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closed The essential superfluous.

The show

Far from being superfluous, fashion accessories have represented real status symbols for centuries, capable of immediately revealing not only the social class to which they belong but, sometimes, also the personality of those who wore them. The Coronini collections, linked to the events of an ancient aristocratic family, offer from this point of view a privileged observatory to discover, even with the support of paintings and photographs, how each era had its "style icons", with its own rules and ceremonials that governed their use and that conditioned the habits of daily life. The eighteenth century, for example, was the century of the fan, the nineteenth century saw the triumph of the hat, while the handbag, which today is one of the trendiest accessories, became indispensable only in the twentieth century. Alongside them, many other objects, sometimes a little out of fashion, such as walking sticks, handkerchiefs, laces, shawls and snuffboxes, intend to reveal the taste and style of the last descendants of the Coronini counts, in an evocative journey back in time, to the discovery of epochs in which the ability to handle a fan or to make a perfect tie knot were indispensable requisites to be considered true ladies or perfect gentlemen.

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Viale XX Settembre, 14
34170 Gorizia

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