Palazzo Morando and the Fashion Quadrilateral

The Museum of Milan right between the streets of the Fashion Quadrilateral

A guided tour of Palazzo Morando Costume Fashion Image is the perfect opportunity to relive the essence of Fashion in Milan, starting with costumes and objects from a past with a refinedallure. Formerly the Museum of Milan, Palazzo Morando houses in its eighteenth-century tasteful rooms an itinerary dedicated to so many aspects of the city’s history, from urban planning to social life, from costume to economic history up to touching on the most intriguing curiosities related to illustrious personalities.

Let’s take a look at the streets surrounding the beautiful building on Via Sant’Andrea: we are in the Fashion Quadrilateral, the district that runs between Via Monte Napoleone, Corso Venezia, Via della Spiga and Via Manzoni. A corner of the city that in its sober elegance reveals more than others its Milanese-ness and the evolution of an all-Meneghine excellence, Fashion . Among shop windows and creations of the major griffes, known all over the world and an integral part of Milan’s history, many historic buildings are worth a visit, not only during Fashion Week!

Palazzo Morando: the precious collections of Milanese treasures with a special eye on fashion

In particular, as we cross the threshold of the silent courtyard of Palazzo Morando Attendolo Bolognini, we will find ourselves enveloped in an atmosphere of genteel elegance: in the heart of the Fashion Quadrilateral, here is the quiet of a Doric colonnade, the entrance passage to the 18th-century rooms of the aristocratic residence founded as early as the 16th century. Donated to the Municipality of Milan by Countess Lydia Attendolo Bolognini in 1945, the palace now houses a very rich collection: in addition to the Baroque-style furniture and decorations, not only paintings, prints and objects that tell the history and transformations of the city (already part of the exhibition of the former Museum of Milan, acquired by the Luigi Beretta fund in 1934)… today the textile treasures of the Collections of Applied Art of the Castello Sforzesco of Milan: dresses, uniforms, hats, footwear, lace and embroidery. A true journey, often surprising, through the fashions of yesteryear, to grasp all the value of haute couture and its aesthetic and technical evolutions.

Different ways, often parallel, to tell the story of a beautiful Milan in a whirlwind of social and economic transformations. To understand how Fashion, still an unaltered protagonist of the city of Milan, is one of the most complex manifestations of a society, indicative of customs, habits and habits, a mirror of political and artistic events that revolutionized past eras. A story within history, which our guides will be happy to share with you!