FIrenze, 16 Jul. (askanews) – A century of fashion, from the Charleston to the eighties of Enrico Coveri, passing through the creations of Elsa Schiaparelli, Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Cardin and Roberto Capucci. The twentieth century told through 40 clothes symbol of the highest world tailoring, many of which are never exhibited, who are now in dialogue with works by artists such as Felice Casorati or Alberto Burri: it is the new set -up created by the fashion museum of Palazzo Pitti S Florence.
“Always costumes and clothes, clothes in dialogue with works of art-told Askanews Simone Verde, director of the Uffizi Galleries-to underline first of all the co-president inside this institute of two important collections, that is, that of the Gallery of Modern Art and the Museum of Fashion and Costume, how fashion is fully a chapter of the history of taste and aesthetics, not just an anecdotal history of society and the costume. The relationships between the works and the clothes with a set -up that we hope will like specialists to the public “is even more deepened.”
Each of the nine rooms tells a period, from the 1920s up to the eighties and each room lives of its own spirit, linked to the fashion creations in dialogue with the culture of the period. And the intent of the project is not only to document the history of taste, but it goes even further. “Show how these clothes are full -bodied works of art – added Verde – almost of the sculptures conceived, however, for a world view that has to do with time and life and which is strongly more democratic than that of the centuries that preceded the twentieth century and that have done in the twentieth century the moment of maximum democratization of art and therefore of the invention of this art to be brought that changes life and improving it every day”.
In some way the idea is to overcome the distinctions between the visual and those applied arts, in a vision of art in general that is wider and more inclusive.
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