By Anna & Maria Sciacca
Palazzo Pucci in Florence is a private estate and a cultural heritage of Italian fashion excellence since 1947, when the fashion designer Emilio Pucci created his garments at the sartorial workshop, presented his collections, and received clients at his showroom, establishing his own fashion brand in the prestigious Renaissance palace.
In the galleries and salons of Palazzo Pucci, furnishings, paintings, carpets, ceramics, crystals, perfumes, sculptures, armchairs upholstered in colorful prints, and a display of mannequins wearing Pucci clothing create an environment of art, fashion, and design.
The creativity and beauty of Emilio Pucci’s fashion collections, clothes, accessories such as bags and foulards, drawings, photographs, and videos are collected at the Emilio Pucci Heritage Hub, inaugurated in 2018 at Palazzo Pucci N6, a museum dedicated to preserving and restoring his fashion creations.
Bonaveri, a global manufacturer of mannequins, collaborated with the Pucci brand at the exhibition “Bonaveri — A fan of Pucci”. The exhibition featured Bonaveri mannequins and busts from the Schlappi, Tribe, and Sartorial collections; some models were decorated, and other mannequins wore Pucci’s light and flowing silk jersey dresses, caftans, and trousers in their unique, colorful artistic prints.
The fashion designer Emilio Pucci has made many variations of the designs printed on his dresses, based on his original Vivara pattern, which accompanied the launch of the perfume Vivara in 1965. The swirling colors lime green, yellow, turquoise, fuchsia, and pink were inspired by Italian landscapes and travels around the world. His light and comfortable clothes in psychedelic and ethnic colors and shapes express the freedom and joy of the sixties.
Laudomia Pucci, President of the Emilio Pucci Heritage Hub, has also created, for visitors who come by appointment, a pleasant Lounge for meetings and events, where they can relax before or after the visit, have a drink, or find books, catalogs, and many articles at the boutique of Palazzo Pucci. https://emiliopucciheritage.com/hub/
