When the Victoria and Albert Museum in London started working on the first comprehensive, large-scale exhibition covering the last 70 years of Italian fashion just four years ago, the Frist Center for Visual Arts in Nashville jumped at the chance to host the show stateside.

The city had already proved its thirst for fashion when the center was the only U.S. location to host the V&A's "The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-57" exhibit in 2010.

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Source: http://fashionista.com/