What is the source of inspiration for an artist? How is it prepared? These are the questions underlying the exhibition "Salvatore Ferragamo: Inspiration and Vision" that the city of Florence has decided to dedicate to the great Italian fashion brand (Palazzo Spini Ferroni, May 27, 2011 - March 12, 2012).
In the case of Salvatore Ferragamo, there are two moments in his life when there were favorable conditions for the processing of inspirations and visions that would affect its future. In the first instance is the arrival in California in the mid-ten, which states as 'shoemaker to the stars'.
Here is a hotbed of experimentation in other fueled by the discovery of the funerary treasures of King Tut in 1922, which in the film reveals creative potential, harnessed by Ferragamo sandals in the great film director Cecil B. DeMille commissioned for actors in the film "The Ten Commandments." The other important element is his return to Florence in 1927, a city in the twenties in the middle of the cultural life of the country.
In Florence, Ferragamo is struck by the beauty of the monuments and imaginative public and private collections of applied art, such as Frederick Stibbert, the Archaeological Museum of Natural History and Anthropology. In addition to these stimuli, Ferragamo is fascinated by avant-garde art of those years, the future, but also Thayaht, Sonia Delaunay, Duchamp, Gio Ponti.
On display 255 works, including 99 models of shoes from the twenties to the end of 1950, and 156 works of art from international collections but mainly Italian and Florentine. 
In the case of Salvatore Ferragamo, there are two moments in his life when there were favorable conditions for the processing of inspirations and visions that would affect its future. In the first instance is the arrival in California in the mid-ten, which states as 'shoemaker to the stars'.
Here is a hotbed of experimentation in other fueled by the discovery of the funerary treasures of King Tut in 1922, which in the film reveals creative potential, harnessed by Ferragamo sandals in the great film director Cecil B. DeMille commissioned for actors in the film "The Ten Commandments." The other important element is his return to Florence in 1927, a city in the twenties in the middle of the cultural life of the country.
In Florence, Ferragamo is struck by the beauty of the monuments and imaginative public and private collections of applied art, such as Frederick Stibbert, the Archaeological Museum of Natural History and Anthropology. In addition to these stimuli, Ferragamo is fascinated by avant-garde art of those years, the future, but also Thayaht, Sonia Delaunay, Duchamp, Gio Ponti.
On display 255 works, including 99 models of shoes from the twenties to the end of 1950, and 156 works of art from international collections but mainly Italian and Florentine.
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