Open until 25 June 2012, curated by Judith Clark e Maria Luisa Frisa. It will explore the many sides of her work and offer a fresh approach to interpret her style and way of thinking
DIANA VREELAND AFTER DIANA VREELAND
an exhibition curated by Judith Clark and Maria Luisa Frisa
Venice, Palazzo Fortuny, 10th March - 25th June 2012
Press vernissage: Friday 9th March 2012 from 10 am to 12 noon
Open day: Friday 9th March 2012 from 12 noon to 8 pm (by invitation only, in attachment)
exhibition co-produced by
the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and the Diana Vreeland Estate and commissioned by Lisa Immordino Vreeland
The exhibition - dedicated to the extraordinary and complex Diana Vreeland (Paris, 1903 - New York, 1989) - will explore the many sides of her work and seek to offer a fresh approach with which to interpret the elements of her style and way of thinking. The title stresses the need today to decontextualise the many facets that go to make up her kaleidoscopic career and to reconnect them in a new reading of the multiple meanings underlying her now legendary professional and human experience.
The exhibition will not limit itself to displaying some garments, although it will indeed be possible to admire many and extraordinary items; it will instead “short-circuit” time, the objects on show and their “aura”, showing how fashion is both a complex phenomenon and the perfect observatory for interpreting the tastes and trends of contemporary society.
The aim being to restore a sense of the “magnificent gait” with which Diana Vreeland processed through fashion of the 20th century, initially during her years at “Harper’s Bazaar” and “Vogue”, and then in her role as Special Consultant for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
At the exhibition, the visitor will be able to admire garments drawn from the history of fashion, which are coming to Italy for the first time, including some models by Yves Saint Laurent and Givenchy worn by Diana Vreeland, loaned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York. There will also be some extraordinary couture clothes by Balenciaga from the Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum, some of the most iconic creations by Saint Laurent from the Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent and, finally, other precious garments that have made some of the history of 20th-century fashion, loaned from prestigious private collections and company archives, and including such labels as Chanel, Missoni, Pucci, Schiaparelli, Valentino, together with costumes for the Ballets Russes.
The exhibition has been organised in collaboration with Mauro Grifoni and Vicenzaoro by Vicenza Fiera with the participation of Sistema Moda Veneto and Vente-Privée
Technical partners for the installation: Fusina and La Rosa Mannequins
Organisation and public relations: Civita Tre Venezie
English and Italian catalogue published by Marsilio
GENERAL INFORMATION
Venue: Palazzo Fortuny, San Marco 3780 – San Beneto, Venice, Italy
Press preview: Friday 9th March 2012 from 10 am to 12 noon
Open-day: Friday 9th March 2012 from 12 noon to 8 pm (by invitation only)
Open to the public: 10th March - 26th June 2012
Opening times: Daily from 10 am to 6 pm (ticket office 10 am – 5 pm)
Closed on Tuesdays
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