Do you Remember the performance by Vanessa Beecroft in the Tepidarium of Horticultural Garden in Florence in June 2004? Twentyone nude models faced the audience on a mound of dark earth, In the largest nineteenth century Italian greenhouse. The models wore only a pair of Helmut Lang shoes with ankle straps and heels sunk into the ground. They seemed flowers planted in the ground. Some wore nylon caps, they were buds; others wore long wigs similar to the iconography of the fifteenth-century penitent Mary Magdalene. The models had to stand as long as possible, but could also fall to the…

The Museo La Specola Firenze boasts the oldest anatomical and zoological collection of Europe. It’s a real archive not only for scientists and researchers, but also for stylists and fashion designers.