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2024

Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London

Start Date 04 October 2024
End Date 09 March 2025
Venue Fashion and Textile Museum
Location London, UK
Curator Martin Green, Duovision Arts, and NJ Stevenson
Designer Beth Ojari
A collection of mannequins wearing vibrant colours and patterns, in hues of purple, pink, yellow and blue.

Framing Fashion: Art and Inspiration from a Private Collection of Vivienne Westwood

Start Date 19 October 2024
End Date 02 March 2025
Venue Bowes Museum
Location Barnard Castle, Teesdale, UK
Curator Rachel Whitworth
Four outfits displayed on mannequin in hues of blue, purple red and green tartan.

2025

Vivienne Westwood & Jewellery – A Retrospective Exhibition | Vivienne Westwood®

Start Date 17 January 2025
End Date 27 April 2025
Venue Te Papa (Museum of New Zealand)
Location Wellington, New Zealand
Designer Nomad Exhibitions
An installation of four female mannequins, all wearing hues of gold, white and black.

2022

Heads up: Hats, Hoods, Hip-hop Caps

Start Date 20 October 2022
End Date 30 April 2023
Venue Bayerisches Nationalmuseum
Location Munich, Germany
Curator Johannes Pietsch
Five on display in hues of blue, cream, green, and red.

2013

The Bag: A Cultural History from the 16th to the 21st Century

Start Date 11 April 2013
End Date 27 October 2013
Venue Bayerisches Nationalmuseum
Location Munich, Germany
Curator Johannes Pietsch
Vitrines displaying five handbags. In different hues of black, brown, and cream

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.

2018

Frida Kahlo:
Making Her Self Up

Start Date 16 June 2018
End Date 18 November 2018
Venue V&A
Location London, UK
Curator Claire Wilcox and Circe Henestrosa
Curatorial Advisor Gannit Ankorias
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2019

Manolo Blahnik: The Art of Shoes

Start Date 16 May 2018
End Date 06 January 2019
Venue Bata Shoe Museum
Location Toronto, Canada
exhibition display of shoes in several glass cases in gallery

2024

Barbie®: A Cultural Icon Exhibition

Start Date 14 February 2024
End Date 07 July 2024
Venue Phoenix Art Museum
Location Phoenix, USA
Curator Karan Feder and Mattel
Installation of a pink Barbie dress, display cabinets of Barbie dolls in multicolours.

Lee Alexander McQueen & Ann Ray: Rendez-Vous (Touring)

Start Date 30 May 2024
End Date 25 August 2024
Venue Frist Art Museum
Location Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Curator Katie Delmez and Kelly Peck
Designer Nic Cherry, Kelly Peck, and Kasper Woldtvedt
A female mannequin wearing a long black dress with gold embellishments. to the right off the image our a collection of more female mannequins wearing colourful dresses in hues of white, orange, blue and green.

Moda in volo alle Uccelliere Farnesiane (Fashion in Flight at Uccelliere Farnesiane)

Start Date 24 April 2024
End Date 21 July 2024
Venue Uccelliere Farnesiane, Parco Archeologico del Colosseo
Location Rome, Italy
Curator Sofia Gnoli
installation shot of mannequin with dress made of yellow and black feathers with image reflected behind

2023

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.

2024

Poetry of Time

Start Date 26 May 2024
End Date 09 June 2024
Venue Cromwell Place
Location London, UK
Curator Van Cleef & Arpels
A garden inspired vitrine displaying jewellery and watches , with hues of blue, green and yellow.

Dal Cuore alle Mani: DOLCE&GABBANA (From the Heart to the Hands: DOLCE&GABBANA)

Start Date 07 April 2024
End Date 31 July 2024
Venue Palazzo Reale
Location Milan, Italy
Curator Florence Müller
Angelic female costumes that are displayed in a row against a silver backdrop

Manish Arora exhibition: ‘Life Is Beautiful’

Start Date 27 March 2024
End Date 18 August 2024
Venue SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film
Location Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Curator Rafael Gomes

Barbie®: The Exhibition

Start Date 05 July 2024
End Date 23 February 2025
Venue The Design Museum
Location London, UK
Curator Danielle Thom
A pink display of three female mannequins dressed in one black floor length piece and two colourful pink outfits

2023

Direct from Graceland: Elvis the Exhibition

Start Date 20 October 2023
End Date 01 September 2024
Venue Arches London Bridge
Location London, UK
Curator Angie Marchese
Male mannequins all wearing variations the iconic white Elvis suit.

2024

Untying the Bow

Start Date 01 March 2024
End Date 24 March 2024
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA

2023

Japan: Myths to Manga

Start Date 14 October 2023
End Date 11 August 2024
Venue Young V&A
Location London,UK
Curator Katy Canales, Mary Redfern and Masami Yamada.
Heels by designer Noritaka Tatehana in bold pink, red and blue colours and presented in different sizes.

2024

Imaginary Conversations

Start Date 22 June 2024
End Date 20 October 2024
Venue Chatsworth House
Location Derbyshire,UK
Curator Erdem Moralioglu
A trio of mannequins dressed in male and female historical clothing. Hues of yellow, purple and beige delight these garments.

Selections from the Collection

Start Date 04 April 2024
End Date 04 April 2027
Venue Museum of Contemporary Art Africa
Location Cape Town,South Africa
Curator Khanyi Mawhayi

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

2024

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.

Cristóbal Balenciaga exhibition: ‘Master of Tailoring’

Start Date 25 January 2024
End Date 02 June 2024
Venue SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film
Location Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Curator Gaël Mamine
In collaboration with Gaspard de Massé
And Gonzalo Parodi
Organized by Rafael Gomes

2021

What’s In Your Bag?

Start Date 21 July 2021
End Date 18 July 2022
Venue Kent State University Museum
Location Kent, Ohio, USA
Curator Pierce Morgan

2023

Head to Toe

Start Date 02 February 2023
End Date 23 July 2023
Venue Kent State University Museum
Location Kent, Ohio, USA

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

Dressed to Impress: Footwear and Consumerism in the 1980s

Start Date 01 November 2023
End Date 16 March 2025
Venue Bata Shoe Museum
Location Toronto, Canada
Curator Nishi Bassi
A gallery display with the phrase 'Pump It Up' in 80s-style font

2010

Socks: Between You and Your Shoes

Start Date 07 April 2010
End Date 01 April 2011
Venue Bata Shoe Museum
Location Toronto, Canada
Curator Elizabeth Semmelhack

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

2023

Obsessed: How Shoes Became Objects of Desire

Start Date 19 October 2022
End Date 24 April 2024
Venue Bata Shoe Museum
Location Toronto, Canada
Curator Elizabeth Semmelhack

Awe & Alchemy

Start Date 15 September 2023
End Date 04 November 2023
Venue The Market Place Theatre
Location Armagh, Northern Ireland

2017

The Power of Plastics: Reshaping Midcentury Fashion

Start Date 29 August 2017
End Date 07 January 2017
Venue The Esse Purse Museum
Location Arkansas, USA

2016

The Art of Handbags

Start Date 16 August 2016
End Date 25 September 2016
Venue The Esse Purse Museum
Location Arkansas, USA
Curator Kent Stetson

1987

New Fashion for the 80s

Start Date 16 May 1987
End Date 02 August 1987
Venue National Gallery of Australia
Location Kamberri/Canberra, Australia
Curator Robyn Healy

2017

Judith Leiber: Crafting a New York Story

Start Date 04 April 2017
End Date 06 August 2017
Venue Museum of Arts and Design
Location New York
Curator Samantha De Tillio

2003

Mart Visser: Haute Couture

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

2005

Hearwear

Start Date 26 July 2005
End Date 05 March 2006
Venue V&A
Location London, England
A gallery view showing two sections entitled '2012' and '2016' in large red lettering on black walls. In '2016', are three white mannequins and portrait photos.

2022

Bags: Inside Out

Start Date 23 December 2022
End Date 14 May 2023
Venue ModeMuseum
Location Hasselt, Belgium
Curator Lucia Savi
A display of seven handbags, including one with fake french fries, sit against a black backdrop.

2020

DRESS.CODE.

Start Date 01 October 2020
End Date 09 May 2021
Venue ModeMuseum
Location Hasselt, Belgium
Linen halter bodice by Maison Martin Margiela, displayed on a tailor's dummy

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

2009

Swedish Fashion: Exploring a New Identity

Start Date 06 February 2009
End Date 17 May 2009
Venue Fashion and Textile Museum
Location London, England
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins on white pedestals

2015

Liberty in Fashion

Start Date 09 October 2015
End Date 28 February 2016
Venue Fashion and Textile Museum
Location London, UK
Curator Dennis Nothdruft
A group of eight dresses displayed on mannequins and one coat on a tailor's dummy, all in contrasting Liberty prints

2018

Traditional Clothing Icons

Start Date 15 March 2018
End Date 03 June 2018
Venue Museo Del Traje
Location Madrid, Spain
Curator Olivier Saillard / Helena López de Hierro
Curatorial team Clothing: Concha Herranz, Jewelry: Maria Antonia Herradón, Photography: Concha García-Hoz
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

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

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'

2019

The Gold Standard: Glittering Footwear from Around the Globe

Start Date 12 August 2019
End Date 19 December 2019
Venue Bata Shoe Museum
Location Toronto, Canada
Curator Elizabeth Semmelhack

2017

Shading. Hats in the Surreal Key

Start Date 18 November 2017
End Date 10 December 2017
Venue Museo Del Traje
Location Madrid, Spain
Designer Susana Loureda
hats mounted in a corridor

2021

Oceanista – Fashion & the Sea

Start Date 02 April 2021
End Date 29 August 2021
Venue M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark
Location Elsinore, Denmark
Curator The Maritime Museum of Denmark in collaboration with fashion researcher Maria Mackinney-Valentin
Designer Julian Juhlin
Exhibition with mannequins on a plinth among seaweed-like plants

2017

The Elegant Other: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Fashion and Art

Start Date 15 April 2017
End Date 25 June 2017
Venue Yokohama Museum of Art
Location Yokohama, Japan
headless mannequins displaying various ensembles

2016

Haute-à-Porter

Start Date 02 April 2016
End Date 11 September 2016
Venue Modemuseum
Location Hasselt, Belgium
Curator Filep Motwary
Designer Lien Wauters
Design: Brusatto
Project coordinator: Kenneth Ramaekers
exhibition mannequins

2018

Guo Pei: Couture Beyond

Start Date 07 September 2019
End Date 04 March 2018
Venue SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film
Location Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Exhibition with two mannequins displaying Guo Pei 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

1974

For Heads and Toes

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

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

2013

Jewels by JAR

Start Date 20 November 2013
End Date 09 March 2014
Venue Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location New York, USA
Curator Jane Adlin

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

2011

Traditional Jewellery and Dress From The Balkans

Start Date 01 January 2011
End Date 11 September 2011
Venue British Museum
Location London, UK

The Finishing Touch: Women’s Accessories 1830–1940

Start Date 27 May 2011
End Date 11 December 2011
Venue Lady Lever Art Gallery
Location Liverpool, UK
Designer Val Evans Design
Exhibition display of hats in case

The Duchess of Cambridge’s Wedding Dress, Jewellery and Accessories

Start Date 23 July 2011
End Date 03 October 2011
Venue Buckingham Palace
Location London, UK
Exhibition display ofwhite wedding dress with long train

The Queen and The Painter, His Wife and Her Wedding Dress

Start Date 09 April 2011
End Date 03 October 2011
Venue Aberdeen Art Gallery
Location Aberdeen, UK

2019

PURSEonality: A Stylish Handbag History

Start Date 11 October 2019
End Date 30 October 2020
Venue Moravian Museum of Bethlehem
Location Pennsylvania, USA

2023

Fresh, Fly, and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip Hop Style

Start Date 01 February 2023
End Date 01 April 2023
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA
Curator Co-curated by Elena Romero and Elizabeth Way

2021

Cinquanta

Start Date 01 October 2021
End Date 10 October 2021
Venue Darwen Market Basement
Location Darwen, Lancashire

2018

Good as Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women

Start Date 24 October 2018
End Date 02 February 2020
Venue Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
Location Washington, D.C., USA
Curator Amanda M. Maples
Exhibition display of jewelry in case

2008

Sole Desire: The Shoes of Christian Louboutin

Start Date 13 March 2008
End Date 19 April 2008
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA
Curator Whitney A. Jones and Julie Ann Orsini
Designer Alyssa Panetta and George W. Veale VI

2010

Scandal Sandals and Lady Slippers: A History of Delman Shoes

Start Date 09 March 2010
End Date 02 May 2025
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA
Curator Sarah Byrd and Laura Mina
Designer Nicole Bloomfield with Julia Carlson (design assistant)

2016

(dis)ABLED BEAUTY: the evolution of beauty, disability, and ability

Start Date 29 July 2016
End Date 12 March 2017
Venue Kent State University Museum
Location Kent, USA
Curator Tameka Ellington and Stacey Lim
Designer Jim Williams
Exhibition display of mannequin in white stylised wheelchair

2014

In Fine Style: The Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion

Start Date 28 February 2014
End Date 13 June 2014
Venue The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyrood House
Location Edinburgh, UK
Curator Anna Reynolds

2020

Il Gioiello del Re Sole (The Jewel of the Sun King)

Start Date 10 September 2020
End Date 01 January 1970
Venue Genus Bononiae
Location Bologna, Italy

2008

Gioiello Italiano: Contemporary Jewellery from Italy between Art and Design (Touring)

Start Date 30 October 2008
End Date 11 January 2009
Venue Fondazione Accorsi Ometto
Location Turin, Italy
Curator Alba Cappellieri

Gioiello Italiano: Contemporary Jewellery from Italy between Art and Design (Touring)

Start Date 10 July 2008
End Date 05 October 2008
Venue Decorative Arts Museum (Kunstgewerbemuseum)
Location Berlin, Germany

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

2009

Fashion Accessories Gallery

Start Date 19 September 2009
End Date 28 August 2010
Venue Chertsey Museum
Location Chertsey, 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.

Pankha: A Collection of Hand Fans from the Indian Subcontinent and Beyond by Artist Shri Jatin Das

Start Date 26 May 2018
End Date 24 June 2018
Venue Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts
Location New Delhi, India

2021

Mary Quant: Fashion Revolutionary (touring)

Start Date 20 March 2021
End Date 11 July 2021
Venue Bendigo Art Gallery
Location Bendigo, Australia
Curator Jenny Lister and Stephanie Wood (V&A)

2016

Jewels Inspired by Nature. ILGIZ F.

Start Date 01 April 2016
End Date 31 July 2016
Venue Moscow Kremlin Museums
Location Moscow, Russia

2014

India: Jewels that Enchanted the World

Start Date 12 April 2014
End Date 27 July 2014
Venue Moscow Kremlin Museums
Location Moscow, Russia

2010

Brides Revisited: An Exhibition of Wedding Gowns

Start Date 18 September 2010
End Date 27 August 2011
Venue Chertsey Museum
Location Surrey, UK

2014

An Adaptable Trade: The Jewellery Quarter at War 1914–1918

Start Date 14 June 2014
End Date 27 June 2015
Venue Museum of the Jewellery Quarter
Location Birmingham, UK
Exhibition display of jewellery in cases

2011

Minor. Silver + Gold

Start Date 01 September 2011
End Date 08 January 2012
Venue The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe
Location Hamburg, Germany

2020

Good as Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women (Touring)

Start Date 09 September 2020
End Date 03 January 2021
Venue North Carolina Museum of Art
Location North Carolina, USA
Curator Amanda M. Maples
Exhibition display entrance with Good as Gold banner

2011

Accessorise: A Story of Superficial Splendour

Start Date 05 February 2011
End Date 08 June 2011
Venue Elmbridge Museum
Location Weybridge, Surrey, UK

2014

Elegance in an Age of Crisis: Fashions of the 1930s

Start Date 07 February 2014
End Date 19 April 2014
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA
Curator Patricia Mears and G. Bruce Boyer
Exhibition display of mannequins in swimming costumes

2013

The Cheapside Hoard: London’s Lost Jewels

Start Date 13 October 2013
End Date 27 April 2014
Venue Museum of London
Location London, UK
Curator Ben Kelly
Exhibition display of cabinets containing jewels

2020

Fashioned from Nature (touring)

Start Date 01 December 2020
End Date 01 June 2021
Venue China Silk Museum
Location Hangzhou, China
Curator Edwina Ehrmann
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Fringes, Fur and Feathers

Start Date 01 January 1970
End Date 01 January 1970
Venue Beck Isle Museum
Location Pickering, North Yorkshire, UK

2011

Sadler and the Shawls

Start Date 13 September 2011
End Date 30 March 2012
Venue International Textile Archive, Leeds University
Location Leeds, UK

2019

Accents of Style

Start Date 15 November 2019
End Date 02 February 2020
Venue Armani Silos
Location Milan, Italy
Curator Gorgio Armani

2014

Collectie 02(5): 25 Years Modemuseum Hasselt

Start Date 01 March 2014
End Date 14 September 2014
Venue Modemuseum
Location Hasselt, Belgium
Curator Kenneth Ramaekers
Designer Lien Wauters
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2015

For Richer For Poorer: Weddings Unveiled

Start Date 13 February 2015
End Date 31 May 2015
Venue Jewish Museum
Location London, UK

2020

The Roaring Twenties: Fashions of the Jazz Age

Start Date 25 July 2020
End Date 04 September 2021
Venue Chertsey Museum
Location Chertsey, UK

2009

Fashion & Politics

Start Date 07 July 2009
End Date 07 November 2009
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA
Curator Melissa Marra and Jennifer Farley
Associate curators Colleen Hill, Harumi Hotta, and Lynn Weidner
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2018

For the Birds

Start Date 13 April 2018
End Date 03 February 2019
Venue Kent State University Museum
Location Kent, USA

2017

Shoes: Pleasure and Pain (touring)

Start Date 11 April 2017
End Date 13 August 2017
Venue SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film
Location Atlanta, USA
Curator Helen Persson, with Alexandra Sachs and Rafael Gomes
Exhibition display of footwear

2018

Dressed to Impress

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

2013

Painted Pomp: Art and Fashion in the Age of Shakespeare

Start Date 26 January 2013
End Date 06 May 2013
Venue Holburne Museum
Location Bath, UK

2016

Fashions of Southern Africa

Start Date 26 August 2016
End Date 02 July 2017
Venue Kent State University Museum
Location Kent, USA
Curator Sara Hume
Designer Jim Williams
Curatorial work and co-ordination: Allana Finley in South Africa and Lynette Diergaardt in Namibia.