Nine new rooms tell about the fashion of the twentieth century with clothes signed by Elsa Schiaparelli, Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Cardin, Roberto Capucci and Enrico Coveri
There is all the size of the twentieth -century style in the new fittings of the Museum of Fashion and Costume of Palazzo Pitti in Florence. A century of elegance and style, which is staged in the new nine rooms. The pre -cooked with the 1920s, those of the Charleston, to get to the eighties of Enrico Coveri. In the middle the genius of Elsa Schiaparelli, Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Cardin and Roberto Capucci. “This new selection of clothes of the Museum of Fashion and Costume tells the fashion of the twentieth century as a visual and cultural language, in constant dialogue with painting and the arts”, explained the director of the Uffizi Galleries Simone Verde, “from the exotic embroidery of the flapper to the decorative imagination of Galileo Chini, from the formal synthesis of Casorati and the fashion of the 1930s up to the minimalism of the Space Age, Bianchi and Neri by Alberto Burri. The journey consists of 40 symbol clothes, selected to dialogue with the great painting such as Galileo Chini, Felice Casorati, Alberto Burri. “In the twentieth century, fashion tells the woman between freedom and elegance”, concluded the curator of the museum, Vanessa Gavioli, “from the flapper of the 1920s with light clothes and exotic accents, we move on to the 1930s, with a more classic and traditional femininity. Chanel revolutionizes the suit, then reworked by Galitzine and Schön. In the 1960s and seventies, they Graphisms and subcultures, while the Space Age looks to the future and Capucci sculpts the dress.
