From Friday 15 April an exhibition tells through thirty iconic garments
as the most important Italian and international designers have addressed the color white
From Friday 15 April (the inauguration is at 19) and until 12 June this year the Museum halls of Palazzo dei Pio di Carpi will host the exhibition WHITE. White in fashion- -2010 1960: Pierre Cardin to Prada. The exhibition will offer the audience thirty iconic pieces of large Italian and international designers – from Giorgio Armani to Vivienne Westwood, passing for Pierre Cardin, Gianfranco Ferré, Gianni Versace, John Galliano, Miuccia Prada – and that tell how the major fashion designers in the world have faced the solid symbol of purity.
The exhibition, curated by Manuela Rossi, is designed and produced by the city of Carpi-Musei di Palazzo dei Pio in collaboration with Carpi Fashion System and the Foundation CR Carpi and connects directly to the vocation of a city leader of a very important textile district of Carpi. The exhibition plays down the lodges of the building a footbridge from virtual fashion show, browse the models on loan from the archives of Search Mazzini di Massalombarda (RA), which with its more than 250 thousand dresses and accessories is one of the most comprehensive worldwide collections devoted to the history of fashion. The route runs from 1960 until 2010, the economic boom to the new challenges that the Carpi fashion system and the district are now faced with.
The view after a section which, thanks to vintage magazines and multimedia archives of the maze of fashion introducing audiences to the typical vocabulary of fashion, deals with the 1960s and 1970s, interpreted as a time of great challenge rules and traditions: they are here exhibited models no logo in use in Swinging London but also the now legendary punk Vivienne Westwood's corsets , up to the fanciful experimentation of Japanese Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons.
The section dedicated to the 1980s and 1990s has seamlessly all masters of made in Italy: Armani, Prada, Versace and Gianfranco Ferre, especially real philosopher of the white shirt. Alongside models of great success even more daring and curious projects like surreal creations of unrecognized Bobo Kaminsky, collective signature Venetian designers group from which would emerge Renzo Rosso.
The last section of the exhibition looks at the new millennium, the evolution of the style and the introduction of new materials – the analysis of tissues, from the most immediate experimental ones, is one of the main threads of the entire exhibition – from John Galliano's creations to the latest designer Prada products.
"This exhibition, not talking about a trend but a constant white, reiterates the eternal return of details, elements, forms that can and must find a way to express themselves. Is one of the objectives that guided the formation of what constitutes an extraordinary archive, the maze of fashion of Carpi, which this exhibition begins to reveal itself beyond its historical aspects of study and research. Locate date mode to reread the archives-says the Deputy Mayor and Councillor for culture is therefore the challenge that Ranjit Malla-this exhibit opens, the first step toward projects that are being born in Carpi and its textile district and the municipal administration's engine ".
EDA Friday 15 April (the inauguration is at 19) and until 12 June this year the Museum halls of Palazzo dei Pio di Carpi will host the exhibition WHITE. White in fashion- -2010 1960: Pierre Cardin to Prada. The exhibition will offer the audience thirty iconic pieces of large Italian and international designers – from Giorgio Armani to Vivienne Westwood, passing for Pierre Cardin, Gianfranco Ferré, Gianni Versace, John Galliano, Miuccia Prada – and that tell how the major fashion designers in the world have faced the solid symbol of purity.
The exhibition, curated by Manuela Rossi, is designed and produced by the city of Carpi-Musei di Palazzo dei Pio in collaboration with Carpi Fashion System and the Foundation CR Carpi and connects directly to the vocation of a city leader of a very important textile district of Carpi. The exhibition plays down the lodges of the building a footbridge from virtual fashion show, browse the models on loan from the archives of Search Mazzini di Massalombarda (RA), which with its more than 250 thousand dresses and accessories is one of the most comprehensive worldwide collections devoted to the history of fashion. The route runs from 1960 until 2010, the economic boom to the new challenges that the Carpi fashion system and the district are now faced with.
The view after a section which, thanks to vintage magazines and multimedia archives of the maze of fashion introducing audiences to the typical vocabulary of fashion, deals with the 1960s and 1970s, interpreted as a time of great challenge rules and traditions: they are here exhibited models no logo in use in Swinging London but also the now legendary punk Vivienne Westwood's corsets , up to the fanciful experimentation of Japanese Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons.
The section dedicated to the 1980s and 1990s has seamlessly all masters of made in Italy: Armani, Prada, Versace and Gianfranco Ferre, especially real philosopher of the white shirt. Alongside models of great success even more daring and curious projects like surreal creations of unrecognized Bobo Kaminsky, collective signature Venetian designers group from which would emerge Renzo Rosso.
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