Brought in especially for the project, Ms. Capitano was instrumental in assisting Ms. Pucci and two young women recruited from the ranks of international fashion schools to mine the archives. “There is so much narrative, in a certain sense we who lived it don’t know how to see it anymore,” Ms. Pucci said. A historical display of women’s clothes put on during Pitti Uomo, the biggest men’s wear trade fair in Italy, seems distinctly counterintuitive unless framed within a larger Italian context. With well more than 20,000 visitors, Pitti Uomo imports to Florence for three or more days a highly particular population, one heavily representative of Asia and its coveted markets. “Five planes a day come to Paris from China and we get one per day in Milan,” Ms. Pucci said, with none coming directly to this Renaissance city.

Source: New York Times June 13, 2018 14:03 UTC