An extraordinary glimpse of the Museum of Fashion and Costume with a Roberto Capucci dress.
Dorothy by Beatrice Brandini
The Museum of Fashion and Costume at Palazzo Pitti presents a new exhibition. Forty dream dresses, some of which have never been exhibited before.
A glimpse of the Museum of Fashion and Costume at Palazzo Pitti
The nine newly inaugurated rooms narrate the fashion of the last century, from the Charleston of the Roaring Twenties to the glittering 1980s. In between, Elsa Schiaparelli, Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Cardine and Roberto Capucci.
Glimpses of the Museum of Fashion and Costume at Palazzo Pitti
What becomes even more interesting—and I already mentioned this a few months ago in a post on the reopening of this beautiful museum—is that these marvelous creations are juxtaposed with masterpieces by masters such as Galileo Chini, Felice Casorati, Alberto Burri… It’s essentially a museum within a museum.
Glimpses of the Museum of Fashion and Costume at Palazzo Pitti
The archives of the Palazzo Pitti boast a collection of 15,000 historic garments and accessories, hence the decision to rotate the collections on display annually.
Glimpses of the Museum of Fashion and Costume at Palazzo Pitti
The first room is dedicated to Charleston Fashion between the avant-garde and exoticism, with a Triptych by Galileo Chini, highlighting, above all, a dress worn by the painter’s wife at the Teatro della Scala for the premiere of Turandot, way back in 1926.
The exhibition continues with two rooms dedicated to Fashion between the two World Wars, with a particular focus on the cinematic glamour of the 1930s, featuring extraordinary creations by Elsa Schiaparelli and Madeleine Vionnet.
Glimpses of the Museum of Fashion and Costume at Palazzo Pitti
The journey continues with a selection of postwar clothing, before moving on to three rooms entirely dedicated to the 1960s and 1970s, a revolution not only in style and fashion, but also trends, and customs, whose protagonists were André Courreèges and Pierre Cardin. However, also in those years, the immaculate Roberto Capucci stands out, his work always standing out from the crowd, remaining faithful to his architectural poetics.
Glimpses of the Museum of Fashion and Costume at Palazzo Pitti
The twentieth century was a century of extraordinary discoveries, innovations, progress, rights, and freedoms, but it was also a spectacular century for the arts. One of these is certainly fashion, which has embarked on a great journey of creativity, revolutionizing lifestyles and habits.
View of the Museum of Fashion and Costume at Palazzo Pitti
Anyone visiting the Museum of Fashion and Costume for the first time will surely be amazed by the richness and rarity of the garments on display, surrounded by extraordinary paintings, as well as by the setting, I believe, unique in the world: that of Palazzo Pitti.
View of the Museum of Fashion and Costume at Palazzo Pitti
It will also be stimulating for us Florentines, who, by visiting at least once a year, can admire new developments, with the knowledge that FASHION is an art form for all intents and purposes
Enjoy your life!
Beatrice