury label that Ford so famously headed in the 1990s. Giannini grew up in Rome, the daughter of an architect father and art-historian mother. She credits her bohemian upbringing with shaping her sensibility and eye for design. &amp;quot;My father is a minimalist and my mother is more Baroque,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m both, of course.&amp;quot; Upon returning to Rome in 2009, after several years in London and Florence, Giannini moved into an Art Deco villa overlooking St. Peter&amp;#039;s Basilica. She filled it with some of her favorite things, from mirrored furniture to Modigliani drawings. A prized possession: that 1958 classic, the Arne Jacobsen Egg chair\u2014the perfect perch, after work, for this jet-setting designer to put up her high-heeled feet. Click here to see the 12 things Frida Giannini can&amp;#039;t live without. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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