Silvia Mira

Silvia Mira is an art and costume historian. She curates the exhibition «Roberto Capucci. Vestire LE muse» ("Dressing the muses"), staged at the Accorsi-Ometto Museum of Decorative Arts in Turin, at via Po 55, from 6 November 2026 to 28 February 2027.^[1][4]

The exhibition on Roberto Capucci

The exhibition, curated by Silvia Mira, traces the work of the Roman fashion designer Roberto Capucci through fifty garments that belonged to women of culture, the arts, science and the aristocracy, from Duchess Maria Luisa Gaetani d'Aragona to the Nasi sisters, from actresses such as Silvana Pampanini, Lucia Bosè, Catherine Spaak and Valentina Cortese to opera singers such as Raina Kabaivanska and Katia Ricciarelli, down to Rita Levi Montalcini.^[1]

In the curatorial text accompanying the exhibition, Silvia Mira presents Capucci not as a fashion designer or tailor, but as a sculptor-artist, trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, whose creations are described as "architectures of silk". The essay places Capucci's work within the history of costume, from the calcagnini and verdugati of the fifteenth century to the crinolines of the nineteenth, and gives particular attention to the gown made for Rita Levi Montalcini for the award of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1986, whose lines draw on the paintings of Paolo Uccello.^[1]

Sources

1. Il Museo di Arti Decorative Accorsi-Ometto rende omaggio a Roberto Capucci e alle muse che hanno ispirato il suo genio creativo — Prima Torino, 6 November 2026
2. Il Museo di Arti Decorative Accorsi-Ometto rende omaggio a Roberto Capucci e alle muse che hanno ispirato il suo genio creativo — Prima il Canavese, 6 November 2026
3. Il Museo di Arti Decorative Accorsi-Ometto rende omaggio a Roberto Capucci e alle muse che hanno ispirato il suo genio creativo — Prima Chivasso, 6 November 2026
4. Vestire le muse: a Torino in mostra la bellezza secondo Capucci — La Voce e il Tempo, 6 November 2026