i am the artistic director of the nicola trussardi foundation. i spend time here in new york where i also work at the new museum. i have been working with beatrice since 2003 when she invited me to become the director of the foundation. and our collaboration now has lasted more than 10 years. i guess it is a sign that we work well together. i think of her mostly as a friend, but she is also a great accomplice and an enabler of artist's visions. and i think that is her strongest quality. italy is certainly a place that is often burdened by history. what we wanted to do and what we thought was also very much in keeping with the tradition of the trussardi family was to intersect history with the present. beatrice: i studied and i had a part of my life in new york. and i had some working experience there. as i came back to milan, i realized that contemporary art world is not as common or known as the antique art. of course, we are in italy. and italy has the most important cultural and artistic heritage. that was a challenge for me. and i decided to

♪ narrator: beatrice trussardi has pioneered a new form of philanthropy -- a mix of art, ideas, and conservationn her native milan. her latest exhibition is titled "the great mother." it is typical of her approach to business and philanthropy, bringing new ideas to an old setting. [speaking italian] >> [whispering] a real nun! [laughter] beatrice: this exhibition occupies almost 30 rooms of the palace, the most important location in milan, this beautiful palazzo reale. we have more than 130 artists. and we have more than 400 pieces. our pieces cover paintings, drawings, the frescoes on the ceilings, they created a dialogue with the pieces of contemporary art. and so, this combination of the new and the old is like tradition and innovation, and which are also the features of the fashion brand. tradition and innovation. ♪ beatrice: we were inspired by the topic of the expo in milan this year. it is about nutrition, and the mother is the first source of nutrition. but also we were interested in talking about the evolution of women for more than one century through the interior struggles and the soc