Special Opening of the FLA Museum for ApritiModa, October 25–26. The FLA Museum will open its doors for ApritiModa, the event that, over one weekend, brings together more than one hundred ateliers, workshops, museums, and companies, supported by Camera Moda, Fondazione Cologni, and Altagamma, under the patronage of the Italian Ministry of Culture and the City of Milan.
In the Atelier space, the FLA Museum invites visitors to rediscover the exhibition “Grazie Giorgio – The Influence of Giorgio Armani’s Fashion in the Works of Flavio Lucchini”, a narrative told through sculptures, paintings, and digital artworks that celebrate the professional and personal bond between the artist and the designer. Their story began in 1975, when Armani launched his own line with the support of Lucchini, then art director and editor of Vogue and L’Uomo Vogue, and among the first to recognize Armani’s extraordinary talent.
In the museum’s underground spaces, two special presences: two women, two artists, two creative visions.
In The Lab—the area dedicated to emerging talents—the spotlight will be on Gaja Lucchini, a multifaceted artist, choreographer, dancer, and fashion designer specializing in evening gowns and theatrical costumes. Based in Dubai, where her atelier MissGaja is also located, she presents a selection of visionary sketches for her creations, “A Dream Is a Wish…”, stage garments meticulously designed to evoke distant atmospheres, dreamlike imagery, and theatrical worlds suspended in time. On display are also some of the costumes created for musicals at the American School of Dubai, along with a selection of prom dresses full of charm and refinement, yet distinctly contemporary.
In the Made in Italy room, the museum hosts the installation “Between Sky and Earth” by Angela Carrubba Pintaldi, a fashion designer and internationally acclaimed artist known for her sculptural jewelry. Her creations have been worn by members of the international jet set, sold in exclusive boutiques in Paris and New York, and featured in Christie’s and Sotheby’s catalogs. The installation creates a dialogue between the stones of the Earth—aquamarine, turquoise, coral, amber, pearl, obsidian, lapis lazuli, diamonds—and the gems of the Sky, represented by meteorites and a fine circular wire that connects their symbolic energy. These are jewels not merely to be worn, but true works of art with timeless allure.
Free guided tours by reservation:
https://www.apritimoda.it/it/event/86/fla_flaviolucchiniart_museum
MissGaja
Angela Carrubba Pintaldi
Flavio Lucchini