Gianfranco Ferré: Under Another Light: Jewels and Ornament

With more than 100 photographs, Gianfranco Ferré: Under Another Light looks at the costume jewelry of Italian designer Gianfranco Ferré (1944–2007). Ferré himself said of this somewhat neglected side of his oeuvre: “intended as a decorative element of clothing, ‘my’ jewelry becomes a tool for its interpretation, for a subjective and individual reading of the garment. If clothing is an object—the ‘thing is worn’—then jewelry is the expression of the way, of ‘how it’s worn.’”

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