ITALY. Florence Fashion "Biennale". VALENTINO at the Galleria dell'Academia with the original marble of Michelangelo's David.

Fashion and art (which occupy aprox. 160.000 square feet) form the centerpiece of the first Florence Biennale, "Time and Fashion". Artistic Directors are Germano Celant, Luigi Settembrini and Ingrid Sischy. Many of the most remarkable exhibition spaces in Florence and Prato will, for a three month period, be devoted to multidisciplinary exploration of the ways in which art and fashion overlap, interact, coexist and influence each other.