The Costume Gallery at the Pitti Palace in Florence has just re-opened after two years of restoration work. The museum, housed in the Palazzina della Meridiana built by Grand Duke Leopold of Lorena in 1776, contains over 6,000 costumes dating from the 17th-century to the present day, and constitutes the oldest collection of its kind. The latest addition is a donation by Gianfranco Ferré of 300 of his own pieces - both clothes and accessories - from haute couture and prêt-à-porter-collections from 1986.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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