MFIT on the Road
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The Museum at FIT often loans objects from its permanent collections to other institutions to use in exhibitions. Watch this space for venues featuring MFIT on the road.
Renaissance to Runway: The Enduring Italian Houses
November 9, 2025 – February 1, 2026
The Museum at FIT has loaned three objects, one each by Emilio Pucci, Romeo Gigli, and Versace, to Renaissance to Runway: The Enduring Italian Houses. Through the majestic creations of more than 100 modern and contemporary Italian fashions and accessories in dialogue with Italian fine, decorative, and textile arts from the 1400s to the early 1600s, Renaissance to Runway: The Enduring Italian Houses examines the art historical inspirations that fuel recent creative Italian lexicon, expanding fantasies of the Renaissance, Mannerist, and early Baroque periods. This exhibition illustrates how fashion, in all of its change, is a continuous thread that uncovers history’s complexities as it materializes contemporary beauty.
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, Ohio
Image: Romeo Gigli, shoes, silk faille with silk ribbon flowers and leaves, spring/summer 1998, Italy, gift of Romeo Gigli, 98.123.2