After four years of work to define its new layout, the Fashion and Sewing Museum was reopened at Palazzo Pitti in Florence, with 20 rooms tracing the history of costumes from the 18th century to the present.
The new environments were presented by the director of the Gallerie degli Uffizi, Simone Verde, last Tuesday (17), and tell the story of two centuries (18 and 19) fundamental to the development of fashion and tailoring.
From imperial-style silhouettes to 19th century wedding dresses, including a model with a train by the “father of haute couture”, British designer Charles Frederick Worth.
One of the new features concerns the exhibition in which period clothes are displayed in dialogue with a selection of paintings from the Gallerie degli Uffizi, carefully chosen to serve as a counterpoint to the fashion creations.
The works range from the great portraitists of the 18th and early 19th centuries, such as Carle Vanloo, Laurent Pecheux and Jean-Sébastien Rouillard, through the maturity of the 19th century, by Tito Conti and Vittorio Corcos, until reaching the Italian avant-garde, by Alberto Burri.
Founded in 1983, the site, in the Palazzina della Meridiana, is the first Italian state museum dedicated to the history of fashion and its social value.
The set of works on display also includes fashion clothing and accessories, such as lingerie, jewelry and costume jewelry, as well as costumes worn in famous films, plays and operas – designed by great directors of the 20th century – worn by cinema and entertainment stars. Italian and international.
Among the ancient costumes permanently exposed after the complex restoration are the 16th century funeral clothes of Cosmas I de Medici and Eleonora de Toledo and her son, Don Garzia. (HANDLE)
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