Wearing Beauty. The Great Italian Costume Jewellery.

The costume jewellery tells the Italian history through the Murano glass, the Neaples coral, the Florentine straw, the Roman micro mosaics, the plastics and the non precious metals invented during the autarchy, the Dolce Vita life style and the experimentation of Sixties, the birth of Made in Italy and the most important fashion brands.

The exhibition show the habits and the taste evolution of a population that made and consolidate a taste of Beauty even through the fashion accessorizes and the costume jewellery.
While jewellery talks about the status symbol and economic power of a minor part of people, costume jewellery express the taste of a large community telling its various cultural expressions.

To talk about Italian costume jewellery means to tell the story of the habits, the costumes of a population that always wanted to unify the various local regional traditions in one shared codex of Beauty.

Jewelry on display: 
Angela Caputi - Giuggiù, Armani, Artigiana Fiorentina jewelery, Bijoux Bozart, Bijoux Cascio, Clotilde Silva, Corbella, Ugo Correani, Coppola and Toppo, De Liguori, Ferenaz, Gattinoni, Fendi, Giuliano Fratti, Lo.Sa, Luciana de Reutern, Ken Scott, Mazzucco Romano, Ercole Moretti, Moschino, Museo del Bijou of Casalmaggiore, Ornella Bijoux, Ottavio Re, Sharra Pagano, Pellini Bijoux, Sent Sisters, Brothers Traversari, Unger, Carlo Zini.

Exhibition catalogue is edited by Sillabe

Opening on 19th March at 5pm