In the family home of the iconic artist Frida In the city of Mexico, a colorful Mexican skirt is gently wrapped on special paper and placed in a box of works of art.

The handmade garment is then placed in a box and transported more than 13,000 kilometers away, to the Bendigo Art Gallery in Central Victoria, in Australia.

The skirt is one of many exhibits, clothes, jewelry and souvenirs of the famous painter who have been held locked in her home in Mexico for 50 years and are now presented at the exhibition “Frida Kahlo: In Her Own Image“

The report sheds light on the loud dialogue between clothes and style Callo, her performance in photography and drawing and painting, including her emblematic self -portraits.

Among the exhibits are included handmade clothingthe sleeves of which are still colored with paints and burns of cigaretteas well as medical corsets that the call was wearing after surgery to spine, whom he painted and decorated while lying on the bed.

The clothes were hidden in a bathroom in her home for 50 years at the behest of her husband, painter Diego Rivera.

Riviera stipulated that they should remain locked up to 15 years after his death.

The painter died the 1957but the Bathroom remained closed until 2004, when in their home that turned into Museum of Frida Callo began the register of its contents.

Through photographs and documents, the exhibition examines the personal, political, philosophical and artistic influences that shaped the characteristic worldview of Callo and enriched its innovative creative production.