Continuity mistake: When Patrizia paints her phone number on the scooter's windshield the numbers change between shots, check the 5 for example.
Continuity mistake: When Aldo and Rodolfo first meet, the hat on the table swaps between being on the sunny side or in the shadows, depending on the shot.
Continuity mistake: Nemir Kirdar in their first meeting tells Maurizio that family business means family problems. The cigar in his hand is tilted at a different angle in the reverse shot. (01:47:35)
Continuity mistake: When Paola stands and leaves with vague promises of strudel deliveries, Patrizia's hands are joined. Cuts to her watching Paola leave, and she's smoking, hands apart. (01:43:25)
Continuity mistake: When Pacino introduces the country workers to "My nephew Maurizio" his sunglasses suddenly jump from his head to his hand. Adam Driver in this second shot affectionately touches his wife's back, and the gesture is repeated in the next angle change. (00:44:20)
Continuity mistake: When Patrizia retorts Maurizio's confrontational attitude with "YOU are an unnecessary detail" she holds the glass with her right hand, which becomes the left in the reverse shot. (01:36:30)
Continuity mistake: When Maurizio corrects Patrizia saying the restaurant was at the second floor of the Tour Eiffel, Lady Gaga goes from both hands joined to one hand up in the air in the middle of a gesture. An even more blatant instance later when he lambasts her saying they wouldn't tell her if they did mind her gab. (01:36:05)
Continuity mistake: When Patrizia is told by Domenico "You have a natural advantage, you are not a Gucci", her hands are down and separated, and then immediately in the next shot up and joined. (01:11:35)
Continuity mistake: Rodolfo verbally eviscerates Paolo who presented him his sketches. Then he adds "Oh no, forgive me." As he does that, his eyeglasses switch hands. (00:55:50)
Continuity mistake: Aldo is having lunch with Maurizio and Patrizia at the country house. He says "I love this place", cigar in hand. Puts the hand down, but the hand is up in the following shot. (00:45:05)
Continuity mistake: When Paolo shrugs at his father sniping at his fashion taste saying "Ehh, it's chic", his arm is lowered in one shot, up in the next. (00:36:00)
Continuity mistake: Aldo after the birthday toast tells Patrizia that the Gucci were saddle-makers. His son in the wide angle claps his hands together, nothing in them. Closer angle, and he conjured smokes and a lighter. (00:35:25)
Continuity mistake: When Aldo invites Maurizio to play a heated game of calcio fiorentino at the villa, the people lounging in the background change position between shots. (00:34:20)
Continuity mistake: Patrizia is having lunch with her future father-in-law at the historic Terrazza Gallia restaurant in Milan. She jumps nervously when he first addresses her; during this transition, the waiter who just tilted the bottle up is still pouring with the bottle tilted down in the second shot, and a waiter that was taking care of the table behind Lady Gaga disappears. (00:15:15)
Continuity mistake: Paola tells Patrizia that she made strudel. Her cigarette hand is down, but in the next shot the arm is on top of the bench's back. (01:42:05)
Continuity mistake: In the Christmas gifts scene, Lady Gaga picks the gift card with her left hand, it's in her right hand in the next shot, left hand again at the cut. (01:41:20)
Continuity mistake: Backstage of the Versace show. The young designer asks Maurizio what's his name as he sips some champagne. He holds the flute glass in a different way between shots. (01:09:20)
Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the scene when Patrizia finds her maid's counterfeit Gucci, she puts her shopping bags on the kitchen counter. They are all roughly parallel, but when she questions Ira, the Burberry shopping bag is perpendicular to the others. (01:05:20)
Continuity mistake: When Maurizio discusses Rodolfo's inheritance and the taxes to pay, look at the objects in front of Patrizia; they go from the side of the book, to the top of it. (01:01:45)
Continuity mistake: Patrizia is trying on some shoes inside the store in Via Condotti after Sophia Loren left. Al Pacino checks her out from behind, and you can see that there's nothing directly in front of the stool, but in close-up there's a pair of red heels. (00:42:00)
Answer: Yes. Basically, within the narrative of the film, Maurizio is weak-willed and easily manipulated by Patrizia; he didn't even want to be involved in running Gucci in the first place and has no real business acumen. So, he both overextends the firm and spends a huge amount of money on an extravagant lifestyle, which leaves him in financial trouble and at the mercy of a hostile takeover.