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2023

Making Mischief: Folk Costume in Britain

Start Date 11 February 2023
End Date 11 June 2023
Venue Compton Verney Museum and Art Gallery
Location Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
Curator Simon Costin, Amy de la Haye and Mellany Robinson
Designer Simon Costin, Museum of British Folklore
A partnership with Museum of British Folklore, the Centre for Fashion Curation at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London and Compton Verney.
Made possible by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Mannequins dressed embellished horse collar and hat from the Boy's Ploughing Match and The Festival of the Horse costume from the Orkney Islands

2010

Japan Fashion Now

Start Date 17 September 2010
End Date 08 January 2011
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA
Curator Valerie Steele and Patricia Mears
Designer Charles B. Froom
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins with an urban backdrop

2021

Fashion’s Subversives

Start Date 05 June 2021
End Date 28 November 2021
Venue Phoenix Art Gallery
Location Phoenix, USA
2 images of exhibition with mannequins on a plinth displaying black short garment and green jacket draped over shoulder. Tattoos on legs

2011

ARRRGH! Monsters in Fashion

Start Date 15 May 2011
End Date 31 July 2011
Venue Benaki Museum
Location Athens, Greece
Curator Vassilis Zidianakis
Designer Stamos Fafalios
Exhibition display of mannequins dressed as monsters

2019

Fashioning Art from Paper

Start Date 22 October 2019
End Date 12 January 2020
Venue SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film
Location Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Curator Alexandra Sachs
Exhibition with a decorative wall and a plinth holding four mannequins displaying paper garments

Fantastical Threads: Costumes at The Rooms

Start Date 01 October 2019
End Date 04 November 2019
Venue The Rooms
Location St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Exhibition display of costume on mannequin

1981

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

Start Date 23 June 1981
End Date unknown
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

2010

Titanic: Dressing for Three Classes

Start Date 01 October 2010
End Date 31 January 2011
Venue Waterloo Region Children's Museum
Location Ontario, Canada
Curator Fashion History Museum

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

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

1991

HAAR! menselijk haar in mode en kunst (HAIR! human hair in fashion and art)

Start Date 19 January 1991
End Date 03 March 1991
Venue Centraal Museum
Location Utrecht, The Netherlands
Designer Jos Stoopman
exhibition display of mannequins

1988

East & West: Kashmir & Paisley Shawls

Start Date 22 January 1988
End Date 17 June 1988
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, USA
Curator Elizabeth Ann Coleman

1974

Ecclesiastical Vestments

Start Date 04 December 1974
End Date 26 January 1975
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, 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

Leigh Bowery – Tell Them I’ve Gone to Papua New Guinea

Start Date 07 January 2022
End Date 06 February 2022
Venue Fitzrovia Chapel
Location London, UK
Curator Hannah Watson with Nicola Bowery Bateman and the Estate of Leigh Bowery
Designer David "Biscuit' Beschizza, Charlotte Mann, Riccardo Pillon
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins of Leigh Bowery

2007

Yves Saint Laurent: Théatre, Cinéma, Music–hall, Ballet

Start Date 04 October 2007
End Date 27 January 2008
Venue Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent
Location Paris, France
Curator Yves Saint Laurent
Designer Christophe Martin
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2019

Silver Screen to Mainstream: American Fashion in the 1930s & ’40s

Start Date 08 April 2019
End Date 21 January 2020
Venue Chicago History Museum
Location Chicago, USA
Curator Virginia Heaven

2020

Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion

Start Date 21 November 2020
End Date 14 March 2020
Venue Peabody Essex Museum
Location Salem, MA, USA
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2013

The Ideal Shoe

Start Date 27 March 2010
End Date 13 June 2010
Venue Northampton Museum and Art Gallery
Location Northampton, UK

2021

Noël Coward: Art and Style

Start Date 14 June 2021
End Date 23 December 2021
Venue Guildhall Art Gallery
Location London, UK
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2015

The Dark Knight Rises

Start Date 18 August 2015
End Date 20 September 2015
Venue Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
Location Brighton, UK

2005

Making Fancy: Materials and Methods in Pennsylvania German Fraktur

Start Date 10 September 2005
End Date 08 January 2006
Venue Winterthur Museum
Location Winterthur, Delaware, USA

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

2011

De L’ombre À La Lumière (From The Shadow To The Light)

Start Date 07 May 2011
End Date 24 December 2011
Venue Musee de la Visitation
Location Moulins, France
Curator Gérard Picaud and Jean Foisselon
Exhibition display of perspex and red cases containing objects

2020

Ruth E. Carter: Afro Futurism in Costume Design

Start Date 18 December 2020
End Date 12 September 2021
Venue SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion and Film
Location Georgia, USA
Curator Rafael Gomes, Christina Frank and Julia Long
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

1998

Cinderella: The Shoe Rediscovered

Start Date 20 September 1998
End Date 22 November 1998
Venue Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
Location Florence, Italy
Curator Michael Howells, Jenny Beavan and Stefania Ricci

2010

Bon Chapeau

Start Date 08 June 2010
End Date 03 October 2010
Venue Whitchurch Silk Mill
Location Hampshire, UK

2009

Australia behind the scenes

Start Date 2009
End Date 2009
Venue Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
Location Florence, Italy
Curator Stefania Ricci

2019

The Tuxedo Redefined: Formality, Fluidity, and Femininity

Start Date 11 December 2019
End Date 05 February 2020
Venue New York University (NYU)
Location New York, USA
Curator Costume Studies Masters degree candidates under the direction of Mellissa Huber
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2011

The Plimoth Jacket: A Paradise in Silk and Gold

Start Date 03 September 2011
End Date 08 January 2012
Venue Winterthur Museum
Location Winterthur, Delaware, USA
Trio of images of Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2015

The Opéra Comique and its treasures (The Opéra Comique and its treasures)

Start Date 07 February 2015
End Date 06 September 2016
Venue Centre National du Costume de Scene
Location Moulins, France
Curator Macha Makeïeff
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2014

Shakespeare: l’étoffe du monde (Shakespeare: The Stuff of the World)

Start Date 14 June 2014
End Date 06 January 2016
Venue Centre National du Costume de Scene
Location Moulins, France
Curator Catherine Treilhou-balaudé, Anne Verdier And Delphine Pinasa
Designer Delphine Lebovici

Plein Feu Sur Les Collections
(Spotlight on Collections)

Start Date 08 February 2014
End Date 18 May 2014
Venue Centre National du Costume de Scene
Location Moulins, France
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2009

Rudolf Noureev: 1938-1993, La Trame D’une Vie
(Rudolf Noureev: 1938-1993, La Trame D’une Vie)

Start Date 09 May 2009
End Date 11 November 2009
Venue Centre National du Costume de Scene
Location Moulins, France
Curator Delphine Pinasa
Designer Ezio Frigerio

Opéras Russes, À L’aube Des Ballets Russes, 1901-1913
(Russian Operas, At the Dawn of the Russian Ballets, 1901-1913)

Start Date 12 December 2009
End Date 16 May 2010
Venue Centre National du Costume de Scene
Location Moulins, France
Curator Delphine Pinasa and Martine Kahane
Designer Giuliano Spinelli
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2017

Modes ! À la ville, à la scène
(Modes! To the city, to the stage)

Start Date 08 April 2017
End Date 17 September 2017
Venue Centre National du Costume de Scene
Location Moulins, France
Curator Catherine Join-dieterle and Sylvie Richoux
Designer Alain Batifoulier and Simon De Tovar

2016

Les Fleurs de la Gloire (The Flowers of Glory)

Start Date 10 May 2016
End Date 23 December 2016
Venue Musee de la Visitation
Location Moulins, France
Curator Gérard Picaud and Jean Foisselon
Exhibition display of tunics suspended

2011

Le Costume en Scène (The Costume on Stage)

Start Date 21 May 2011
End Date 28 August 2011
Venue Musée Magnin
Location Dijon, France
Curator Vincent Termeulen
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins in 17th Century garments with hoods in front of portrait

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

2011

L’art du costume à la Comédie-Française (The Art of Costume at The Comédie-française)

Start Date 11 June 2011
End Date December 2011
Venue Centre National du Costume de Scene
Location Moulins, France
Curator Renato Bianchi and Agathe Sanjuan
Designer Roberto Platé and Jacques Rouveyrollis
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2007

Jean-Paul Gaultier – Régine Chopinot: The parade

Start Date 01 December 2007
End Date 27 April 2008
Venue Centre National du Costume de Scene
Location Moulins, France
Curator Delphine Pinasa and Olivier Saillard
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins with gold backdrop

2020

Hats Off: Halston Hats from the Masterson Collection

Start Date 11 January 2020
End Date 03 January 2021
Venue The Museum of Fine Arts (MFAH)
Location Houston, Texas, USA
Exhibition display of hats on plinths and tables

2014

En Piste ! Les Plus Beaux Costumes De Cirque (On track! The Most Beautiful Circus Costumes)

Start Date 15 June 2014
End Date 05 January 2014
Venue Centre National du Costume de Scene
Location Moulins, France
Curator Joelle Garcia and Delphine Pinasa
Designer Delphine Lebovici
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins in circus outfits, one suspended upside down with shadows in the background

2017

Dressed to Impress: Netsuke and Japanese Men’s Fashion

Start Date 04 November 2017
End Date 22 April 2018
Venue British Museum
Location London, UK
Curator The British Museum, in partnership with The Museum of East Asian Art
Designer Carmody Groarke
Exhibition display of mannequin dressed in kimono in front of screen

2008

Au Fil Des Fleurs, Scènes De Jardins
(Over the Flowers, Garden Scenes)

Start Date 06 December 2008
End Date 19 April 2009
Venue Centre National du Costume de Scene
Location Moulins, France
Curator Delphine Pinasal
Designer Bernard Connan
Exhibition Display of Mannequins

2020

Design in Motion: A New York City Ballet Fall Fashion Gala Retrospective

Start Date 05 February 2020
End Date 21 March 2020
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA
Curator Roger Leong and Yvonne Gates
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2018

Contes de Fées (Fairy Tales)

Start Date 07 April 2018
End Date 04 November 2018
Venue Centre National du Costume de Scene
Location Moulins, France
Curator Martine Kahane, Alain Batifoulier and Simon De Tovar
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2013

Costumer Le Pouvoir À L’opéra Et Au Cinéma (Costumer Le Pouvoir À L’opéra Et Au Cinéma)

Start Date 26 January 2013
End Date 20 May 2013
Venue Centre National du Costume de Scene
Location Moulins, France
Curator Noelle Giret and Martine Kahane
Designer Simon De Tovar and Alain Batifoulier
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2014

Costumes of Downton Abbey

Start Date 01 March 2014
End Date 04 January 2015
Venue Winterthur Museum
Location Wilmington, Delaware, USA
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2019

Comédies Musicales, Les Costumes Font Leur Show! (Musicals, Costumes Make Their Show!)

Start Date December 2019
End Date 28 April 2019
Venue Centre National du Costume de Scene
Location Moulins, France
Curator Delphine Pinasal
Designer Philippine Ordinaire and Olivier Coquet
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2016

Barockissimo ! Les Arts Florissants en scène
(Barockissimo! Les Arts Florissants on stage)

Start Date 09 April 2016
End Date 18 September 2016
Venue Centre National du Costume de Scene
Location Moulins, France
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2017

Artisans De La Scène: La Fabrique Du Costume (Stage Craftsmen: The Costume Factory)

Start Date 14 October 2017
End Date 11 March 2018
Venue Centre National du Costume de Scene
Location Moulins, France
Curator Delphine Pinasal
Designer Delphine Lebovici

2009

An Image of Itself

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

2013

Strictly Shoes

Start Date 05 October 2013
End Date 12 January 2014
Venue Northampton Museum
Location Northampton, UK

2011

Savage Style: costumes from Lily’s wardrobe

Start Date 04 November 2011
End Date 19 February 2012
Venue Walker Art Gallery
Location Liverpool, UK

2014

A Step in Time. The Story of Irish Dance

Start Date 27 June 2014
End Date 09 January 2016
Venue Ulster Folk & Transport Museum
Location Holywood, Northern Ireland
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2008

Requested to Dance – Invited to Dance

Start Date 13 September 2008
End Date 04 January 2009
Venue Modemuseum
Location Hasselt, Belgium
Curator Kenneth Ramaekers
Designer Scenography: Lien Wauters
Lighting:   Jan Dekeyser (In-Vitro)
Consultancy: Jeanne Brabants, Rina Barbier and Katie Verstockt
Design Brusatto
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2014

Trench Coat: From Field to Fashion

Start Date 04 October 2014
End Date 21 December 2014
Venue Winchester Discovery Centre
Location Winchester, UK
Exhibition display of dressed mannequin, text and imagery

2016

Star Wars and the Power of Costume (Touring)

Start Date 13 November 2016
End Date 09 April 2017
Venue Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Location Denver, USA
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2018

Star Wars and the Power of Costume (Touring)

Start Date 20 May 2018
End Date 30 September 2018
Venue Detroit Institute of Arts
Location Detroit, Michigan, USA
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2016

Magical Design for Mozart’s Magic Flute

Start Date 29 September 2016
End Date 08 January 2017
Venue Kent State University Museum
Location Kent, USA
Curator Judy Levin
Designer Caitlin Whittington
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

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

2010

Dream Weavers: Costumes by Cirque du Soleil

Start Date 26 May 2010
End Date 11 October 2010
Venue McCord Museum of National History)
Location Montreal, Canada
Curator Sylvie François
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2019

Costumes in Memory

Start Date 15 March 2019
End Date 05 May 2019
Venue China National Silk Museum
Location Hangzhou, China

2012

Hollywood Costume

Start Date 20 October 2012
End Date 27 January 2013
Venue V&A
Location London, UK
Curator Deborah Nadoolman Landis
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2008

Magnificence of the Tsars

Start Date 10 December 2008
End Date 29 March 2009
Venue V&A
Location London, England
Curator Svetlana Amelekhina

1998

Addressing the Century: 100 Years of Art and Fashion

Start Date 08 October 1998
End Date 11 January 1999
Venue The Hayward Gallery
Location London, England
Curator Peter Wollen
Exhibition display of mannequins and prints

2012

Ballet & Fashion

Start Date 03 November 2012
End Date 19 May 2013
Venue National Gallery of Victoria
Location Melbourne, Australia
Curator Roger Leong and Yvonne Gates
Exhibition display of dress

2014

The Strictly Ballroom Story

Start Date 05 April 2014
End Date 29 November 2014
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location Sydney, Australia
Curator Charles Pickett, Glynis Jones, Lindie Ward

2016

Million Dollar Mermaid: Annette Kellerman

Start Date 10 August 2016
End Date 2017
Venue Powerhouse Museum
Location Sydney, Australia
Curator Peter Cox
Designer Katherine Bond
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2011

Speedo LZR Racer ‘UPcycle’ student collaboration

Start Date 17 October 2011
End Date 27 February 2012
Venue Powerhouse Museum
Location Sydney, Australia
Curator Glynis Jones
Designer Malcolm McKernan

2020

By Royal Appointment: Devon lace-makers

Start Date 08 February 2020
End Date 01 November 2020
Venue Royal Albert Memorial Museum
Location Exeter, UK

2013

Dance and Fashion

Start Date 13 September 2013
End Date 03 January 2014
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA
Curator Valerie Steele
Designer Kimberly Ackert, Ackert Architecture
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2002

Spectacular! Spectacular!: On the set of Moulin Rouge

Start Date 03 July 2002
End Date 16 September 2002
Venue Powerhouse Museum
Location Sydney, Australia
Curator Lindie Ward
Designer T Day
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins in theatrical poses

2004

Goddess

Start Date 08 May 2004
End Date 22 August 2004
Venue MoMu
Location Antwerp, Belgium
Curator Harold Koda
Designer Bob Verhelst
Exhibition display of feminine dress

2015

The Dressmaker Costume Exhibition

Start Date 11 December 2015
End Date 11 March 2016
Venue Barwon Park Mansion
Location Victoria, Australia

2016

An Agreeable Tyrant: Fashion After the Revolution

Start Date 7 October 2016
End Date 29 April 2017
Venue DAR Museum
Location Washington D.C., USA

2020

ALAÏA-ADRIAN: MASTERS OF CUT

Start Date 11 February 2020
End Date 15 November 2020
Venue SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film
Location Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Curator Olivier Saillard and Rafael Gomes
Exhibition display of dress

1975

Six Wives of Henry VIII Costumes

Start Date 06 September 1975
End Date 27 October 1975
Venue Christchurch Art Gallery, Te Puna O Waiwhetu
Location Christchurch, New Zealand Aotearoa

2014

Old Clothing and New Flag: Textiles and Costumes from the Collection of Shanghai History Museum

Start Date December 2014
End Date March 2015
Venue China National Silk Museum
Location Hangzhou, China
Exhibition display of dress

2020

Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

Start Date 03 December 2020
End Date 30 May 2021
Venue Rippon Lea House and Gardens
Location Melbourne, Australia
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2016

Bendigo Art Gallery and Twentieth Century Fox present Marilyn Monroe

Start Date 05 March 2016
End Date 10 July 2016
Venue Bendigo Art Gallery
Location Bendigo, Australia
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2003

Ladies’ Choice: American Women’s Fashion 1950–1965

Start Date 06 June 2003
End Date 16 May 2004
Venue Philadelphia Museum of Art
Location Philadelphia, USA
Curator Kristina Haugland

2019

Flowers Blooming in Flowers Mode (Flowers モードに咲く花)

Start Date 13 July 2019
End Date 01 September 2019
Venue Kobe Fashion Museum
Location Kobe, Japan
Curator Kunio Hamada
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins around a circular floor display of flowers

2015

Inspired Eye: The Donald and Joan Damask Design Collection at the FIDM Museum

Start Date 12 June 2015
End Date 19 December 2015
Venue FIDM
Location Los Angeles, USA
Curator Kevin Jones and Christina Johnson

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

2019

One: Egúngún

Start Date 08 February 2019
End Date 18 August 2019
Venue Brooklyn Museum of Art
Location New York, USA
Curator Kristen Windmuller-Luna
Exhibition display of textiles

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

2011

Cecil Beaton: The New York Years

Start Date 25 October 2011
End Date 22 April 2012
Venue Museum of the City of New York (MCNY)
Location New York, USA

2017

A Tribute to James Galanos

Start Date 19 August 2017
End Date 07 January 2018
Venue The Ellman Fashion Design Gallery, Phoenix Art Museum
Location Phoenix, USA
Exhibition display of dress and imagery

House Style

Start Date 25 March 2017
End Date 22 October 2017
Venue Chatsworth House
Location Derbyshire, UK
Curator Hamish Bowles
Designer Patrick Kinmonth, Antonio Monfreda
Exhibition display of dressed mannequin on stairs

2018

Twinning Carnivals (Hermanando Carnavales)

Start Date 06 February 2018
End Date 15 April 2018
Venue Costume History Museum
Location Chile

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

2017

Adrian: Hollywood and Beyond

Start Date 07 March 2017
End Date 01 April 2017
Venue Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology
Location New York, USA
Curator Graduate students, Fashion and Textile Studies program, FIT’s School of Graduate Studies
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2018

The Fabric of Felicity

Start Date 12 September 2018
End Date 27 January 2019
Venue Garage MCA
Location Moscow, Russia
Curator Valentin Diaconov, Ekaterina Lazareva and Iaroslav Volovod
Exhibition display of a garment suspended above a floor with black curvy lines on the floor

WOW-fashion! World of Wearable Art

Start Date 06 October 2018
End Date 03 February 2019
Venue Erarta Gallery
Location St Petersberg, Russia
Exhibition display of fantasy-style silver costumes