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Make like Tilda Swinton at this exquisite Milan villa

Make like Tilda Swinton at this exquisite Milan villa

From on-screen crush to real-life museum – welcome to Villa Necchi Campiglio, a window into 1930s high society.

Villa Necchi Campiglio in Milan is one of the best-preserved home museums in Italy. Alamy

In I Am Love, Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino’s 2009 drama about the breakdown of a wealthy Milanese family, Tilda Swinton wafts through beautiful rooms impeccably dressed in a minimalist wardrobe of mauve, tomato red and cobalt blue by Raf Simons for Jil Sander.

When I first saw the film, I was captured by her clothes, but I also marvelled at the house she inhabited, an austere monument to 1930s Italian rationalism that had as much character as any of the actors gathered within its walls.

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Lee TullochTravel columnistLee Tulloch is the founding editor of Harper’s Bazaar Australia. Lee lived in New York and Paris for many years before returning to Sydney, but travels frequently to satisfy an inherent restlessness and unquenchable curiosity about the world.

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