An exhibition in Milan tells the story of women's emancipation through clothes and accessories

Palazzo Morando - Costume Fashion Image reopens the halls of the Ala Nuova with an exhibition focusing on the many radical transformations of twentieth-century fashion. Fashion Moments at Palazzo Morando. From the Bust to the Dungaree, this is the title of the exhibition, intends to tell the story ofwomen’s emancipation from a singular point of view: a seven-stage journey through the museum’s clothes and accessories, selected from those exhibited only in the 1980s or completely unseen.

The collection of the City of Milan currently includes more than six thousand pieces of clothing and accessories from the 16th to the 21st century: a precious patrimony not only for museum research activities, but also for the planning of exhibitions on different themes and with different cuts each time, and for the contribution, through loans, to the realization of prestigious fashion exhibitions in Italy and abroad.

Curated by Enrica Morini, Margherita Rosina and Ilaria De Palma, the exhibition starts at the beginning of the century with the bust, an item of clothing still considered fundamental, but whose elimination would be one of the first effects of female emancipation. Moving through the flappers, casual young women of the 1920s, the elegance of the 1930s, the hardships of World War II and the great tailoring of the 1950s, the exhibition ends with the birth of Italian prêt à porter in the 1970s and a dungaree chosen as a symbol of the youth fashions of the period.

Linking the journey through the history of fashion to the theme of the museum’s collections is a 1963 Mary Quant suit donated in 1981 by the British designer “to the constituent fashion museum of Milan.”

Confronting the outfits means studying them in depth both from the point of view of fashion and its values and from the material point of view: their setting requires having to recreate the physicality for which they were made (by making the display support or adapting the mannequin to the dress) and reproduce the substructures necessary to support and make legible the volumes that make up their form with the aim of highlighting the sartorial cut of the garment and giving it the silhouette and styling proper to the moment of its creation.

For info: http://www.costumemodaimmagine.mi.it/

Hours: Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Free admission.

Photo by Giulia Bellezza.

Image: Mary Quant, outfit composed of pinafore, turtleneck sweater and tights (1963; Milan, Palazzo Morando - Costume Moda Immagine © City of Milan - all rights reserved - Palazzo Morando - Costume Moda Immagine, Milan

An exhibition in Milan tells the story of women's emancipation through clothes and accessories

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