Museo Roberto Capucci, Florence/Italy

In an exclusive setting overlooking Florence, the renovated Villa Bardini dates from the Renaissance. It houses a museum for the life work of the Italian fashion designer Roberto Capucci, a 1950 prodigy. The name stands for internationally unrivalled women‘s fashion from Italy, blazing creativity and ability of the highest order. It stands for colorful phantasmagoria and extravagant formal design, breathtaking stage creations and exclusive materials, mostly specially made for an article of clothing to be worn on just one exceptional occasion. Capucci‘s creations range from styling to art, metamorphosing into ‚the art of clothing‘, ‚architectonic fashion design‘, ‚textile sculptures‘ and ‚works of art‘ – individual specimens of his work are to be found in the most famous art galleries and museums of the world. Roberto Capucci has personally been on the receiving end of enthusiastic compliments from princesses and First Ladies, prima donnas and opera singers, directors and fashion designers alike – among them Jacqueline Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Gloria Swanson and Rita Levi Montalcini, when she received her Nobel Prize for medicine in 1986. Capucci‘s clothes give ladies a magical aura, or so everyone says. It takes him three to five months to create a dress.