Fashion Once Again Enters a Museum in Milan

MILAN — Staged at the storied home museum Poldi Pezzoli in Milan, the exhibition “Memos. On fashion in this millennium,” was unveiled during the city’s fashion week and runs until May 4 as a reflection on what has changed and stayed the same in fashion, said curator Maria Luisa Frisa. Arthur Arbesser, Balenciaga by Demna Gvasalia, Burberry by Riccardo Tisci, Chanel by Karl Lagerfeld, Dior by Maria Grazia Chiuri, Fendi by Silvia Venturini Fendi, Valentino by Pierpaolo Piccioli, Giorgio Armani, Prada, Giambattista Valli and Versace are only some of the designers and brands present through their clothes. “To exhibit fashion is at the same time to celebrate it and to provide a critical reading of it,” said Carlo Capasa, president of the Italian Camera della Moda, which staged the event. “The idea behind fashion exhibitions is not to propose fashion as an art, but rather to use it as a way to read society.” This exhibition “asks questions, offers proposals, not closure, with the goal to prompt a series of reflections on contemporary fashion, on its qualities and attributes,” continued Capasa. The starting point is “Six Memos for the Next Millennium,” a book based on a series of lectures written by Italo Calvino for

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