The key points
- Scarf with exclusive designs
- The origin of the prints revealed
- Dialogue between art and fashion, space for young people
Nature and animals, exotic landscapes, jungles and fantastic savannas. Ferragamo celebrates the world of silk, and in particular the maison’s scarves made since the 1970s – under the direction and inspiration of Fulvia Ferragamo, fourth of the six children of the founder of the house, Salvatore – with the fabrics of the Como factories Ravasi, Butti and Ostinelli, Ghioldi, Canepa, Ratti and Mantero.
The exhibition at the Ferragamo Museum and in virtual tour
The exhibition is dedicated to Fulvia, who died prematurely in 2018 “Arrow” set up (until April 2022) at the Ferragamo Museum in Florence, which for now can only be visited online (thanks to a virtual tour in Italian and English accessible on the museum.ferragamo.com website), which will be open to the public as soon as the anti- Covid will allow it.
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It was Fulvia who started, 50 years ago, a continuous production of silk accessories for women and men (until then Ferragamo bought them from external companies), characterized by exclusive designs inspired by her travels and passions: the Orient, nature, animals, from tiger to lion, from panther to ducks, herons, pheasants, penguins, parrots with fascinating chromatic contrasts.
Scarves and works of art
The exhibition, curated by the director of the Museum Stefania Ricci, now makes the scarves dialogue with the objects and works of art that inspired them, reconstructing the creative and cultural itinerary at the origin of the prints. Like the samurai on horseback painted on a foulard that reproduces an armor identical to that kept in the permanent collection of the Stibbert Museum in Florence, or the poppies on one of the nineties prints which are the reproduction of an engraved table of one of the most beautiful books of botany of 1613, l‘Hortus Eystettensis Basil Besler gods.
Contemporary artists are the protagonists
Once again, in order to promote the dialogue between art and fashion, Ferragamo involves contemporary artists: in this case the exhibition begins with a site specific installation by two Chinese artists, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, entitled «Were creatures born celestial? », Which represents the Silk Road as a terrain for commercial and cultural exchanges between East and West.