Entries by Fondazione Micol Fontana

Illuminate on Rai Tre: the sartorial history of the Fontana Sisters.

Euridice Axen talks about the extraordinary career of the Fontana sisters in the last appointment with iftuminate, the docu-series produced by Anele in collaboration with Rai Cultura which tells the stories of some great protagonists of the twentieth century told by as many actresses, broadcast on Sunday 17 March at 10.50pm on Rai 3. Director […]

Sorelle Fontana fashion on display in Shanghai

The Micol Fontana Foundation is pleased to announce its participation, with the loan of two dresses and other precious materials from its archives, in the exhibition “Beauty Changes: 100 Years of Italian Fashion and Costume.”   The Shanghai Italian Cultural Institute and the Consulate General of Italy in Shanghai present the exhibition “Beauty Changes: 100 […]

Exhibition in Gorizia from 21 March 2023

ITALIA CINQUANTA. Moda e Design. Nascita di uno stile  21 March 2023 – 27 August 2023 Gorizia, Palazzo Attems Petzenstein Exhibition curated by Carla Cerutti, Enrico Minio Capucci and Raffaella Sgubin Ideated and promoted by ERPAC FVG (Regional Agency for Cultural Heritage of Friuli Venezia Giulia) – Museum of Fashion and Applied Arts of Gorizia Press Release […]

Donne in equilibrio (Women in balance) 1955/1965

Donne in equilibrio 1955/1965 Salvatore Ferragamo Museum, Florence 20 May 2022 – 18 April 2023   The exhibition pays tribute to Wanda Miletti Ferragamo and all the women who contributed to the change in Italian society during the second post-war period. Virtual tour of the exhibition https://www.ferragamo.com/museo/it/donne-in-equilibrio-virtual-tour  

Bulgari The Art of Craft – The Glamour of Italian Excellence

Bulgari The Art of Craft – The Glamour of Italian Excellence Expo 2020 Dubai, Italian Pavilion 12 December 2021 – 8 January 2022   60 archive creations by Bulgari interact with 21 dresses by the great masters of Italian fashion. Next to the jewels, a series of prestigious Haute Couture garments are on display.

MET New York, mostra Heavenly Bodies. Fashion and the Catholic Imagination

Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 10 maggio – 8 ottobre 2018   The exhibition proposes a dialogue between fashion and masterpieces of medieval art in the museum’s collections to examine the continuous links of fashion with the devotional practices and traditions of Catholicism. With over one […]

Mostra Bellissima. L’Italia dell’alta moda 1945/1968

Bellissima. L’Italia dell’alta moda 1945-1968 02 dicembre 2014 – 10 gennaio 2016 MAXXI, Roma; Villa Reale, Monza   The exhibition does not tell the story of high fashion. It is rather an attempt to recompose, through the filter of present times, the complex and changing image of Italian fashion, in a choral story made up […]