Milan is celebrating the everlasting fashion of Mila Schön with an exhibition at Palazzo Reale.
But at the opening of 19 September 2008 just she was absent, “the lady of elegance”, “the queen of style”, dead at the age of 89 years, when her most famous creations were reaching the venue of the exposition.
Wanted to celebrate the 50 years of activity of the designer who was among the protagonists of the birth of the “Made in Italy”, the exhibition Mila Schön: Linee Colori Superfici is a dutiful tribute to the woman who made Milanese style synonymous with elegance in the world.
The exposition aims to emphasize the modernity, even the atemporality of Mila Schön’s fashion, and brings out aspirations, work and life of the artist.
Mila, whose real name was Maria Carmen Nutrizio, was born in 1919 in Trogir, in Dalmatia, and grew up in Trieste.
Wife of the merchant of precious Aurelio Schön, she moved to Milan in the immediate postwar period and reacted to the financial crisis that struck him by manufacturing clothes for her friends.
Character, talent, and the support of the Marquis Giovanni Battista Giorgini, brought her, in 1965, from the small workshop of Via S. Pietro all’Orto to Palazzo Pitti and into the international limelight.
Absolute perfectionist, tireless experimenter, very keen on contemporary art, Mila revolutionized shapes and materials, cutting and sewing, cleared the purple, pursued an ideal of sober, linear, strict elegance.
All this not to depart from that personal and unique style that allowed her to dress the great ladies of the international jet set.
Leaving the Dalmatian still in swaddling clothes, with her mother, brother and a few crowns, she has built an empire and has left behind amazing creations (the double cashmere, the geometric prints, surprising embroideries).
We of Alberghi delle donne thank Mila Schön, an example that as women entrepreneurs we tend, for having exalted femininity with a vision of infinite beauty.
You can visit the exhibition until October 12.
You can always wear a Mila Schön.