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2025

Rococo Reboot!

Start Date 04 April 2025
End Date 22 February 2026
Venue Modemuseum
Location Hasselt, Belgium
Four mannequins on display, (Left ) Teal blue gown with brown buttons on centre front of dress. (Left centre) A cream gown with long sleeves and ruffles. (Centre right) long white and puff sleeves. (Right) menswear on display, black jacket with gold trim complete with white shirt and trousers.

Louvre Couture, Art and Fashion: Statement Piece

Start Date 24 January 2025
End Date 21 July 2025
Venue Musée du Louvre
Location Paris
Curator Olivier Gabet
Mannequin wearing back crinoline dress beside long table and chairs in a banquet room

Suit Yourself | 100 years of menswear, 1750-1850 

Start Date 22 March 2025
End Date 15 March 2026
Venue Rijksmuseum
Location Amsterdam, Netherlands
Curator Vanessa Jones
Designer Wilmotte & Associés

Dress Codes: Decoding the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection

Start Date 13 March 2025
End Date 30 November 2025
Venue Kensington Palace
Location London, UK
Curator Matthew Storey
A collection of clothing from Lady Diana's collection. In hues of green, red and white outfits made up in dresses, blazers and skirts.

2024

La Saga des grands magasins. De 1850 à nos jours’ (The History of Department Stores, from 1850 to nowadays)

Start Date 06 November 2024
End Date 06 April 2025
Venue Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine
Location Paris, France
Curator Isabelle Marquette
Conservation Assistant Elvira Férault
Associate Curator Christelle Lecoeur
Curatorial Assistant Anjali Pasquion Somaradjalou
(Left) A white gown laced with floor length beige skirt, female mannequin is holding a brown straw hat. (Right) Half length black cloak.

Statement Sleeves

Start Date 24 January 2024
End Date 25 August 2024
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA

2023

Style & Society: Dressing the Georgians

Start Date 21 April 2023
End Date 08 October 2023
Venue The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace
Location London, U.K.
Curator Anna Reynolds

2020

The Great Divide: Footwear in the Age of Enlightenment

Start Date 12 August 2020
End Date 27 March 2023
Venue Bata Shoe Museum
Location Toronto, Canada
Curator Elizabeth Semmelhack

2010

La Senyora de les Muntanyes (The Lady of the Mountains)

Start Date 13 May 2010
End Date 18 May 2010
Venue Museu de Lleida
Location Lleida, Spain

2023

Crown to Couture

Start Date 05 April 2023
End Date 29 October 2023
Venue Kensington Palace, Historic Royal Palaces
Location London, U.K.
Curator Polly Putnam and Claudia Acott-Williams
Designer Joseph Bennett
Gallery view showing mannequins wearing historical dress

India in Fashion

Start Date 02 April 2023
End Date 04 June 2023
Venue Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre
Location Mumbai, India
Curator Hamish Bowles
Designer Patrick Kinmonth and Rooshad Shroff

2005

En Vogue! 18th-century fashions from France and the Netherlands

Start Date 01 September 2025
End Date 04 December 2005
Venue Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Location Netherlands

2007

Hague Court Fashions

Start Date 15 September 2007
End Date 02 December 2007
Venue Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Location Netherlands
Designer Maarten Spruyt

2018

Redressing Pleasure

Start Date 01 March 2018
End Date 01 December 2022
Venue Museum of London
Location London, England
Curator Timothy Long, Danielle Thom

1987

Russian Style 1700-1920: Court and Country Dress from the Heritage

Start Date 29 January 1987
End Date 26 April 1987
Venue Barbican Art Gallery
Location London, UK
Exhibition display of hats in a section called 'Exuberance'

1989

Revolution in Fashion 1715–1815

Start Date 04 April 1989
End Date 28 May 1989
Venue KCI at the National Museum of Modern Art
Location Tokyo, Japan

2017

Printed Fashions: Textiles for Clothing and Home

Start Date 25 March 2017
End Date 28 February 2019
Venue Colonial Williamsburg
Location Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
Curator Linda Baumgarten
Exhibition with papered wall of prints from a swatch book in the museum collection.

2015

Fashioning the Body at Brad Graduate Centre Gallery

Start Date 03 April 2015
End Date 26 July 2015
Venue Bard Graduate Center Gallery
Location New York, USA
Curator Dr. Denis Bruna
Exhibition with black walls and with glass display cases against the wall with mannequins displaying garments.

2009

Fashionably Wrapped: The Influence of Kashmir Shawls

Start Date 18 November 2009
End Date 04 July 2010
Venue Textile Museum of Canada
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Curator Natalia Nekrassova
Exhibition with blue wall with textiles hanging from the wall, a red plinths holding two mannequins displaying garments and a wooden display cabinet.

2011

Fashion Accessories from Head to Toe

Start Date 29 January 2011
End Date 01 January 2013
Venue Colonial Williamsburg
Location Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
Curator Linda Baumgarten

2012

A Shoe Story

Start Date 23 May 2012
End Date 16 June 2012
Venue Manama Mall
Location Bahrain
Curator Fashion History Museum

2017

Jane Austen’s World: 1792 – 1817

Start Date 19 July 2017
End Date 17 December 2017
Venue Fashion History Museum
Location Ontario, Canada
Curator Jonathan Walford

2016

From the Imperial Theater: Chinese Opera Costumes of the 18th and 19th Centuries

Start Date 25 June 2016
End Date 09 October 2017
Venue Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location New York, USA
Curator Pengliang Lu and Denise Patry Leidy
garments displayed in glass vitrines

2007

New Threads: Quilts and Costumes

Start Date 09 November 2007
End Date 01 March 2008
Venue DAR Museum
Location Washington D.C., USA
Curator Alden O’Brien

1987

Pearls Among the Gold: Russian Women’s Festive Dress

Start Date 25 February 1987
End Date 29 June 1987
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, USA
Curator Elizabeth Ann Coleman
display of mannequins and textiles

2022

Dress Code – Fashion Stories from The Box

Start Date 02 April 2022
End Date 04 September 2022
Venue The Box
Location Plymouth, UK

2010

Two Hundred Years of the Flower Motif in Fashion

Start Date 01 January 1970
End Date 01 January 1970
Venue Totnes Fashion and Textiles Museum
Location Totnes, Devon, UK

Marriage in the Movies

Start Date 01 January 1970
End Date 31 October 2010
Venue National Museum of Costume, Shambellie House
Location Dumfries, Scotland, UK.

2014

Let’s Party: Gorgeous Garments from the Assembly Rooms to the Disco

Start Date 20 May 2014
End Date 03 October 2014
Venue Totnes Fashion and Textiles Museum
Location Devon, UK

2009

Embellished: The Art of Fabulous Fabrics

Start Date 14 November 2009
End Date 02 May 2025
Venue Harris Museum and Art Gallery
Location Preston, UK
Curator Mary Schoeser

2010

Elegance: Two Hundred Years of Dressing to Impress

Start Date 10 March 2010
End Date 31 October 2010
Venue Killerton House
Location Devon, UK

2018

Fans of the Eighteenth Century

Start Date 31 March 2018
End Date 07 July 2019
Venue de Young Museum
Location San Francisco, California, USA.

2009

La moda e la scienza nella Firenze di Pietro Leopoldo (Fashion and science in Pietro Leopoldo’s Florence)

Start Date 05 December 2009
End Date 05 March 2010
Venue Museo Galileo - Institute and Museum of the History of Science
Location Florence, Italy
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins in period costume beside scientific apparatus with arched window in background

2010

L’oro e La Seta (Gold and Silk)

Start Date 16 September 2010
End Date 26 June 2011
Venue Fondazione Accorsi Ometto
Location Turin, Italy
Curator Carlo Sisi
mannequin in dark long dress and masked eyewear

Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail 1700–1915

Start Date 02 October 2010
End Date 27 March 2011
Venue Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Location Los Angeles, USA
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2011

Dress for Excess: Fashion in Regency England

Start Date 05 February 2011
End Date 05 February 2012
Venue The Royal Pavilion
Location Brighton, UK

Costume Drama: Fashion From 1780–1850

Start Date 08 July 2011
End Date 07 May 2012
Venue Sudley House
Location Liverpool, UK

2019

The Georgian Edit: Cutting-Edge Fashion of the Eighteenth Century

Start Date 23 August 2019
End Date 31 December 2019
Venue Fairfax House
Location York, UK

2018

Dressed to Impress

Start Date 05 September 2018
End Date 01 February 2021
Venue Walker Art Gallery
Location Liverpool, UK
Curator Pauline Rushton

2015

Inside Out: Revealing Clothing’s Hidden Secrets

Start Date 12 March 2015
End Date 31 July 2016
Venue Kent State University Museum
Location Kent, USA
Curator Sara Hume
Designer Jim Williams

2018

In Praise of Silk: Fashion with Tradition in China

Start Date 13 March 2018
End Date 25 March 2018
Venue China Cultural Center in Tel Aviv
Location Tel Aviv, Israel
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2014

Wedding Dresses 1775–2014

Start Date 03 May 2014
End Date 15 May 2015
Venue V&A
Location London, UK
Curator Keira Miller
Exhibition display of dressed mannequin in wedding attire

2008

Magnificence of the Tsars

Start Date 10 December 2008
End Date 29 March 2009
Venue V&A
Location London, England
Curator Svetlana Amelekhina

2019

Paris, Capital of Fashion

Start Date 06 September 2019
End Date 04 January 2020
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA
Curator Valerie Steele
Designer Kimberly Ackert, Ackert Architecture
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2010

Dressing to Impress

Start Date 10 March 2010
End Date 31 October 2010
Venue Killerton House and Gardens
Location Exeter, UK

Curious Curves: RAMM display at Launceston

Start Date 03 May 2010
End Date 01 July 2010
Venue Royal Albert Memorial Museum
Location Exeter, UK

1979

Imperial Style: Fashions of the Hapsburg Era

Start Date 01 December 1979
End Date 01 August 1980
Venue Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location New York, USA
Curator Diana Vreeland

2016

A Century of Shoes: The Rise and Fall of the Georgian Heel

Start Date 10 March 2016
End Date 26 June 2016
Venue Fairfax House
Location York, UK

An Agreeable Tyrant: Fashion After the Revolution

Start Date 07 October 2016
End Date 29 April 2017
Venue DAR Museum
Location Washington D.C., USA

From Rural to Urban: 400 Years of Western Fashion

Start Date 01 September 2016
End Date 01 December 2021
Venue China National Silk Museum
Location Hangzhou, China
Curator Zhao Feng
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

1988

Fans from the Collection

Start Date 23 August 1988
End Date 04 September 1998
Venue Philadelphia Museum of Art
Location Philadelphia, USA
Curator Dilys Blum

1990

Fabric and Fashion: A Decade of Acquisitions

Start Date 11 February 1990
End Date 05 March 1990
Venue Philadelphia Museum of Art
Location Philadelphia, USA
Curator Dilys Blum

2005

Catwalk Fashion: The Kamer/Ruf Collection. Fashion from the 18th to the 20th century

Start Date 05 November 2005
End Date 05 February 2006
Venue Decorative Arts Museum (Kunstgewerbemuseum)
Location Berlin, Germany

1997

Best Dressed: 250 Years of Style

Start Date 21 October 1997
End Date 04 January 1998
Venue Philadelphia Museum of Art
Location Philadelphia, USA

2015

Elaborate Embroidery: Fabrics for Menswear before 1815

Start Date 02 February 2015
End Date 19 July 2015
Venue The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location New York, USA
Exhibition display of cabinet containing fabric samples

2007

Costume and Textiles: Recent Acquisitions from A to Z

Start Date 03 November 2007
End Date 27 April 2008
Venue Philadelphia Museum of Art
Location Philadelphia, USA
Curator Kristina Haugland

2014

Exquisite Threads:
English Embroidery 1600s-1900s

Start Date 02 April 2014
End Date 12 July 2015
Venue National Gallery of Victoria
Location Melbourne, Australia
Curator Roger Leong

2017

Whimsy and Reason. Elegance in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Start Date 14 May 2017
End Date 29 April 2018
Venue Museo del Tessuto
Location Prato, Italy

1996

A Passion for Paisley: Indian and European Shawls

Start Date 03 September 1996
End Date 19 January 1997
Venue Philadelphia Museum of Art
Location Philadelphia, USA
Curator Dilys E. Blum and Arlene Cooper   

2018

Marie Antoinette. The Oscar-Winning Costumes of a Queen

Start Date 11 February 2018
End Date 10 June 2018
Venue Museo del Tessuto
Location Prato, Italy
Curator Stefania Ricci
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2015

Silk Gardens

Start Date 05 November 2015
End Date 10 November 2015
Venue Fondazione Antonio Ratti
Location Como, Italy
Curator Margherita Rosina and Francina Chiara
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins and textiles on wall

2016

Fairy Tale Fashion

Start Date 15 January 2016
End Date 16 April 2016
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA
Curator Colleen Hill
Designer Kimberly Ackert, Ackert Architecture
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2012

Fashioning Fashion: Deux Siècles de Mode Européenne 1700–1915 (Fashioning Fashion: Two Centuries of European Fashion 1700–1915)

Start Date 13 December 2012
End Date 14 April 2013
Venue Les Arts Décoratifs
Location Paris, France
Curator Veronique Belloir and Denis Bruna
Designer Frédéric Beauclair

Fandemonium

Start Date 16 November 2012
End Date 06 October 2013
Venue Kent State University Museum
Location Kent, USA

Baskets, Whales and Ruffles, Fashion in the 18th Century

Start Date 03 March 2012
End Date 03 March 2013
Venue Musée du Costume et de la Dentelle
Location Brussels, Belgium

2014

Bound to Impress: Corsets from The Helen Larson Historic Fashion Collection

Start Date 08 February 2014
End Date 14 June 2014
Venue Museum at Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising
Location Los Angeles, USA

2010

Modemakt: 330 Ar av Kläder (Fashion Power: 300 Years of Clothing)

Start Date 26 February 2010
End Date 12 August 2018
Venue Nordiska Museet
Location Stockholm, Sweden

2011

Fashion Timeline

Start Date 29 June 2011
End Date 27 June 2012
Venue Kent State University Museum
Location Kent, USA
Curator Sara Hume

2015

Opulent Art: 18th-Century Dress from The Helen Larson Historic Fashion Collection

Start Date 10 February 2015
End Date 02 July 2015
Venue FIDM
Location Los Angeles, USA
Curator Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell and Kevin Jones

2004

Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century

Start Date 29 April 2004
End Date 06 September 2004
Venue Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location New York, USA
Curator Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton
Designer Patrick Kinmonth
Exhibition display of two seated and dressed mannequins in elaborate setting

2008

Two Centuries of British Fashion from the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Collection

Start Date 05 September 2008
End Date 16 November 2008
Venue Moscow Kremlin Museums
Location Moscow, Russia

2015

Heritage, Fabric and fashion histories

Start Date 22 November 2015
End Date 28 November 2016
Venue Museo del Tessuto
Location Prato, Italy

2011

Le 18e au Goût du Jour (The Eighteenth Century Back in Fashion)

Start Date 08 July 2011
End Date 09 October 2011
Venue Musée Galliera at the Grand Trianon
Location Domaine National du Château de Versailles, France

1972

Eighteenth Century Costume

Start Date 01 July 1972
End Date 01 October 1972
Venue Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)
Location Toronto, Canada

New York Brides 1772–1972

Start Date 01 January 1970
Venue Museum of the City of New York
Location New York, USA