Generous donation to Florence's Galleria del Costume




Florence's Galleria del Costume in the Palazzo Pitti has generously been donated a Haute-Couture collection of French designers' gowns - the likes of Dior, Chanel and Nina Ricci - by Cecilia Matteucci Lavarini, a couture-collector and philanthropist who regularly buys at auctions in New York, London and Paris.