I love Italian style and like you I'm a loyal
Gucci fan. Everything in Gucci is made beautifully and long may it last.
I've only ever owned 2 Prada bags and recently gave one of them away to a Prada loving friend. Occasionally, I'll check on the website but nothing catches my eye. I used to buy the RTW and have 2 exquisite jackets I would never let go (a python and an ostrich) and I love the shoes and boots (and have lots). I find the RTW and the footwear excellent quality.
I must say that in recent years
Fendi has got itself together again. Like Gucci they do many price points for different people, if I bought
Fendi it would be high end (proper ltd ed peekaboo or one of their hand finished bags) no good messing around with the more commercial lines. I have have a couple of
Fendi dresses and a fur coat, the fur coat is out of this world (I need to collect it from storage!). I tried on Fendi boots a couple of years ago - crippling, so lovely to look at on others but not for me.