Things have been more than a triffle hectic this week as we moved office over the weekend from Canary Wharf to Shaftsbury Avenue in the heart of London's West End. While there were many attractions about working in CW it is exciting to be back in Central London.
The first thing I noticed this morning in my inbox was news of a fashion exhibition with a difference. I've said before how much of a growing interest there is in collecting vintage clothing so an exhibition in Milan will undoubtedly attract many visitors. It will also be very appealing because all of the clothes belonged to the legendary Greta Garbo.
The exhibition is the result of a collaboration between Ferragamo, founded by the famous shoemaker, Salvatore Ferragamo, who made many of Garbo’s shoes, and the star's great-nephew, Craig Reisfeld, son of her only niece, Gray Reisfeld; with loans from museums, private collections and costume institutes.
The exhibition will be in La Triennale, Milan's design museum and runs until Easter (4 April). Besides film clips, photographs and Garbo's screen costumes there is a display called “Everyday Elegance”, in which her “closet” is opened to reveal her personal – and extensive - collection of dresses, camel coats, raincoats, hats, scarves, and gloves; the inexpensive shirts, and the trousers – these she had made in Hollywood, by Watson, a tailorused by both Garbo and Marlene Dietrich.
