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2025

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

Fashion & Interiors. A Gendered Affair

Start Date 29 March 2025
End Date 03 August 2025
Venue MoMu
Location Antwerp, Belgium
Curator Romy Cockx
Designer Altu Space
Graphic design Jelle Jespers
Gallery shot of mannequin in green sculptural ensemble beside a blue armchair

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

Halcyon Days: Fashion and Culture in Reform-Age Pest

Start Date 13 June 2024
End Date 31 March 2025
Venue Petőfi Literary Museum
Location Budapest, Hungary
Curator Zsolt Mészáros
Designer Gyula Kemény and Gábor Bogdándy 
A floral historical dress on display complete with white and brown sleeves. Also on display are historical paintings of women.

2011

Handmade, from yesterday’s handcrafted to today’s handcrafted

Start Date 08 April 2011
End Date 27 February 2012
Venue Musée du Costume et de la dentelle
Location Brussels, Belgium
Curator Corinne ter Assatouroff, Caroline Esgain, Martine Vrebos
Exhibition display of 20th century gowns

2023

Colour Revolution

Start Date 21 September 2023
End Date 18 February 2024
Venue Ashmolean Museum
Location Oxford, England
Curator Matthew Winterbottom and Prof Charlotte Ribeyrol
A Decadent Young Woman by Ramon Casas (1899) Photograph: Museu do Montserrat, Barcelona. Women is on a green sofa wearing a dark blue dress.

The Cult of Beauty

Start Date 26 October 2023
End Date 28 April 2024
Venue The Wellcome Collection
Location London, UK
Curator Janice Li
A display with a pink background featuring corsets.

Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners Shaped Global Style

Start Date 13 October 2023
End Date 14 April 2024
Venue Museum of London Docklands
Location London, UK
Curator Dr Lucie Whitmore

2024

Statement Sleeves

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

2023

Gathering

Start Date 29 March 2023
End Date 31 July 2024
Venue Textile Museum of Canada
Location Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Curator Roxane Shaughnessy
Senior Manager Leah Sanchez
Curatorial Advisor Devyani Saltzman
Display of shoes and accessories

Fashioned by Sargent

Start Date 08 October 2023
End Date 15 January 2024
Venue Museum of Fine Arts,Boston
Location Boston,USA
Curator Erica E.Hirshler
“Fashioned by Sargent” installation view. Far left, ‘‘Beetle Wing Dress’’ for Lady Macbeth. Sargent’s painting of the actress Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, in the shimmering gown (which boasts actual beetle wing cases affixed to its surface), hangs nearby. The dress was created by Alice Laura Comyns-Carr.Credit: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2015

Paupers, Petticoats and Pinafores

Start Date 14 February 2015
End Date 01 November 2015
Venue The Workhouse
Location Southwell, Nottinghamshire, UK

2014

Fashion Victims: The Pleasures & Perils of Dress in the 19th Century

Start Date 18 June 2014
End Date 01 June 2016
Venue Bata Shoe Museum
Location Toronto, Canada
Curator Elizabeth Semmelhack and Dr. Alison Matthews David

2023

Fashion Folklore

Start Date 12 July 2023
End Date 08 January 2024
Venue Mucem
Location Marseille, France
Curator Marie-Charlotte Calafat and Aurélie Samuel
Designer Agence NC, Nathalie Criniere
Graphics Tania Haguemeister

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

2017

Reflections: Images and Objects from African American Women, 1891-1987

Start Date 31 January 2017
End Date 30 April 2017
Venue The Esse Purse Museum
Location Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Exhibition glass cabinet with three handbags and historical artefacts.

2023

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

2007

Hague Court Fashions

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

2010

Haute Couture: Voici Paris

Start Date 20 February 2010
End Date 06 June 2010
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

2019

Majesty & Mystery: Saving a Napoleonic Court Gown

Start Date 05 February 2019
End Date 13 April 2019
Venue FIDM Museum
Location Los Angeles, USA
Curator Kevin Jones
A white empress-style dress is worn on a white mannequin. Illustrated pattern cuttings are printed onto the wall behind the dress. The caption 'PIECING HISTORY TOGETHER' is printed near the bottom of the wall in large font.

2021

Head to Toe

Start Date 17 November 2021
End Date 08 May 2008
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA
Curator Elizabeth Way and Melissa Marra-Alvarez
Three mannequins displaying two dresses and a skirt and jacket stand alongside three shelves of hats, bags and shoes

2022

150 Years of the Royal School of Needlework: Crown to Catwalk

Start Date 01 April 2022
End Date 04 September 2022
Venue Fashion and Textile Museum
Location London, U.K.
Curator Dennis Nothdruft in collaboration with Dr Susan Kay-Williams

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'

2021

City and Fashion Invited by French Literature: From the Late 19th Century to the 20th Century (Phase II)

Start Date 19 November 2021
End Date 29 January 2022
Venue Kobe Fashion Museum
Location Kobe, Japan
exhibition display of mannequins in period costume

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.

2012

Staging Fashion, 1880–1920: Jane Hading, Lily Elsie, Billie Burke

Start Date 18 January 2012
End Date 08 April 2012
Venue Bard Graduate Center Gallery
Location New York, USA
Curator Michele Majer
Exhibition display of photographs and mannequins wearing period dress.

2001

Ready to Tear: A History of Paper Fashion

Start Date 01 January 1970
End Date 01 January 1970
Venue Musee de Marcil
Location Montreal, Canada
Paper-like mannequins displays dresses from the 1960s.

2013

Paisley and Plaid: Recurring Patterns in Fashion

Start Date 27 July 2013
End Date 03 December 2013
Venue Southworks Antiques
Location Ontario, Canada
Exhibition with four mannequins displaying period dresses with printed, embroidered or woven paisley.

2020

Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion

Start Date 21 November 2020
End Date 14 March 2021
Venue Peabody Essex Museum
Location Salem, Massachusetts, USA
Curator Petra Slinkard
Exhibition displaying eight mannequins wearing garments from the 19th and 20th centuries.

2019

Made in France

Start Date 16 March 2019
End Date 22 December 2019
Venue Fashion History Museum
Location Ontario, Canada
Curator Jonathan Walford
Exhibition with mannequins displaying late 1960s fashions by Cardin, Ungaro, and Courreges.

2014

Love in Fine Fashion

Start Date 21 November 2014
End Date 12 April 2015
Venue McCord Museum
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Exhibition with mannequins displayed in glass cabinets.

2017

Glamour: Fashionable Red Deer

Start Date 02 December 2017
End Date 11 March 2018
Venue Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery
Location Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
Curator Valerie Miller
Exhibition with mannequins displaying garments.

2005

Georg Jensen Jewelry

Start Date 14 July 2005
End Date 16 October 2005
Venue Bard Graduate Center Gallery
Location New York, USA
Curator Dr. David A. Taylor
Exhibition with images hanging in frames on the wall, a vertical glass cabinet hanging on the wall displaying jewellery, and a flat cabinet on the wall displaying jewellery.

2012

Fashioning the New Woman: 1890-1925

Start Date 05 October 2012
End Date 31 August 2013
Venue DAR Museum
Location Washington D.C., USA
Curator Alden O’Brien
Exhibition with exhibition title on the wall and two mannequins displaying garments.

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.

2017

Fashioning Canada since 1867

Start Date 15 March 2017
End Date 17 December 2017
Venue Fashion History Museum
Location Ontario, Canada
Curator Jonathan Walford
Exhibition with a cream colour wall and a white plinth covered in red rose petal leaves holding 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

2015

Sporting Canadians

Start Date 27 June 2015
End Date 20 December 2015
Venue Black Creek Pioneer Village
Location Ontario, Canada

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

1981

Kostuumshow van 19de eeuwse zomerjurken (Costume show of 19th century summer dresses)

Start Date 23 June 1981
End Date 01 May 2025
Venue Centraal Museum
Location Utrecht, The Netherlands
Curator Marian Conrads

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

1974

For Heads and Toes

Start Date 13 November 1974
End Date 31 March 1975
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, USA
Curator

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

2019

Victoria 200

Start Date 13 March 2019
End Date 30 June 2019
Venue Fashion History Museum
Location Ontario, Canada

2016

Tying the Knot: 200 Years of Wedding Attire

Start Date 04 May 2016
End Date 18 December 2016
Venue Fashion History Museum
Location Ontario, Canada
wedding gowns displayed on mannequins

2015

Treasures From the Collection

Start Date 27 June 2015
End Date 20 December 2015
Venue Fashion History Museum
Location Ontario, Canada
exhibition display of mannequins

2016

To Meet The Queen

Start Date 12 March 2016
End Date 29 May 2016
Venue Fashion History Museum
Location Ontario, Canada
exhibition display of mannequins

1980

Peasant Prints: Textiles from Czechoslovakia & Russia

Start Date 30 January 1980
End Date 31 August 1980
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, USA
single mannequin in an ensemble

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

1989

Opulent Era: Fashions of Worth, Doucet and Pingat

Start Date 01 December 1989
End Date 26 February 1990
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, USA
Curator Elizabeth Ann Coleman
two mannequins

2007

Fashion in Film: Period Costumes for the Screen

Start Date 12 May 2007
End Date 30 September 2007
Venue The Paine Art Center and Gardens
Location Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA

1986

An American Eye for Style

Start Date 01 December 1986
End Date 29 June 1987
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, USA
Curator Costumes and Textiles department
single mannequin in an ensemble

2018

Dressing Toronto

Start Date 01 November 2018
End Date 30 November 2018
Venue Fashion History Museum
Location Ontario, Canada
Curator Jonathan Walford

2016

Eye on Fashion: The Kelly Ellman Collection

Start Date 03 December 2016
End Date 26 February 2017
Venue The Ellman Fashion Design Gallery, Phoenix Art Museum
Location Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Curator Phoenix Art Museum

2021

Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser

Start Date 22 May 2021
End Date 31 December 2021
Venue V&A
Location London, UK
Curator Kate Bailey and Harriet Reed
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2015

Style and Substance: Fashion, Society, Change 1880–1930s

Start Date 27 June 2015
End Date 01 May 2025
Venue Harris Museum and Art Gallery
Location Preston, UK
Curator Kathryn Rogerson

2011

Victorian Dresses

Start Date 01 January 1970
End Date 01 May 2025
Venue Gunnersbury Park Museum
Location Richmond, London, UK

2017

Victorian Dresses from the Ryedale Folk Museum collection

Start Date 01 January 1970
End Date 01 January 1970
Venue Ryedale Folk Museum
Location Hutton le Hole, North Yorkshire, UK

2010

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

2010

Fashion for Festivals 1810–2000

Start Date 31 May 2010
End Date 30 September 2010
Venue Totnes Fashion and Textiles Museum
Location Totnes, Devon, UK

2006

Fashion in Film: Period Costumes for the Screen

Start Date 30 September 2006
End Date 07 January 2007
Venue Winterthur Museum
Location Winterthur, Delaware, USA

2010

Fashionably Curious

Start Date 24 April 2010
End Date 13 June 2010
Venue Linley Sambourne House
Location London, UK
Curator Fashion History and Theory pathway of BA (Hons) Fashion at Central Saint Martins

2014

Fin de Siècle

Start Date 14 January 2014
End Date 16 March 2014
Venue Northampton Museum and Art Gallery
Location Northampton, UK

2015

Age of Glamour: Fashion from the Fifties

Start Date 08 May 2015
End Date 31 December 2015
Venue Lotherton Hall
Location Leeds, UK

1982

La Belle Epoque

Start Date 06 December 1982
End Date 04 September 1983
Venue Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location New York, USA
Curator Diana Vreeland and Philippe Julien

2018

Sorolla y la Moda (Sorolla and Fashion)

Start Date 13 February 2018
End Date 27 May 2018
Venue Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
Location Madrid, Spain
Curator Eloy Martínez de la Pera
Designer

2019

Six Decades of Victorian Fashion

Start Date 01 April 2019
End Date 01 January 1970
Venue Beck Isle Museum
Location Pickering, North Yorkshire, UK.
Exhibition display of dressed mannequin in Victorian dress

2015

A Century of Style: Costume and Colour 1800–1899

Start Date 25 September 2015
End Date 14 February 2016
Venue Kelvingrove Art Gallery
Location Glasgow, Scotland
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2010

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

2017

1895-1925 A Lady’s Day: Dresses From The Roberto Devalle Collection

Start Date 19 October 2017
End Date 07 January 2018
Venue Fondazione Accorsi Ometto
Location Turin, Italy
Curator Silvia Mira
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

2012

The Victorian Book: Fashion and Furnishings 1837–1901

Start Date 02 March 2012
End Date 31 January 2013
Venue Lotherton Hall
Location Leeds, 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

2014

Love in Fine Fashion

Start Date 21 November 2014
End Date 12 April 2015
Venue McCord Museum
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Curator Cynthia Cooper
Exhibition display of dress in glass vitrine

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

2016

ReFashion

Start Date 01 May 2016
End Date 04 September 2016
Venue Discovery Museum
Location Newcastle, UK

2021

Walk This Way: Footwear from the Stuart Weitzman Collection of Historic Shoes to Toe

Start Date 07 February 2021
End Date 06 June 2021
Venue Taft Museum of Art
Location Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Curator Ann Glasscock
Organized by: New York Historical Society, Taft Museum of Art

2014

American Jewelry Design Council – Variations on a Theme: 25 Years of Design

Start Date 24 October 2014
End Date 03 May 2015
Venue Kent State University Museum
Location Kent, USA

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

2021

These Shoes Were Made for Walking

Start Date 09 January 2021
End Date 28 February 2021
Venue Ayers House Museum
Location Adelaide, Australia

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

2018

Designers & Jewellery 1850 –1940: Jewellery & Metalwork from The Fitzwilliam Museum

Start Date 31 July 2018
End Date 11 November 2018
Venue The Fitzwilliam Museum
Location Cambridge, UK

2010

Curious Curves: RAMM display at Launceston

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

2007

Fashion from Fleece: 200 Years of Australian Wool in Fashion

Start Date 25 July 2007
End Date 27 August 2007
Venue Powerhouse Museum
Location Sydney, Australia
Curator Jane de Teliga, Sandra McEwan, Glynis Jones, PHM
Designer Susan Freeman, Freeman Ryan Design
Graphic design: Chris Dent, Creative Justice
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

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

2017

Love Is…Australian Wedding Fashion

Start Date 13 May 2017
End Date 20 May 2018
Venue Powerhouse Museum
Location Sydney, Australia
Curator Glynis Jones
Designer Katherine Bond
Exhibition display of mannequins in wedding attire

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

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

2009

Emilia Stoppani, il guardaroba di una sposa comasca (the wardrobe of a Como bride)

Start Date 15 May 2009
Venue Fondazione Antonio Ratti
Location Como, Italy
Curator Margherita Rosina and Francina Chiara

2013

Contemporary Spain: Photography, painting and fashion / The history of Spain over two centuries

Start Date 03 October 2013
End Date 05 January 2014
Venue Fundación MAPFRE (MAPFRE Foundation)
Location Madrid, Spain
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2018

All in Bags: the World of
Western Fashion Handbags from the 19th to the 20th Century

Start Date 30 June 2018
End Date 21 September 2019
Venue China National Silk Museum
Location Hangzhou, China