Beautiful. Italy haute couture 1945-1968

It's Beautiful. Italy haute couture 1945-1968 (2 December 2014 – 3 May 2015), exhibition curated by Maria Luisa Frisa, Enter the Mattirolo, Stefano Tonchi that, privileged through the lens of fashion, portrays the Italian culture at a time of extraordinary creativity (in movies, art, architecture, in the theater, in the photograph) and revives the MAXXI atmospheres and styles of a period which has contributed in a unique way to define the character Italian international.
Bulgari, of 130 years a symbol of creativity and excellence, is the main partner of this project. The MAXXI therefore open its space to fashion, excellence of our country, describing the period after World War II (1945 – 1968), through the exhibition and a book that accompanies the, the rich iconographic, created in collaboration with Altaroma.
The sample, through the preparation of the architect Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo, becomes the device to wake the atmosphere and charm of Italian haute couture. Evening dresses for day and made by artists such as Maria Antonelli, Renato Balestra, Biki, Carosa, Roberto Capucci, Gigliola Curiel, Fendi, Sorelle Fontana, Irene Galitzine, Fernanda Gattinoni, German Marucelli, Mingolini-Gugenheim, Fausto Sarli, Mila Schön, Emilio Schuberth, Simonetta and Fabiani, Valentino, Jole Veneziani come to life through a choreography of dummies La Rosa and rebuild a galaxy of voices often characterized by a very close relationship with the world of art and cinema.
In mostra, inter alia, The famous dress "Pretino", created by Sorelle Fontana for Ava Gardner in 1955 and then taken up by Anita Ekberg in Fellini's Dolce Vita: inspired by the robes of cardinals, simple and funny at the same time. And then one of the sparkling gowns designed by Mina Fausto Sarli in the sixties for the television program Studio One.
Enrich the exhibition of Ferragamo accessories, Fragiacomo, Gucci, Roberta di Camerino and jewelery Coppola e Toppo, Movies that reveal the great effervescence of Italian fashion.
Mark the exhibition's photographs Pasquale De Antonis, Frederick Garolla, Ugo Mulas, exceptional authors through their pictures told the Italian fashion and its landscapes.
To underline the complicity between art and fashion that has deeply marked those years, showcasing works by Lucio Fontana, Alberto Husband, Paul Chip, Campigli, Getulio Alviani, and even Carla Accardi and Capogrossi, many of which are in the collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art, evidence of experimentation and creative vitality of an era exceptional.