The Museum of Fashion and Costume has reopened at the Palazzo Pitti after three years of closure caused by the Covid pandemic. Twelve new rooms show more than fifty outfits and myriad accessories, including a Mariano Fortuny kimono once worn by Italian actress Eleonora Duse, a 1920s flapper tunic by Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli’s showy eveningwear and a black sheath styled by Jean Paul Gaultier for Madonna. Masterpieces by Miuccia Prada, Giorgio Armani and John Galliano are also on show.

The 12 rooms, plus the 19th-century ballroom, occupied by the Museo della Moda e del Costume have been renovated 40 years after the foundation of the fashion museum in the Palazzo Pitti. In the spring, another ten rooms will be opened to the public showing aristocratic looks dating from the 16th to the 19th century, in addition to an entire hall devoted to jewellery.