Visit to the Ferragamo Museo

I really enjoyed the visit to the Ferragamo Museo. The shoes were gorgeous and so impressive. They had so much detail, it was very interesting to hear about each shoe and to learn what they were made out of and what Ferragamo was thinking when he created them.

He had to be very creative in making his shoes because he was working during tough economic times. He needed to makes shoes affordable by using cheaper material, like using cork for the heel, and he had to make do with the resources he had available to him. For example, Ferragamo used candy paper, invisible fishing line, and even fish skin that looked of leather because during the war he could not import any materials and had to use what he had available to him.

Ferragamo was a genius, I throughly enjoyed looking at every single pair of shoes they had at the museum. My favorite pair were the black and white ones, they were just very modern looking. I also really liked that I saw a pair of shoes in the museum that are still being sold today. They are the black mesh with colored circles. They also have  gold trim and gold heels. 

I was also very impressed that Ferragamo had 150 patents that all revolved around the shoe. He even patented having steel in the heel so that it wouldn't break. I found him to be very inspiring. He's craft of shoe making was incredible to see. I really enjoyed myself.

The Marilyn Monroe exhibit was really cool also. My favorite room was the one with the sculptures and pictures of Marilyn, showing how she used art and sculptures in learning how to contort her body to make her pictures look so great. She really understood how to position her body in a way that made her look very seductive and just very good. She knew all the angles that looked good on camera, which was very impressive because I find that to be a difficult feat. 

I also really enjoy the room that played a video of Marilyn in numerous movies and scenes, and then the outfits she wore in all of those clips were in the room, so we could see everything that she wore up close. I was impressed because all of the clothes looked amazing on her, they fit her like a glove. But some clothes just didn't look that great on the mannequins. Some even looked a bit frumpy, and yet when you saw Marilyn Monroe wearing them they looked perfect and very sexy, regardless of what article of clothing it was and how little or much she was covered up. I would also say that the material did not look that great on all of her clothes, but they looked great in the videos, which I just thought to be very interesting.