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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

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

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

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

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

Curious Curves: RAMM display at Launceston

Start Date
03 May 2010
End Date
01 July 2010
Venue
Royal Albert Memorial Museum
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

Dressing to Impress

Start Date
10 March 2010
End Date
31 October 2010
Venue
Killerton House and Gardens
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

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

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

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

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

2016

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

1999

Steeled for Style: Hoop Skirts of the Civil War Era

Start Date
01 May 1999
End Date
14 May 2000
Venue
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Location
Philadelphia, USA
Curator
Kristina Haugland

1978

The Jeweler’s Art: European and American Jewelry, 1840-1910

Start Date
01 July 1978
End Date
22 October 1978
Venue
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Location
Philadelphia, USA
Curator
Betty Elzea and  Suzanne Wells 

2015

A Glance of Glamour: Western Fashion of the 19th-20th Centuries

Start Date
01 March 2015
End Date
01 May 2015
Venue
China National Silk Museum
Location
Hangzhou, China
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

1980

The Eighties: The Daring Decade

Start Date
08 March 1980
End Date
03 August 1980
Venue
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Location
Philadelphia, USA
Curator
Adolph S. Cavallo 

1977

La Belle Epoque: 1880–1915

Start Date
04 June 1977
End Date
30 September 1977
Venue
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Location
Philadelphia, USA
Curator
Elsie Siratz McGarvey

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

1979

Delights of Fine Fashion

Start Date
29 September 1979
End Date
10 February 1980
Venue
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Location
Philadelphia, USA
Curator
Elsie Siratz McGarvey

2014

Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire

Start Date
27 September 2014
End Date
19 January 2015
Venue
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location
New York, USA
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2015

Denim: Fashion’s Frontier

Start Date
01 December 2015
End Date
07 May 2016
Venue
The Museum at FIT
Location
New York, USA
Curator
Emma McClendon

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

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

The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s

Start Date
09 June 2017
End Date
21 January 2018
Venue
Cooper Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Design Museum
Location
New York, USA
Exhibition display of furnishings and dressed mannequins

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   

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

Fandemonium

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

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

A Century of Millinery Style

Start Date
31 July 2012
End Date
20 October 2012
Venue
Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising
Location
Los Angeles, USA

Victoria Revealed

Start Date
26 March 2012
Venue
Kensington Palace
Location
London, England
Curator
Deirdre Murphy and Claudia Williams
Exhibition display of three mannequins in black garments

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

2014

Romantic Fashions: Mr Darcy Meets Eline Vere

Start Date
11 October 2014
End Date
22 March 2015
Venue
Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Location
Netherlands
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2011

On the Home Front: Civil War Fashions and Domestic Life

Start Date
30 September 2011
End Date
26 August 2012
Venue
Kent State University Museum
Location
Kent, USA
Curator
Sara Hume

Unveiled: 200 Years of Wedding Fashion (touring)

Start Date
17 December 2011
End Date
22 April 2012
Venue
Te Papa
Location
Wellington, New Zealand

2015

Hooped: Dress of the 1860s

Start Date
24 August 2015
End Date
06 April 2016
Venue
FIDM
Location
Los Angeles, USA
Curator
Kevin Jones

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

2009

Something to Wear: Fashion in Print 1850-1925

Start Date
11 April 2009
End Date
15 August 2009
Venue
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Location
Philadelphia, USA
Curator
Linda Martin-Schaff

Shopping in Paris: French Fashion 1850–1925

Start Date
11 April 2009
End Date
01 November 2009
Venue
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Location
Philadelphia, USA
Curator
Dilys Blum

2015

Heritage, Fabric and fashion histories

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

2004

Faster, Cheaper, Newer, More: the revolutions of 1848

Start Date
04 June 2004
End Date
09 July 2005
Venue
Cooper Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Design Museum
Location
New York, USA

1972

Women’s and Children’s Costume, Accessories and Toys 1830–1900

Start Date
01 January 1970
Venue
Powerhouse Museum
Location
Sydney/New South Wales Museum Train Tour, Australia

New York Brides 1772–1972

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

1974

Ours the Needles:
Victorian Dressmaking

Start Date
01 April 1974
End Date
25 July 1974
Venue
Platt Hall
Location
Manchester, England

2015

Paupers, Petticoats and Pinafores

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

2023

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

2024

Costume Balls: Dressing Up History, 1870–1927

Start Date
14 November 2024
End Date
17 August 2025
Venue
McCord Stewart Museum
Location
Montreal, Canada
Curator
Cynthia Cooper
(Left) A yellow dress with silver embellishments and ruffled sleeves. (Centre Left) White with pink floral pattern, and ruffled half sleeves. (Centre Right) Light powder blue dress with embellishments and ruffles throughout. (Right) Pink gown with with white quarter sleeves.

2025

Costume Drama: an exhibition of historical costumes from film and TV

Start Date
01 February 2025
End Date
20 December 2025
Venue
Bankfield Museum
Location
Halifax, UK
Curator
Gemma Esvelt
Four mannequins wearing typical regency fashion.

2015

Age of Glamour: Fashion from the Fifties

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

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

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

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

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

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

2011

Victorian Dresses

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

2015

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

2015

Sporting Canadians

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

1974

For Heads and Toes

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

1981

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

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