Eike Schmidt Plans Fashion Museum at Uffizi; Stolen Verona Paintings Recovered in Ukraine
Eike Schmidt, director of the Uffizi Galleries, has unveiled plans to revamp the Galleria del Costume into a significant museum dedicated to Italian fashion. This project will enhance display areas and adopt preservation techniques modeled after the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Collaborators include the Centro di Firenze per la Moda Italiana, Pitti Immagine, and Fondazione Pitti Discovery, with a three-year partnership. The initiative will kick off with an exhibition of 200 photographs by Karl Lagerfeld at Palazzo Pitti, a key site in Italy's fashion history. Meanwhile, La Stampa has reported the recovery of 17 stolen paintings from Museo di Castelvecchio.
Key facts
- Eike Schmidt plans to expand the Galleria del Costume into a major fashion museum.
- The museum will adopt conservation models from the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- A three-year agreement involves Uffizi, Centro di Firenze per la Moda Italiana, Pitti Immagine, and Fondazione Pitti Discovery.
- An exhibition of 200 photographs by Karl Lagerfeld will open at Palazzo Pitti.
- Seventeen paintings were stolen from Museo di Castelvecchio in Verona on November 19, 2015.
- The stolen paintings were recovered in the Odessa region of Ukraine.
- Ten Moldovan and three Italian suspects were arrested in March 2016.
- Franco Zeffirelli's Roman home on the Appian Way was featured by La Repubblica.
Entities
Artists
- Eike Schmidt
- Karl Lagerfeld
- Franco Zeffirelli
Institutions
- Gallerie degli Uffizi
- Galleria del Costume
- Victoria & Albert Museum
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Centro di Firenze per la Moda Italiana
- Pitti Immagine
- Fondazione Pitti Discovery
- Palazzo Pitti
- Museo di Castelvecchio
- La Stampa
- La Repubblica
Locations
- Florence
- Italy
- London
- United Kingdom
- New York
- United States
- Verona
- Ukraine
- Odessa
- Moldova
- Rome
- Appian Way