Vintage clothes, Prints, objects Napoleonic period tell fashion as a phenomenon and power. It opens at Milan “Napoleon and the Empire of Fashion, ” an exhibition that tells that a fundamental period of history of costume Through the daily life of the Napoleonic period with different outfits linked to the seasons and different occasions, elaborate hairstyles and the birth of the first Fashion Magazine. The exhibition was curated by Cristina Barreto and Martin Lancaster the two editors have made available their private collections result of intensive research and personal passion for the eighteenth-century period.

It is with Napoleon Bonaparte In fact, that fashion becomes the first instrument of power. The company is affected by changes set in motion by economic development and trade, daily life is affected by the new political order in Europe and in the colonies and the period also enshrines the birth of the first “Fashion victims” history and the bases of modern industry. Just at this time the main topic of conversation in the salons of the new rich is the choice of tailor and hair dresser. Following these events will develop the trade press, including magazine costume Parisien.

Napoleon and the Empire of fashion will be on depicting until September 12 to Triennale di Milano. Complete the review thousands of prints and accessories. Starting from the years of the Directory whose extravagant style gives way to more sober habits dictated by Bourbon Restoration, Through the Victorian Puritanism brand. The transformation of women’s fashion observed the transformation of menswear with the figure of the military, always present in this period.