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2024

The Indian Army at the Palace

Start Date 15 September 2023
End Date 29 September 2024
Venue Kensington Palace
Location London,England
Curator Rav Singh and Dr Tej Pal Singh Ralmill
Exhibition Lead Zakira Begum
Red soldier's uniform displayed on a mannequin

Dress Up

Start Date 13 April 2024
End Date 02 September 2024
Venue Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Location Boston,USA
Curator Theo Tyson, Emily Stoehrer, Rita J. Kaplan, Penny Vinik,and Susan B.
Martin Parr, Dakar (detail), 2001. Chromogenic print, (Lambda print). Gift of Jesse H. Wilkinson—Jesse H. Wilkinson Fund. © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos.

2023

Out Shopping: The Dresses of Marion and Maude Sambourne 1880-1910

Start Date 23 March 2024
End Date 20 October 2024
Venue Leighton House, Sambourne House
Location London,England
Curator Daniel Robbins
Display of mannequins dressed in 20th century women's fashion.

2022

Guo Pei: Art of Couture

Start Date 12 November 2022
End Date 14 May 2023
Venue Bowers Museum
Location Santa Ana, California, USA

2024

Statement Sleeves

Start Date 24 January 2024
End Date 25 August 2024
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, U.S.A

2023

Women Dressing Women

Start Date 07 December 2023
End Date 03 March 2024
Venue Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location New York, U.S.A
Curator Karen Van Godtsenhoven and Mellissa Huber

Africa Fashion (touring)

Start Date 23 June 2023
End Date 22 October 2023
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, U.S.A
Curator Christine Chechinska and Elisabeth Murray
Organisers Ernestine White-Mifetu, Annissa Malvoisin, Catherine Futter, Matthew Yokobosky and Rhea Stark

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

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, U.K.
Curator Dr Lucie Whitmore

The Missing Thread: Untold Stories of Black British Fashion

Start Date 21 September 2023
End Date 07 January 2024
Venue Somerset House
Location London, U.K.
Curator Black Oriented Legacy Development Agency (BOLD)
A collection of clothes designed by Joe Casely-Hayford stand on a white curved plinth.

Making a Splash! A Century of Women’s Beachwear

Start Date 10 June 2023
End Date 14 January 2024
Venue Aberdeen Art Gallery
Location Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
Curator Morna Annandale

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.

2018

You May Kiss the Bride

Start Date 29 May 2018
End Date 19 August 2018
Venue The Esse Purse Museum
Location Arkansas, USA

2016

Changing Tides: 100 Years of Iconic Swimwear

Start Date 10 May 2016
End Date 07 August 2016
Venue The Esse Purse Museum
Location Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
side view of exhibition of 3 mannequins in historic swimwear c. 1920s

A Walk in Her Shoes

Start Date 11 October 2016
End Date 15 January 2017
Venue The Esse Purse Museum
Location Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Exhibition vitrine display of shoes

2009

Free Within Limits: Fashion, Photography, Underground in the GDR 1979-89

Start Date 04 July 2009
End Date 13 September 2009
Venue Decorative Arts Museum (Kunstgewerbemuseum)
Location Berlin, Germany

2004

Vivienne Westwood: 34 Years in Fashion

Start Date 12 November 2004
End Date 30 January 2005
Venue National Gallery of Australia
Location Canberra, Australia

2019

Vera Paints a Scarf: The Art and Design of Vera Neumann

Start Date 08 August 2019
End Date 26 January 2020
Venue Museum of Arts and Design
Location New York, U.S.A
Curator Elissa Auther
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2023

Fashion on the Move

Start Date 16 June 2023
End Date 07 September 2025
Venue Palais Galliera
Location Paris, France
Curator Miren Arzalluz and Marie-Laure Gutton
Designer Ciel Architects

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

2012

Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950

Start Date 19 May 2012
End Date 06 January 2013
Venue V&A
Location London, England
Curator Oriole Cullen and Sonnet Stanfill
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2003

Mart Visser: Haute Couture

Start Date 11 October 2003
End Date 01 February 2004
Venue Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Location Netherlands

2004

From Chanel to Punk: Fashion in the 20th Century

Start Date 08 May 2004
End Date 28 November 2004
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

2021

Cartier and the Arts of Islam. At the Origins of Modernity

Start Date 21 October 2011
End Date 20 February 2022
Venue Musée des Arts Décoratifs
Location Paris, France
Curator Évelyne Possémé, Judith Henon-Raynaud, Sarah Schleuning, Dr. Heather Ecker
Designer DS + R

Head to Toe

Start Date 17 November 2021
End Date 8 May 8 2022
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

Dior + Balenciaga: The Kings of Couture and Their Legacies

Start Date 01 June 2022
End Date 06 November 2022
Venue Museum at FIT
Location New York City, U.S.A
Curator Patricia Mears
Five A-line outfits in cream, black, grey and navy displayed against a muted black bakdrop.

2016

Art Textiles: Marian Clayden

Start Date 11 March
End Date 17 April
Venue Fashion and Textile Museum
Location London, UK
Curator Mary Schoeser

2021

Mary Quant: Fashion Icon (Touring)

Start Date 10 December 2021
End Date 13 March 2022
Venue Auckland Art Gallery
Location Auckland, New Zealand
Curator Dr Sophie Matthiesson, Senior Curator, International Art
exhibition display of mannequins adjacent to a screen showing film of Mary Quant

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

2017

Cartier in Motion

Start Date 25 May 2017
End Date 28 July 2017
Venue Design Museum
Location London, U.K.
Curator Lord Norman Foster
Gallery view of Cartier watches displayed in black-framed cases on a red carpeted floor

2022

The Art of Movement, Van Cleef & Arpels

Start Date 23 September 2022
End Date 20 October 2022
Venue Design Museum
Location London, U.K.
Gallery view of the exhibition, with pink display cases showcasing Van Cleef & Arpels jewellery

Fred Perry: A British Icon

Start Date 10 June 2022
End Date 19 June 2022
Venue Design Museum
Location London, U.K.
Curator Maria McLintock
A display of Fred Perry shirts. Two shirts on the left of the photo, one in two-tone blue striped and the other a chequered green pattern - are against a backdrop collage of Perry playing tennis. Ther other shirts are displayed in vertical light boxes.

Africa Fashion

Start Date 02 July 2022
End Date 16 April 2023
Venue V&A Museum
Location London, UK
Curator Christine Chechinska and Elisabeth Murray
Opening section to Africa Fashion exhibition

2013

Cristóbal Balenciaga: A Timeless Legacy. Collection III

Start Date 26 April 2013
Venue Cristóbal Balenciaga Museoa
Location Getaria, Spain

2021

Balenciaga. The Elegance of the Hat

Start Date 17 June 2021
End Date 03 October 2021
Venue Museu del Disseny de Barcelona and Cristóbal Balenciaga Museoa
Location Barcelona and Getaria, Spain
Curator Igor Uría and Sílvia Ventosa
Exhibition display of hats in a section called 'Exuberance'

2013

Modern Love: Fashion Visionaries from the FIDM Museum LA (touring)

Start Date 26 October 2013
End Date 02 February 2014
Venue Bendigo Art Gallery
Location Bendigo, Australia

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

1986

14:24 British Youth Culture

Start Date 01 August1986
End Date 01 August1986
Venue The Boilerhouse, V&A Museum
Location London, England

2022

Shocking! The surreal worlds of Elsa Schiaparelli (Shocking! Les Mondes Surréalistes d’Elsa Schiaparelli)

Start Date 06 July 2022
End Date 22 January 2023
Venue Musée des Arts Décoratifs
Location Paris, France
Curator Olivier Gabet and Marie-Sophie Carron de la Carrière
Designer Nathalie Crinière
Exhibition with mannequins on a plinths - central one of which is displaying grey suit with gold trim

2014

Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion (Touring)

Start Date 21 March 2014
End Date 11 May 2014
Venue National Museum of Modern Art
Location Kyoto, Japan

2013

Future Beauty: Avant-Garde Japanese Fashion (Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion, Touring)

Start Date 16 November 2013
End Date 26 January 2014
Venue Peabody Essex Museum
Location Salem, Massachusetts
Curator Akiko Fukai

2014

Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion (Touring)

Start Date 01 November 2014
End Date 15 February 2014
Venue The Gallery of Modern Art
Location Brisbane, Australia
Curator Akiko Fukai
garments on mannequins on display

2013

Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion (Touring)

Start Date 27 June 2013
End Date 08 September 2013
Venue Seattle Art Museum
Location Seattle, Washington
Curator Akiko Fukai

2011

A Vision of Fashion

Start Date 25 June 2011
End Date 04 September 2011
Venue Kyoto Costume Institute at the Contemporary Art Museum
Location Kumamoto, Japan
Curator Takeshi Sakurai, Akiko Fukai
mannequins next to TVs

1995

Knit: Naomi London and Janet Morton

Start Date 24 June 1995
End Date 03 September 1995
Venue Textile Museum of Canada
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Curator Sarah Quinton
Exhibition with knitwear garments hanging on the wall.

2012

Little Black Dress

Start Date 28 September 2012
End Date 27 January 2013
Venue SCAD Museum of Art
Location Savannah, Georgia USA
Curator André Leon Talley
Exhibition with mannequins displaying black dresses.

1993

Ruth Scheuing: Anatomy of the Suit/Geometry of the Body

Start Date 05 August 1993
End Date 05 September 1993
Venue Textile Museum of Canada
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Exhibition with three deconstructed suit jackets displayed on the wall.

2011

Nuclear Fashion: Selling Style to Suburbia 1946 – 1964

Start Date May 2011
End Date September 2011
Venue City of Waterloo Museum
Location Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Exhibition with framed images on the wall.

2008

Reveal or Conceal?

Start Date 22 February 2008
End Date 18 January 2009
Venue McCord Museum
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Exhibition display with underwear displayed on bust and flat.

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.

2017

Scraps: Fashion, Textiles and Creative Reuse

Start Date 02 September 2017
End Date 07 January 2018
Venue The Textile Museum at The George Washington Museum
Location Washington D.C., USA
Curator Camille Ann Brewer
Exhibition display with fabric swatches and garments.

2001

Ready to Tear: A History of Paper Fashion

Start Date 2001
End Date 2008
Venue Musee de Marcil
Location Montreal, Canada
Paper-like mannequins displays dresses from the 1960s.

2016

Philadelphia in Style: A Century of Fashion from the Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection, Drexel University

Start Date 13 March 2016
End Date 26 July 2016
Venue Michener Art Museum
Location Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA
Curator Kirsten M. Jensen, Louise Feder and Clare Sauro
Exhibition with four mannequins displaying 20th century dress.

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.

2015

Oscar de la Renta: His Legendary World of Style

Start Date 05 February 2015
End Date 03 May 2015
Venue SCAD Museum of Art
Location Savannah, Georgia USA
Curator André Leon Talley
Exhibition display with eight mannequins display Oscar de la Renta garments.

2013

Mode: Fashion of the 1960s

Start Date 05 December 2013
End Date 22 December 2013
Venue Southwork Antiques
Location Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
Exhibition with three garments on display.

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.

2019

Leather, Lace and Luster

Start Date 23 July 2019
End Date 02 February 2020
Venue SCAD Museum of Art
Location Savannah, Georgia USA
Exhibition with five mannequins displaying black garments; one on a plinth on the floor; two on mirrored plinths next to wall; and two mounted to the wall.

2017

Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair

Start Date 18 March 2017
End Date 24 July 2018
Venue The Textile Museum at The George Washington Museum
Location Washington D.C., USA
Curator Joy L. Bivins and Camille Ann Brewer
Exhibition with two mannequins; one facing backwards with one arm on the hip and one facing forwards with its arms up displaying garments.

2011

Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones

Start Date 15 September 2011
End Date 15 April 2011
Venue Bard Graduate Center Gallery
Location New York, USA
Curator Stephen Jones
Exhibition with glass cabinets against wall displaying hats.

2019

Guldnakke

Start Date 19 February 2019
End Date 28 July 2019
Venue SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film
Location Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Curator Alexandra Sachs
Exhibition with three images on two walls in a dimly lit room.

2004

Growing Up in Montréal

Start Date 29 October 2004
End Date 6 January 2008
Venue McCord Museum
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Exhibition display of mannequins displaying children's clothes.

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.

2019

French Fashion, Women, and the First World War

Start Date 05 September 2019
End Date 05 January 2020
Venue Bard Graduate Center Gallery
Location New York, USA
Curator Maude Bass-Krueger and Sophie Kurkdjian
Exhibition with plinth surrounded by glass with three mannequins displaying garments and two open books.

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.

2019

Fashion Redefined: Miyake, Kawakubo, Yamamoto

Start Date 28 April 2019
End Date 05 January 2020
Venue Newfields Museum
Location Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Curator Niloo Paydar
Exhibition with white walls and graphic decorations with plinths holding mannequins displaying garments.

2012

A Shoe Story

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

1997

Spin Cycle: Recycling and Reclaiming Textile Traditions

Start Date 14 June 1997
End Date 25 January 1998
Venue Textile Museum of Canada
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Curator Margot Fagan, Machenry Rachel and Lynne Milgram

2015

Sporting Canadians

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

Gianfranco Ferré Designs

Start Date 04 November 2015
End Date 06 March 2016
Venue The Ellman Galleries, Phoenix Art Museum
Location Phoenix, USA
Curator Dennita Sewell

2022

ode to MEATYARD

Start Date 02 April 2022
End Date 30 April 2022
Venue The Horse Hospital
Location London, England

1974

For Heads and Toes

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

2013

Jewels of the Connoisseur

Start Date 27 July 2013
End Date 06 October 2013
Venue The Pimco Foundation Gallery, Bowers Museum
Location Santa Ana, California, USA

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

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

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

1972

Hats Unlimited

Start Date 11 March 1972
End Date 09 April 1972
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, USA
Curator
Vitrine display of hats

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

2022

Dress Code – Fashion Stories from The Box

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

2018

Dressing Toronto

Start Date 1 November 2018
End Date 30 November 2018
Venue Fashion History Museum
Location Ontario, Canada
Curator Jonathan Walford

Exposed: Unmentionables 1900s – 1960s

Start Date 30 January 2018
End Date 29 April 2018
Venue The Esse Purse Museum
Location Little Rock, Arkansas, uSA

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

Style in Revolt

Start Date 16 December 2021
End Date March 2022
Venue T-10/SKP-S
Location Beijing, China
Curator Kennedy, led by Hannah Beach
Designer Caret Studio and Buromosa
Co-curated by Fraser Cooke, Paul Mittleman, Sami Janjer and Acyde Odunlami
With the generous support of Giorgio de Mitri
Soundtracked by musical director, James Lavelle
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2015

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

Start Date 27 June 2015
End Date Summer 2016
Venue Harris Museum and Art Gallery
Location Preston, UK
Curator Kathryn Rogerson

Putting on the Glitz (Touring)

Start Date 16 October 2015
End Date 26 February 2016
Venue Lady Lever Art Gallery
Location Liverpool, UK
Curator Pauline Rushton

2016

Putting on the Glitz: Touring

Start Date 25 March 2016
End Date 26 March 2017
Venue Sudley House
Location Liverpool, UK
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2012

Stars en Dior (Stars in Dior)

Start Date 2012
End Date 2012
Venue Musée Christian Dior
Location Granville, France
Curator Barbara Jeauffroy-Mairet

Grace Kelly: Style Icon (Touring)

Start Date 11 March 2012
End Date 17 June 2012
Venue Bendigo Art Gallery
Location Bendigo, Australia
Curator Jenny Lister
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins and images

2010

Grace Kelly: Style Icon (Touring)

Start Date October 2010
End Date June 2012
Venue Toured by The British Council

2019

Grace De Monaco: Princess in Dior

Start Date 27 April 2019
End Date 17 November 2019
Venue Musée Christian Dior
Location Granville, France
Curator Florence Müller and Gwénola Fouilleul
Designer Agence Alighieri
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2010

Marriage in the Movies

Start Date 2010
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