Tintoretto, William Hamilton, George Romney, Francesco Hayez, Silvestro Lega, Telemaco Signorini, James Tissot, Giovanni Boldini, Vittorio Corcos, Henry Matisse, Josef Hoffmann, Giacomo Balla, Piet Mondrian, Umberto Boccioni, Giorgio de Chirico, Damien Hirst together with Charles Frederick Worth, Ventura, Mariano Fortuny, Paul Poiret, Salvatore Ferragamo, Coco Chanel, Germana Marucelli, Valentino Garavani and PierpaoloPiccioli, Giorgio Armani, Christian Dior by John Galliano, Gucci, Prada, Tom Ford, Cristobal Balenciaga, Yohij Yamamoto: these are just a few of the 100 artists and 50 stylists and couturiers protagonists of The art of fashion. The age of dreams and revolutions, 1789 - 1968, the great exhibition conceived and created by the Cassa dei Risparmi di Forlì Foundation in the spaces of the San Domenico Civic Museum, from 18 March to 2 July 2023.

Directed by Gianfranco Brunelli and curated by Cristina Acidini, Enrico Colle, Fabiana Giacomotti and Fernando Mazzocca, the exhibition is dedicated to the fascinating relationship between art and fashion. The period taken into consideration spans three centuries: from the Ancien Régime to the second half of the twentieth century.

A unique tale. An exhibition of comparisons that includes over 300 works, including paintings, sculptures, accessories, period and contemporary clothing. The Forlì exhibition, the first of its kind, resembles a real blockbuster.

The works, which from the eighteenth century cross the French Revolution, Romanticism, the Maquis, Impressionism, Symbolism and all the twentieth-century avant-garde up to today, identify a relationship between art and fashion where art reflects, creates and makes fashion and fashion definitely belongs to the arts.

Fashion painted, portrayed, sculpted, created by great artists. The dress that models, hides, dissimulates and promises the body. The dress as a sign of power, wealth, recognition, protest. As a distinctive figure of a social status or identifier of a generation. Fashion as work and behaviour. Art as a story and as a feeling of time.