Title
Animalia FashionPosted In
ExhibitionDuration
08 January 2019 to 05 May 2019Venue
Palazzo PittiLocation
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Title | Animalia Fashion | Posted In | Exhibition | Duration | 08 January 2019 to 05 May 2019 |
Venue | Palazzo Pitti | Location |
Florence
Italy |
![Bernard Delettrez, Clutch. Animalier Collection, 2016. Bernard Delettrez, Clutch. Animalier Collection, 2016.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/f1_animalia_fashion_museum_of_costume_and_fashion_pitti_palace_florence_italy_yatzer.jpg)
Bernard Delettrez, Clutch. Animalier Collection, 2016.
![Anonymous, A spider on its web, 1547. London, Wellcome Collection. Anonymous, A spider on its web, 1547. London, Wellcome Collection.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/f2_animalia_fashion_museum_of_costume_and_fashion_pitti_palace_florence_italy_yatzer.jpg)
Anonymous, A spider on its web, 1547. London, Wellcome Collection.
![Maison Margiela by John Galliano, Dress. Artisanal Collection, Spring/Summer 2017. Photo © Andrea Acampa. Maison Margiela by John Galliano, Dress. Artisanal Collection, Spring/Summer 2017. Photo © Andrea Acampa.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/p1_animalia_fashion_museum_of_costume_and_fashion_pitti_palace_florence_italy_yatzer.jpg)
Maison Margiela by John Galliano, Dress. Artisanal Collection, Spring/Summer 2017. Photo © Andrea Acampa.
![Ulyana Sergeenko Couture, Fur coat. Fall/Winter 2013-14. Photo © Andrea Acampa. Ulyana Sergeenko Couture, Fur coat. Fall/Winter 2013-14. Photo © Andrea Acampa.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/f3_animalia_fashion_museum_of_costume_and_fashion_pitti_palace_florence_italy_yatzer.jpg)
Ulyana Sergeenko Couture, Fur coat. Fall/Winter 2013-14. Photo © Andrea Acampa.
![Katsuya Kamo, Hat “White fezzer”, 2008.
Red Valentino, Shoes “Swanny”, Pre-Fall 2014. Collezione Privata.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone. Katsuya Kamo, Hat “White fezzer”, 2008.
Red Valentino, Shoes “Swanny”, Pre-Fall 2014. Collezione Privata.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/f4_animalia_fashion_museum_of_costume_and_fashion_pitti_palace_florence_italy_yatzer.jpg)
Katsuya Kamo, Hat “White fezzer”, 2008.
Red Valentino, Shoes “Swanny”, Pre-Fall 2014. Collezione Privata.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone.
![Exhibition view (from left to right):
Yanina Couture, Dress, Ballet Collection, Spring/Summer 2016.
Fausto Sarli, Dress “Lunar eclipse”, Fall/Winter 2012-13 Alta Moda Roma.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone. Exhibition view (from left to right):
Yanina Couture, Dress, Ballet Collection, Spring/Summer 2016.
Fausto Sarli, Dress “Lunar eclipse”, Fall/Winter 2012-13 Alta Moda Roma.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/f5_animalia_fashion_museum_of_costume_and_fashion_pitti_palace_florence_italy_yatzer.jpg)
Exhibition view (from left to right):
Yanina Couture, Dress, Ballet Collection, Spring/Summer 2016.
Fausto Sarli, Dress “Lunar eclipse”, Fall/Winter 2012-13 Alta Moda Roma.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone.
![Fausto Sarli, Dress “Lunar eclipse”, Fall/Winter 2012-13 Alta Moda Roma. Photo © Antonio Quattrone. Fausto Sarli, Dress “Lunar eclipse”, Fall/Winter 2012-13 Alta Moda Roma. Photo © Antonio Quattrone.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/f6_animalia_fashion_museum_of_costume_and_fashion_pitti_palace_florence_italy_yatzer.jpg)
Fausto Sarli, Dress “Lunar eclipse”, Fall/Winter 2012-13 Alta Moda Roma. Photo © Antonio Quattrone.
Clothing, accessories, shoes and jewels by fashion houses such as Margiela, Schiaparelli, Christian Dior, Balmain, Chopard, or Mary Katrantzou engage in an ongoing conversation with real stuffed animals and snakes in formaldehyde from Florence's Museo di Storia Naturale La Specola, showcases with spiders from the Associazione Italiana di Aracnologia, old master paintings and exhibits borrowed from the Museo di Antropologia ed Etnografia di Firenze and reproductions of drawings taken from old bestiaries and pages of the medieval Tacuina Sanitatis. Opening with a section devoted to spiders, the exhibition guides us through swans, shells, hedgehogs, fish, coral, parrots, lobsters, babirusa, porcupinefish, snakes, beetles, flies, bees and crocodiles, to end up with butterflies, creating a bestiary vestiaire that confronts us with the true, raw architecture behind nature.
![Exhibition view (from left to right):
On Aura Tout Vu, Dress“Jet lag”, Spring/Summer 2016 Couture.
Iris van Herpen, Dress, Voltage Collection, Spring/Summer 2013 Couture.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone. Exhibition view (from left to right):
On Aura Tout Vu, Dress“Jet lag”, Spring/Summer 2016 Couture.
Iris van Herpen, Dress, Voltage Collection, Spring/Summer 2013 Couture.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/f7_animalia_fashion_museum_of_costume_and_fashion_pitti_palace_florence_italy_yatzer.jpg)
Exhibition view (from left to right):
On Aura Tout Vu, Dress“Jet lag”, Spring/Summer 2016 Couture.
Iris van Herpen, Dress, Voltage Collection, Spring/Summer 2013 Couture.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone.
![Lever Couture, Dress, Spring/Summer 2014. Photo © Antonio Quattrone. Lever Couture, Dress, Spring/Summer 2014. Photo © Antonio Quattrone.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/s1_animalia_fashion_museum_of_costume_and_fashion_pitti_palace_florence_italy_yatzer.jpg)
Lever Couture, Dress, Spring/Summer 2014. Photo © Antonio Quattrone.
![Exhibition view (from left to right):
Gareth Pugh, Dress, Spring/Summer 2018.
Valentino, Dress, Spring/Summer 2018.
Yiqin Yin, Dress “Calypso”, Les rives de Lunacy Collection. Fall/Winter 2013-14 Haute Couture.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone. Exhibition view (from left to right):
Gareth Pugh, Dress, Spring/Summer 2018.
Valentino, Dress, Spring/Summer 2018.
Yiqin Yin, Dress “Calypso”, Les rives de Lunacy Collection. Fall/Winter 2013-14 Haute Couture.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/s2_animalia_fashion_museum_of_costume_and_fashion_pitti_palace_florence_italy_yatzer.jpg)
Exhibition view (from left to right):
Gareth Pugh, Dress, Spring/Summer 2018.
Valentino, Dress, Spring/Summer 2018.
Yiqin Yin, Dress “Calypso”, Les rives de Lunacy Collection. Fall/Winter 2013-14 Haute Couture.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone.
![Sea nymph in Drawings for the costumes of "La Pellegrina" by Bernardo Buontalenti, 1589. Florence, Central National Library. Sea nymph in Drawings for the costumes of "La Pellegrina" by Bernardo Buontalenti, 1589. Florence, Central National Library.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/f8_animalia_fashion_museum_of_costume_and_fashion_pitti_palace_florence_italy_yatzer.jpg)
Sea nymph in Drawings for the costumes of "La Pellegrina" by Bernardo Buontalenti, 1589. Florence, Central National Library.
![Exhibition view (from left to right):
Coral branches, XVI century, Florence, Gallerie degli Uffizi, Treasure of the Grand Dukes.
Valentino, Clutch, Fall/Winter 2013-14 Couture.
Sergio Rossi, Sandals, Spring/Summer 2014.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone. Exhibition view (from left to right):
Coral branches, XVI century, Florence, Gallerie degli Uffizi, Treasure of the Grand Dukes.
Valentino, Clutch, Fall/Winter 2013-14 Couture.
Sergio Rossi, Sandals, Spring/Summer 2014.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/f9_animalia_fashion_museum_of_costume_and_fashion_pitti_palace_florence_italy_yatzer.jpg)
Exhibition view (from left to right):
Coral branches, XVI century, Florence, Gallerie degli Uffizi, Treasure of the Grand Dukes.
Valentino, Clutch, Fall/Winter 2013-14 Couture.
Sergio Rossi, Sandals, Spring/Summer 2014.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone.
![Sergio Rossi, Sandals, Spring/Summer 2014. Photo © Andrea Acampa. Sergio Rossi, Sandals, Spring/Summer 2014. Photo © Andrea Acampa.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/f10_animalia_fashion_museum_of_costume_and_fashion_pitti_palace_florence_italy_yatzer.jpg)
Sergio Rossi, Sandals, Spring/Summer 2014. Photo © Andrea Acampa.
This is a curation carefully set up to evoke thought: Art, in its purest form, is a means to understand and become familiar with what we want to know more of, in order to subconsciously either identify with or reject it. Fashion is art. And it is so personal, that it “apes nature” first and foremost, before anything else. Try to steer your mind away from leopard prints and zebra stripes that only photocopy nature’s ingenious designs, or even fluffy boas that simply imitate the decorative purpose of feathers. Prehistoric men did not cover their bodies in lion’s manes for the sole purpose of keeping warm. They needed, in a mystical sense, to gain kinship to the animal’s nature, its power and fearlessness. As we grew out of the forest and into the cities, our aesthetics flourished, and our understanding of the living world around us became one of our many conquests. The lion’s mane has now been replaced by subtractive depictions of nature’s patterns and technology has re-examined our realm of power within the animal kingdom. But we are still fantastic beasts with animal instincts and fashion still has the power to involve us in a new game of identification with our habitat.
![Dolce & Gabbana, Dress, Rinascimento Collection, Fall/Winter 2018-19 Alta Moda.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone. Dolce & Gabbana, Dress, Rinascimento Collection, Fall/Winter 2018-19 Alta Moda.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/f11_animalia_fashion_museum_of_costume_and_fashion_pitti_palace_florence_italy_yatzer.jpg)
Dolce & Gabbana, Dress, Rinascimento Collection, Fall/Winter 2018-19 Alta Moda.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone.
![Exhibition view (from left to right):
Marios Schwab, Dress “Isabel”. Fall/Winter 2015-16.
Maison Schiaparelli, Dress “La rose rouge”, Spring/Summer 2017.
Yiqin Yin, Dress “Voltige”, Moth Collection, Spring/Summer 2014 Haute Couture.
Maison Margiela By Matthieu Blazy, Dress, Artisanal Collection, Fall/Winter 2014-15.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone. Exhibition view (from left to right):
Marios Schwab, Dress “Isabel”. Fall/Winter 2015-16.
Maison Schiaparelli, Dress “La rose rouge”, Spring/Summer 2017.
Yiqin Yin, Dress “Voltige”, Moth Collection, Spring/Summer 2014 Haute Couture.
Maison Margiela By Matthieu Blazy, Dress, Artisanal Collection, Fall/Winter 2014-15.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/f12_animalia_fashion_museum_of_costume_and_fashion_pitti_palace_florence_italy_yatzer.jpg)
Exhibition view (from left to right):
Marios Schwab, Dress “Isabel”. Fall/Winter 2015-16.
Maison Schiaparelli, Dress “La rose rouge”, Spring/Summer 2017.
Yiqin Yin, Dress “Voltige”, Moth Collection, Spring/Summer 2014 Haute Couture.
Maison Margiela By Matthieu Blazy, Dress, Artisanal Collection, Fall/Winter 2014-15.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone.
![Katsuya Kamo, “White spikes” Hat, 2010.
Porcupine fish, Firenze, Museo di Storia Naturale, La Specola.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone. Katsuya Kamo, “White spikes” Hat, 2010.
Porcupine fish, Firenze, Museo di Storia Naturale, La Specola.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/s3_animalia_fashion_museum_of_costume_and_fashion_pitti_palace_florence_italy_yatzer.jpg)
Katsuya Kamo, “White spikes” Hat, 2010.
Porcupine fish, Firenze, Museo di Storia Naturale, La Specola.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone.
![Iris van Herpen, "Fang" shoesSpring / Summer 2012 Couture.
Babirussa teeth ornament, New Guinea, 19th century. Florence, Museum of Natural History, Anthropology and Ethnography, Ugo Biondi Collection.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone. Iris van Herpen, "Fang" shoesSpring / Summer 2012 Couture.
Babirussa teeth ornament, New Guinea, 19th century. Florence, Museum of Natural History, Anthropology and Ethnography, Ugo Biondi Collection.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/s4_animalia_fashion_museum_of_costume_and_fashion_pitti_palace_florence_italy_yatzer.jpg)
Iris van Herpen, "Fang" shoes
Spring / Summer 2012 Couture.
Babirussa teeth ornament, New Guinea, 19th century. Florence, Museum of Natural History, Anthropology and Ethnography, Ugo Biondi Collection.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone.
![Iris van Herpen, Dress, Capriole Collection, Fall/Winter 2011-12 Couture. Photo © Antonio Quattrone. Iris van Herpen, Dress, Capriole Collection, Fall/Winter 2011-12 Couture. Photo © Antonio Quattrone.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/s5_animalia_fashion_museum_of_costume_and_fashion_pitti_palace_florence_italy_yatzer.jpg)
Iris van Herpen, Dress, Capriole Collection, Fall/Winter 2011-12 Couture. Photo © Antonio Quattrone.
![Exhibition view (Jewels from top to bottom in a clockwise direction)
Lydia Courteille, Insect earrings, 2017.
Hemmerle, Butterfly brooch, 2004.
Roberto Coin, Cricket brooch, Animalier Collection, 2015.
Chopard, Caterpillar brooch, Animal world Collection, 2010.
Lorenz Baümer, Brooch “Scarabée d’automne”, 2016.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone. Exhibition view (Jewels from top to bottom in a clockwise direction)
Lydia Courteille, Insect earrings, 2017.
Hemmerle, Butterfly brooch, 2004.
Roberto Coin, Cricket brooch, Animalier Collection, 2015.
Chopard, Caterpillar brooch, Animal world Collection, 2010.
Lorenz Baümer, Brooch “Scarabée d’automne”, 2016.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/f13_animalia_fashion_museum_of_costume_and_fashion_pitti_palace_florence_italy_yatzer.jpg)
Exhibition view (Jewels from top to bottom in a clockwise direction)
Lydia Courteille, Insect earrings, 2017.
Hemmerle, Butterfly brooch, 2004.
Roberto Coin, Cricket brooch, Animalier Collection, 2015.
Chopard, Caterpillar brooch, Animal world Collection, 2010.
Lorenz Baümer, Brooch “Scarabée d’automne”, 2016.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone.
![Prada, “Entomology” bag. October 2013. Prada, “Entomology” bag. October 2013.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/s6_animalia_fashion_museum_of_costume_and_fashion_pitti_palace_florence_italy_yatzer.jpg)
Prada, “Entomology” bag. October 2013.
The exhibition, albeit entertaining and poetic, manages at the same time to sound an alarm at a time when climate change together with our gradually decreased interest in environmental issues are, in the end, actually threatening the existence of countless species. Art can pose serious questions, and haute couture might, ultimately, have the power to offer nature much more than it has received in return: Truly identifying with our cosmos and the living beings we share it with can today become a fundamentally political act.
![Iris van Herpen, Dress, Capriole Collection, Fall/Winter 2011-12. Photo © Antonio Quattrone. Iris van Herpen, Dress, Capriole Collection, Fall/Winter 2011-12. Photo © Antonio Quattrone.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/f14_animalia_fashion_museum_of_costume_and_fashion_pitti_palace_florence_italy_yatzer.jpg)
Iris van Herpen, Dress, Capriole Collection, Fall/Winter 2011-12. Photo © Antonio Quattrone.
![David Ferreira, Dress, Spring/Summer 2016. Photo © Antonio Quattrone. David Ferreira, Dress, Spring/Summer 2016. Photo © Antonio Quattrone.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/f15_animalia_fashion_museum_of_costume_and_fashion_pitti_palace_florence_italy_yatzer.jpg)
David Ferreira, Dress, Spring/Summer 2016. Photo © Antonio Quattrone.
![Mary Katrantzou, Dress, Spring/Summer 2019. Photo © Antonio Quattrone. Mary Katrantzou, Dress, Spring/Summer 2019. Photo © Antonio Quattrone.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/f16_animalia_fashion_museum_of_costume_and_fashion_pitti_palace_florence_italy_yatzer.jpg)
Mary Katrantzou, Dress, Spring/Summer 2019. Photo © Antonio Quattrone.
![Roberto Coin, cricket brooch. Animalier Collection, 2015. Roberto Coin, cricket brooch. Animalier Collection, 2015.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/f17_animalia_fashion_museum_of_costume_and_fashion_pitti_palace_florence_italy_yatzer.jpg)
Roberto Coin, cricket brooch. Animalier Collection, 2015.
![Jewels from top to bottom in a clockwise direction:
Lydia Courteille, Insect earrings, 2017.
Hemmerle, Butterfly brooch, 2004.
Roberto Coin, Cricket brooch, Animalier Collection, 2015.
Chopard, Caterpillar brooch, Animal world Collection, 2010.
Lorenz Baümer, "Scarabée d'automne" brooch, 2016.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone. Jewels from top to bottom in a clockwise direction:
Lydia Courteille, Insect earrings, 2017.
Hemmerle, Butterfly brooch, 2004.
Roberto Coin, Cricket brooch, Animalier Collection, 2015.
Chopard, Caterpillar brooch, Animal world Collection, 2010.
Lorenz Baümer, "Scarabée d'automne" brooch, 2016.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/p5_animalia_fashion_museum_of_costume_and_fashion_pitti_palace_florence_italy_yatzer.jpg)
Jewels from top to bottom in a clockwise direction:
Lydia Courteille, Insect earrings, 2017.
Hemmerle, Butterfly brooch, 2004.
Roberto Coin, Cricket brooch, Animalier Collection, 2015.
Chopard, Caterpillar brooch, Animal world Collection, 2010.
Lorenz Baümer, "Scarabée d'automne" brooch, 2016.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone.
![Iris van Herpen “Fang” shoes. Spring/Summer 2012 Couture. Photo © Antonio Quattrone. Iris van Herpen “Fang” shoes. Spring/Summer 2012 Couture. Photo © Antonio Quattrone.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/s7_animalia_fashion_museum_of_costume_and_fashion_pitti_palace_florence_italy_yatzer.jpg)
Iris van Herpen “Fang” shoes. Spring/Summer 2012 Couture. Photo © Antonio Quattrone.
![Exhibition view (from left to right):
Salvatore Ferragamo, Sandals. Capsule Collection by Edgardo Osorio, Spring / Summer 2016, Florence, Salvatore Ferragamo Museum.
Judith Leiber Couture, "Scarlet" parrot clutch, 2018.
Charlotte Olympia, "Birds of Paradise" sandals, Capsule Collection 2018.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone. Exhibition view (from left to right):
Salvatore Ferragamo, Sandals. Capsule Collection by Edgardo Osorio, Spring / Summer 2016, Florence, Salvatore Ferragamo Museum.
Judith Leiber Couture, "Scarlet" parrot clutch, 2018.
Charlotte Olympia, "Birds of Paradise" sandals, Capsule Collection 2018.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/f18_animalia_fashion_museum_of_costume_and_fashion_pitti_palace_florence_italy_yatzer.jpg)
Exhibition view (from left to right):
Salvatore Ferragamo, Sandals. Capsule Collection by Edgardo Osorio, Spring / Summer 2016, Florence, Salvatore Ferragamo Museum.
Judith Leiber Couture, "Scarlet" parrot clutch, 2018.
Charlotte Olympia, "Birds of Paradise" sandals, Capsule Collection 2018.
Photo © Antonio Quattrone.