Museo de la Moda
Modernist family home turned fashion archive, holding centuries of couture and celebrity wardrobes.
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This guide to Museo de la Moda in Santiago follows textile magnate Jorge Yarur, who could not part with his mother's wardrobe after his parents died in 1991 and 1996, and the years in which grief became a full fashion foundation. It walks through the family's own modernist house, built in the early 1960s by Chilean architects working in Frank Lloyd Wright's shadow, before it opened to the public in July 2007. Along the way you'll meet garments reaching back to the sixteenth century. Listen for what the house's glass walls and Japanese-inflected gardens were never meant to hold.
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