The purchase, sale, import, export, brokerage, and trade, in any form, of clothing items, leather goods, footwear, accessories, luxury items, and fashion in general; the acquisition and granting of licenses of any kind and franchising activities; the acquisition of stakes in other companies with a similar purpose; the granting of loans and the provision of guarantees in favor of the subsidiaries and, more generally, the performance of any commercial and financial operations deemed useful to achieve or to directly or indirectly favor the corporate purpose, including the establishment of branches or subsidiaries both in Switzerland and abroad.