Robert Triefus

Robert Triefus was appointed Gucci’s Worldwide Marketing and Communications Director on July 21st, 2008. Robert has been Executive Vice President Worldwide of Communications at Giorgio Armani S.p.A., since April 1999, prior to which he was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Communications for Calvin Klein Inc. for over four years from 1995. British by nationality, Robert originally arrived in the United States from the UK in 1992 to take on the role of Vice President of Communications for The Body Shop International, the skin and hair care retailer. Following the company's decision to relocate its US operations to Wake Forest, NC, he moved to become Associate Director of Ketchum Communications' New York office in 1994. In the United Kingdom, Robert had been Marketing Manager of The Observer and Today newspapers before establishing his own marketing and communications agency, Timms Triefus Maddick in 1986. He joined The Body Shop International in 1990 as General Manager of International Communications based at the company's worldwide headquarters in Littlehampton, Sussex.