Three years after the death of avant-garde designer and artist Cinzia Ruggeri, the first retrospective exhibition of her oeuvre, “Cinzia says . . . ,” offered a sprawling landscape. On view were ready-to-wear and bespoke garments and art objects—as well as some pieces between categories, such as Stivali Italia (Italy Boots), 1986, a pair of wearable green-leather high-heeled boots shaped like the Italian Peninsula, accompanied by matching Sicily and Sardinia clutch bags and positioned as they would appear on a map—as if setting out the contents of some cosmopolitan eccentric’s trousseau.

The show