500 leading figures from the worlds of art, show business, fashion and Milanese society were welcomed to Fondazione Prada’s premises in Largo Isarco, Milan by Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli for a dinner marking the opening of Italian State TV of the ‘70s seen by Francesco Vezzoli. The exhibition, curated by artist Francesco Vezzoli, explores the television produced by the Italian state broadcaster in the 1970s (Prada Group Journal #4). During the evening guests were treated to an advanced viewing of the exhibition and, following a dinner overseen by Chicco Cerea, the chef from the Michelin-starred Da Vittorio restaurant, they enjoyed a performance by the singer Iva Zanicchi, one of the symbols of that period of Italian television. The evening ended in the library, specially furnished, along with the rest of the building’s spaces, by OMA, Rem Koolhaas’ architecture firm.
The attendees included Courtney Love, Bianca Jagger, the actresses Susan Sarandon, Milla Jovovich, Valeria Golino, Ornella Muti and Ilona Staller, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Jacques Herzog, Klaus Biesenbach from the MOMA, Nicholas Cullinan from the National Portrait Gallery, Anna Maria Montaldo from the Museo del Novecento, Dasha Zhukova from the Garage Museum in Moscow, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo from the foundation of the same name, the artist Thomas Demand, the Mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala and the singers Caterina Caselli and Ornella Vanoni, who have also come to symbolise the 1970s.
Celebrities galore
at Fondazione Prada
