After his parents died, only child Jorge Yarur Bascuñán turned their Santiago home into “El Museo de la Moda” - a museum showcasing fashion spanning the decades. Yeah? Our parents might maybe get a funeral:

The museum is housed in what used to be Yarur’s parents’ home, a modernist bungalow built in 1962 in a wealthy suburb of Santiago. It is the house Yarur lived in until they died. To accommodate everything necessary to store, restore and exhibit the delicate 19th-century ball-gowns, 1920s Chanel dresses and classics from Christian Dior’s New Look period, Yarur had the house remodelled.

Our museum would have silky shirts with shoulder pads and a bunch of polos bought in an outlet mall. Along with the remains of that one sibling who lived in the attic. Rigoberto.

It has state-of-the-art storage, a restoration and preservation laboratory, a workshop, a documentation and research centre, and a library with more than 3,000 books. All in all, it was a remarkable undertaking for someone who wasn’t sure what he wanted to do in life. But as the softly spoken Yarur explains, it was all possible thanks to his parents and because of his wish to preserve, and present to the world, something of their legacy.

Aw, how sweet. We’ll pay a visit to El Museo de la Moda if we’re ever in Chile, although we might be too delirious from avoiding what we’ve been told is something of a ubiquitous menu item down there: hot dogs and mayonnaise. We’re good Catholic girls, Chile. No.

Museo de la Moda: Mummy’s dearest [Telegraph]