Travel & Living
Inside the New Exhibition at Salvatore Ferragamo's Florentine Museum
Titled Silk, the exhibition at the Museo Salvatore Ferragamo celebrates 50 years of printed accessories and recalls the figure of Fulvia Ferragamo, the daughter of the brand's founder.
Curated by Stefania Ricci and Judith Clark, Silk tells the story of Ferragamo's adventure into the production of printed accessories, which began in 1971 when Salvatore Ferragamo's own daughter, Fulvia, joined the fashion company. One of six children, she brought with her imagery that drew from her childhood spent at the Collegio della SS Annunziata del Poggio Imperiale—the the first female boarding school in Florence. There Pietro Leopoldo di Lorena had brought tempera colors, papers, fabric, watercolors, and ceramics from China, which enriched the young Fulvia, who began collecting incredible objects, fabrics, and stones herself that filled an infinite series of moodboards. From these, Ferragamo's graphics of the scarves were born: with jungles and fantastic savannas, landscapes with exotic, and imaginary flowers. See more below from the exhibition, which is now on view at the Museo Salvatore Ferragamo in Florence.
The show is further enriched by the site specific installation "Were Creatures Born Celestial?" by Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, two of the most noted and discussed contemporary artists of the most recent Venice Biennale.
