e 44.789833 n 10.879000 e 44.789833 ; 10.879000 blufin s.p.a type private industry fashion founded carpi 1977 founder anna molinari gianpaolo tarabini headquarters carpi italy number of locations 55 shops 1 area served worldwide key people anna molinari rosella tarabini gianguido tarabini products womenswear revenue 102.4 m 2006 2 website www.blufin.it blufin s.p.a is an italian fashion house founded by anna molinari and her late husband gianpaolo tarabini . the core brand is blumarine which they started in 1977 followed by miss blumarine 1987 8 to 14 year old girls blugirl 1995 for teenagers and anna molinari 1995 1 which is being repositioned as their luxury brand . 2 contents 1 history 2 brands 3 family 4 notes and references 5 external links history edit anna molinari in 2010 a blumarine blouse blumarine was established by anna molinari and gianpaolo tarabini in 1977 in the town of carpi in the province of modena . the name was inspired by the couple s favourite colour and their love of the sea . 1 in 1980 they made their first appearance at modit in milan 1 where blumarine was named designer of the year which led to their first show at milan fashion week the following year . 1 the 1986 milan fashion week saw the first collection wholly designed by anna molinari . 1 as the brand took off and they started to license it to other companies blufin was set up in 1988 to act as a holding company . 1 by 2006 royalties accounted for 5.5 m of their income . 2 the first blumarine boutique was opened in the via della spiga milan in 1990 ; 3 the company now sells into more than 1000 retail outlets of which 55 are own brand boutiques . 1 in july 2011 the company collection was presented at the catwalk of the brandery fashion show in barcelona . 4 brands edit the core brand is blumarine which has also been licensed to other companies in the fields of lingerie accessories wristwatches 5 6 homeware and so on ; the perfume license is held by icr itf . 2 however in 2007 the company announced that it would be bringing bags and small leather accessories in house with a dedicated new display area in the milan shop at via montenapoleone 20 . 2 a major international expansion of blumarine boutiques is planned particularly in the middle east and asia . 2 the same is true of the blugirl brand for young women launched in 1995 and shown in the milan international fashion shows since 2002 . 3 dedicated boutiques have been opened in rome milan naples paris kiev kyoto nagoya taipei guangzhou hangzou shanghai shenzen beijing and seoul . 2 blugirl folies is a new brand launched in the market in 2007 aimed at younger teenage girls which integrates the blugirl line . 2 family edit anna molinari has received many awards of which the most notable are perhaps the isimbardi fashion award in 2001 and a la kore fashion oscar ion 2003 . she has also been involved with many charities such as the italian osteoporosis league and the rehabilitation of prisoners . as mentioned above the couple s daughter rossella is a designer for the company . her brother gianguido tarabini joined the company in 1992 became director of licensing in 2004 and since the death of his father in 2006 has been the ceo in charge of all the company s commercial affairs and responsible for the hotel touring owned directly by his mother separately from blufin . 7 notes and references edit a b c d e f g h company profile . blufin s.p.a. archived from the original on 2007 11 12 . retrieved 2008 04 08 . a b c d e f g h blufin business strategies pdf . blufin s.p.a. 2007 11 19 . retrieved 2008 04 08 . dead link a b company history . blufin s.p.a. archived from the original on november 1 2006 . retrieved 2008 04 08 . the brandery catwalk tv fashion runway show two wristwatches wristwatch gianguido tarabini ceo blufin pdf . blufin s.p.a. retrieved 2008 04 08 . dead link external links edit anna molinari at the fashion model directory blumarine by anna molinari retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title blufin & oldid 738200132 categories clothing companies of italycompanies established in 1977clothing brands of italywatch manufacturing companies of italyhidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from october 2010coordinates not on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages emili n e rumagn lbahasa indonesiaitalianosuomi edit links this page was last modified on 7 september 2016 at 14 35 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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