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2025

Rococo Reboot!

Start Date
04 April 2025
End Date
22 February 2026
Venue
Modemuseum
Location
Hasselt, Belgium
Curator
Curator Eve Demoen and fragrance artist Peter De Cupere
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
23 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