The brand celebrates the history of silk starting from ancient China, and their use of the lavish fabric in this exhibition, running from 25 March 2021 till 18 April 2022.
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While the name Ferragamo was synonymous with the creation of women?s shoes until 1950, Salvatore Ferragamo, the brand?s founder, wanted to expand their catalogue to include all forms of clothing to dress women from head to toe. However, it wasn?t until the 1970s that this dream was fully realised with the help of his daughter Fulvia Ferragamo who launched continuous production of silk accessories for both men and women. With this new exhibition at the Museo Ferragamo in Florence, Italy, the fashion house traces the origins of silk back to ancient China and the silk road, and its historic relationship with the timeless fabric.
While Fulvia Ferragamo was a student at the Poggio Imperiale school for girls, she stayed in the fabled Chinese Apartment. Its rooms, decorated with watercolours depicting life in ancient China, silk-making and rice cultivation, started her fascination with silk and later came to greatly influence her designs. She was a cultured woman however, and soon drew inspiration from other sources such as ancient books and exotic flora and fauna, which are the most recurring themes in Ferragamo?s range of silk ties and scarves respectively. Through the vibrant exhibition, SILK takes viewers...