Purpose-driven luxury house AGCF will open its second
boutique inside The St. Regis Longboat Key Resort in fall 2026, marking its
first East Coast location and continuing Alexandra Gucci Zarini’s family legacy
with St. Regis
LONGBOAT KEY, FLORIDA, October 1, 2026.
AGCF, the purpose-driven luxury accessories house founded by Alexandra Gucci
Zarini, and The St. Regis Longboat Key Resort today announced the opening of
AGCF’s second boutique, opening inside the resort’s lobby in today. The opening
marks AGCF’s first East Coast location, following the house’s flagship at 479
N. Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, and brings the Gucci family’s historic
connection to St. Regis to Florida’s Gulf Coast for the first time.
The opening carries a rare historical symmetry. In 1960, Aldo Gucci, the visionary who transformed his father’s Florentine workshop into a global luxury house, opened a store for the family business at The St. Regis New York, with a boutique
inside the hotel on the 55th Street side and the family’s Fifth Avenue store
adjacent to it. Aldo Gucci was equally a pioneer of Rodeo Drive, where he
helped establish the street as the West Coast capital of luxury. AGCF’s first
boutique, at 479 N. Rodeo Drive, was conceived as an homage to him, and the
house continues to honor his legacy through each of its retail locations. More
than 65 years after he brought the family name to St. Regis, his granddaughter
now brings her own house back, this time on Florida’s Gulf Coast, pairing the
heritage of the St. Regis name with a new generation of luxury hospitality.
“My grandfather understood that the world’s great hotels are where luxury lives,”
said Alexandra Gucci Zarini, Founder of AGCF. “For me, returning to St. Regis
is not nostalgia. It is a continuation, with a new purpose at its heart: the
protection of children.”
AGCF is a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation built on a singular idea, expressed in the house’s guiding principle: “Giving is the highest luxury.” Most AGCF pieces carry the house’s signature Unità hardware, meaning “in unity for children.” A portion of proceeds from the house’s collections directly supports AGCF’s charity partners dedicated to the protection and well-being of children.