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2024

Thailand: Colour of Culture – Exploring the Textiles of the Hilltribes

Start Date 04 May 2024
End Date 23 June 2024
Venue Whitchurch Silk Mill
Location Hampshire, UK
Curator Namfon Laistrooglai
Two woven jackets on a display wall. 1 red woven pattern and a blue women pattern.

Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art

Start Date 13 February 2024
End Date 26 May 2024
Venue The Barbican
Location London,UK
Curator The Barbican, London and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Blue woven fabrics of different shapes and patterns sewed together

2023

Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery

Start Date 08 July 2023
End Date 29 October 2023
Venue Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge
Location Cambridge, UK
Curator Rachel Dedman

2024

Crossing the warp – Thread by thread Exhibition

Start Date 13 January 2024
End Date 17 March 2024
Venue Whitchurch Silk Mill
Location Hampshire,UK
Curator Seven Sisters Handweavers

2022

Guo Pei: Art of Couture

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

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

2015

Ya Hafeth Ya Ameen

Start Date 18 November 2015
End Date 28 February 2017
Venue Tiraz Centre
Location Amman, Jordan

Golden Threads of Bethlehem

Start Date 26 January 2015
End Date 28 March 2015
Venue Tiraz Centre
Location Amman, Jordan

2017

Woven: the Art of Traditional Weavings in Jordan

Start Date 28 November 2017
End Date 06 April 2018
Venue Tiraz Centre
Location Amman, Jordan

2021

Syrian Glory: Costume Exhibition in Honour of a Nation

Start Date 01 January 2021
End Date 31 August 2023
Venue Tiraz Centre
Location Amman, Jordan

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

2020

Playground – The Design of Sneakers

Start Date 26 June 2020
End Date 07 March 2021
Venue Musée du Design
Location Bordeaux, France
Curator Constance Rubini
Designer Mathieu Lehanneur and Arthur Fosse
Exhibition display of trainers in a triangle-shaped plinth

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

2014

Intimate

Start Date 05 March 2014
End Date 19 May 2014
Venue Musée du Design
Location Bordeaux, France
Curator Caroline Fillon
Exhibition display of shoes with stuffed birds on metal plinths

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 Pinasa
Designer Philippine Ordinaire and Olivier Coquet
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

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 Pinasa
Designer Bernard Connan
Exhibition Display of 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 Pinasa
Designer Delphine Lebovici

2023

Generation Paper: A Fashion Phenom of the 1960s

Start Date 18 March 2023
End Date 27 August 27 2023
Venue Museum of Arts and Design
Location New York, U.S.A
Curator Elissa Auther

2020

Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto

Start Date 01 October 2020
End Date 14 March 2021
Venue Palais Galliera
Location Paris, France
Curator Miren Arzalluz, Véronique Belloir and Marie-Laure Gutton
Designer Ciel Architects
Artistic Director Olivier Saillard
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2022

Kimono Style: The John C Weber Collection

Start Date 07 June 2022
End Date 20 February 2023
Venue The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location New York, USA
Curator Monika Bincsik and Karen Van Godtsenhoven
Exhibition with mannequins dressed kimonos behind glass with a patterned background

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

2019

Top Floor

Start Date 13 April 2019
End Date 08 September 2019
Venue Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Location The Hague, Netherlands
Curator Philip Akkerman
Gallery view showing three dressed mannequins on low yellow plinths, dissplayed alongside prints, vases, and display cases of objects.

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.

2019

Piecemakers

Start Date 11 October 2019
End Date 11 January 2020
Venue Fashion Space Gallery, London College of Fashion
Location London, England
Curator Susanna Cordner
Three steel bench stations exhibiting 2D and 3D objects in front of a blue and white patterned textile hung next to a sign saying 'EMBELLISHMENTS'

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

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

2019

Lucy McRae: Body Architect

Start Date 30 August 2019
End Date 09 February 2020
Venue National Gallery of Victoria
Location Melbourne, Australia
Curator Simone LeAmon
Designer Julie Beuchet, Ingrid Rhule

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

2022

Silhouettes by Yasmina Ajbilou

Start Date 27 August 2022
End Date 27 November 2022
Venue Centraal Museum
Location Utrecht, The Netherlands
Curator Yasmina Ajbilou
Exhibition installation shot of mannequin with colourful crafted cape in multitude of textures. The mannequin is reflected in an adjacent perspex screen

2021

Paris of the North – NK’s French Couture Atelier 1902–1966 

Start Date 17 September 2021 
End Date 01 October 2023
Venue Nordiska museet
Location Stockholm, Sweden
Curator A collaboration between Nordiska museet and Susanna Strömquist with support from Nordiska Kompaniet (NK).
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2016

Cambrian Mountain Wool

Start Date 09 January 2016
End Date 27 November 2016
Venue National Wool Museum of Wales
Location Dre-fach Felindre, Wales

2022

Homo Faber. Details: Genealogies of ornament

Start Date 10 April 2022
End Date 01 May 2022
Venue Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Location Venice, Italy
Curator Judith Clark
Designer Judith Clark with Sam Collins
Exhibition with mannequins on a plinth

2019

Kimono Refashioned: Japan’s Impact on International Fashion

Start Date 08 February 2019
End Date 05 May 2019
Venue Asian Art Museum (in partnership with the Kyoto Costume Institute)
Location San Fransisco, California
Curator Rie Nii (Kyoto Costume Institute) Yuki Morishina and Karin Oen
exhibition display of mannequins in the space

Kimono: Refashioning Contemporary Style

Start Date 28 June 2019
End Date 15 September 2019
Venue Cincinnati Art Museum (in partnership with the Kyoto Costume Institute and Asian Art Museum, San Francisco)
Location Ohio, United States of America
Curator Cynthia Amneus

2006

The Fabric of Cultures: Fashion Identity: Globalization

Start Date 01 January 2006
End Date 14 February 2006
Venue Godwin–Ternbach Museum
Location New York, USA
mannequins on display

2016

The Art of Fashion in Mexico, 1940-2015

Start Date 01 May 2016
End Date 25 September 2016
Venue Historical Palacio de Iturbide
Location Mexico City, Mexico
Curator Juan Coronel Rivera
exhibition mannequins

2019

Shape Up: Case Studies in Fashion Making

Start Date 23 September 2019
End Date 08 December 2019
Venue UC Davis Design Museum
Location Davis, California, USA
Curator Adele Zhang
Exhibition display with three mannequins displaying dress and a Kimono hanging from the wall.

2021

Marina Dempster & Meera Sethi: In Visible

Start Date 01 January 2021
End Date 31 May 2021
Venue Art Gallery of Burlington
Location Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Curator Hitoko Okada
Exhibition with two standing glass cabinets displaying footwear, and two painting displayed on separate walls.

2008

The Cutting Edge

Start Date 19 November 2008
End Date 07 July 2009
Venue Textile Museum of Canada
Location Toronto, Canada
Curator Patricia Bentley
display of exhibition mannequins

2007

You Wenfeng: Fish Skin Clothing

Start Date 18 April 2007
Venue Textile Museum of Canada
Location Ontario, Canada
Curator Natalia Nekrassova
vitrine display of footwear

1997

Women’s Garments from Mexico and Guatemala

Start Date 22 July 1997
End Date 1997
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, USA

1998

The Jewels of Lalique

Start Date 03 February 1998
End Date 12 April 1998
Venue Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Location New York, USA

2007

The Blues

Start Date 25 July 2007
End Date 06 April 2008
Venue Textile Museum of Canada
Location Toronto, Canada
Curator Patricia Bentley
display of exhibition mannequins

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

1975

Irving Yachnes, MD: Jewelry, Hand Wrought Silver

Start Date 20 April 1975
End Date 08 May 1975
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, USA
Curator Brooklyn Museum Art School

2008

Calder Jewelry

Start Date 09 December 2008
End Date 01 March 2009
Venue Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location New York, USA
Curator Jane Adlin

2022

Kaffe Fassett: The Power of the Pattern

Start Date 22 September 2022
End Date 12 March 2023
Venue Fashion and Textile Museum
Location London, UK

2011

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

2010

Textile Treasures from 17th to 19th Centuries

Start Date 15 March 2010
End Date 2010
Venue Maidstone Museum
Location Kent, UK

2011

Support and Seduction: Three Hundred Years of Underwear

Start Date 28 May 2011
End Date 13 May 2012
Venue Snibston Discovery Park
Location Leicester, UK

2002

This Work in Hand: Philadelphia Needlework from the 18th Century

Start Date 31 August 2002
End Date 12 January 2002
Venue Winterthur, Museum
Location Winterthur, Delaware, USA

2022

The Needle’s I: Stitching Identity

Start Date 17 September 2022
End Date 2022
Venue Winterthur, Museum
Location Winterthur, Delaware, USA

2015

The Diligent Needle: Instrument of Profit, Pleasure, and Ornament

Start Date 02 March 2015
End Date 16 July 2016
Venue Winterthur, Museum
Location Winterthur, Delaware, USA
Curator Linda Eaton
Exhibition display of embroidered cushion and garments

2021

Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto (Touring)

Start Date 04 December 2021
End Date 2022
Venue National Gallery of Victoria
Location Melbourne, Australia
Curator Miren Arzalluz and Véronique Belloir
Artistic Director Olivier Saillard
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2010

The Sons of St Crispin: The History of the Boot and Shoe Trade Unions

Start Date 11 September 2010
End Date 06 February 2011
Venue Northampton Museum
Location Northampton, UK

2021

Prix des Métiers d’art du Hainaut Lauréats 2019 et 2020 (Hainaut Crafts Prize)

Start Date 06 February 2021
End Date 28 March 2021
Venue Maison Losseau
Location Mons, Belgium
Exhibition display of hats

2015

Sport to Street: The History of the Training Shoe

Start Date 15 January 2015
End Date 03 July 2015
Venue Northampton Museum
Location Northampton, UK

2010

Ruffled Feathers

Start Date 02 March 2010
End Date 31 December 2010
Venue Lotherton Hall
Location Leeds, UK

Parisian Fashion From The Journal Des Dames Et Des Modes 1912–1914

Start Date 28 May 2010
End Date 17 October 2010
Venue Scotland Street School Museum
Location Glasgow, Scotland, UK

2021

Tiempos De Vestimenta 1860-1960: Colección González-moro (Dress Times 1860-1960: González-moro Collection)

Start Date 04 April 2021
End Date 01 October 2021
Venue Museum of Belas Artes da Coruña
Location Coruña, Spain
Curator Román Padín Otero
Designer Fernando Agrasar Quiroga
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

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 0 3 April 2010
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA
Curator Sarah Byrd and Laura Mina
Designer Nicole Bloomfield with Julia Carlson (design assistant)

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

1985

Leaders of Fashion: Salvatore Ferragamo (1898-1960)

Start Date 1985
End Date 1985
Venue Florence Exhibition Centre
Location Florence, Italy

2014

Imagine … Lace at Waddesdon Manor

Start Date 26 March 2014
End Date 26 October 2014
Venue Waddesdon Manor
Location Buckinghamshire, UK

2021

Broderie (Embroidery)

Start Date 2021
End Date 19 December 2021
Venue Musée de la Mode
Location Albi, Tarn, Occitanie, France

Brussels Touch

Start Date 27 August 2021
End Date 22 May 2022
Venue Musée Mode & Dentelle
Location Brussels, Belgium
Curator Lydia Kamitsis
Designer Antigone Aristidou
Formerly Musée du Costume et de la dentelle

2018

Embroidery: The Thread of History

Start Date 05 October 2018
End Date 05 January 2019
Venue Winterthur Museum
Location Winterthur, Delaware, USA

2014

En Tous Points Parfaits (In Every Way Perfect)

Start Date 05 May 2014
End Date 24 December 2014
Venue Musée de la Visitation
Location Moulins, France
Curator Gérard Picaud and Jean Foisselon

2018

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

Object Journeys Fashioning Africa

Start Date 31 March 2018
End Date 31 March 2019
Venue Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
Location Brighton, UK
Curator Edith Ojo and Tshepo Skwambane

2010

A Regola d’arte

Start Date 2010
End Date 2011
Venue Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
Location Florence, Italy
Curator Stefania Ricci

2019

100 Years of Fashion

Start Date 06 April 2019
End Date 08 September 2019
Venue Bailiffgate Museum
Location Alnwick, UK

2009

75 Years of Stitching Yorkshire

Start Date 06 October 2009
End Date 24 February 2010
Venue Lotherton Hall
Location Leeds, UK

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

2008

Salvatore Ferragamo Evolving Legend 1928-2008

Start Date 30 March 2008
End Date 07 May 2008
Venue Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
Location Florence, Italy
Curator Stefania Ricci and Cristina Morozzi
Red shoes on display

2014

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

2019

Noritaka Tatehana: Refashioning Beauty

Start Date 05 October 2019
End Date 01 December 2019
Venue Portland Japanese Garden
Location Portland, Oregon, USA
Curator Laura J. Mueller and Christina Cacouris
Exhibition display of cut out animal-shaped figures with flowers in background

Beautiful Lace & Carine Gilson

Start Date 10 July 2019
End Date 19 April 2020
Venue Musée Mode & Dentelle
Location Brussels, Belgium
Curator Caroline Esgain
Designer Antigone Aristidou
Formerly Musée du Costume et de la dentelle
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2021

Sneakers Unboxed: Studio to Street

Start Date 18 May 2021
End Date 24 October 2021
Venue Design Museum
Location London, UK
Curator Ligaya Salazar
Exhibition display of trainers and sportswear with person viewing

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

Inspiration and Vision

Start Date 27 May 2011
End Date 12 March 2012
Venue Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
Location Florence, Italy
Curator Stefania Ricci and Sergio Risaliti
Exhibition display of shoes with stuffed birds on metal plinths

2019

Fashion and Feathers in Fashion

Start Date 01 October 2019
End Date 20 January 2020
Venue Cornell University
Location Ithaca, NY, USA
Curator Denise Nicole Green, John Fitzpatrick and Vanya Rohwer
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins in glass case with pattern fabric in background

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

2015

El Hilo Invisible: Mujeres Que Cosen. Colección De Ropa Victòria Antó
(The Invisible Thread: Women Who Sew. Victòria Antó Clothing Collection)

Start Date 14 May 2015
End Date 09 August 2015
Venue Museu De Lleida
Location Lleida, Spain
Curator Rosa M. Martín i Ros
Exhibition display of white garments displayed in metal frames

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

2018

Local Import: Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola

Start Date 21 February 2018
End Date 2018
Venue Museum of Arts and Design
Location New York, USA
Curator Elissa Auther

2011

Lost in Lace: Concealed and Revealed

Start Date 29 October 2011
End Date 19 February 2012
Venue Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Location Birmingham, UK
Curator Lesley Millar

2013

MODA. Made in Italy

Start Date  20 June 2013
End Date 08 February 2014
Venue Modemuseum
Location Hasselt, Belgium
Curator Kenneth Ramaekers
Designer MASSarchitects Massimo Pignanelli
Design: Brusatto
Research: Eve Demoen
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Last Man Standing: Springline Shoe Lasts

Start Date 05 November 2013
End Date 29 December 2013
Venue Northampton Museum
Location Northampton, UK

2015

Fashionable Art: MASP Rhodia Collection (Arte na Moda: Coleção Masp Rhodia)

Start Date 23 October 2015
End Date 03 February 2016
Venue Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP)
Location São Paulo, Brazil
Curator Adriano Pedrosa, Patricia Carta,  Tomás Toledo
Designer Metro Arquitetos
Overhead view of exhibition installation shot

2014

Teresa Whitfield – Drawing Museum Lace – An Unexpected Look

Start Date 13 September 2014
End Date 07 February 2015
Venue Salisbury Museum
Location Salisbury, UK

2016

Stitch Stitch Stitch

Start Date 10 September 2016
End Date 29 January 2017
Venue Discovery Museum
Location Newcastle, UK

2018

Miao Costumes in Guizhou

Start Date March 2018
End Date May 2018
Venue China National Silk Museum
Location Hangzhou, China

2020

Christian Dior

Start Date 25 September 2020
End Date 02 May 2021
Venue McCord Museum of Canadian History
Location Montreal, Canada
Curator Alexandra Palmer, Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2016

Eleganza: Italian Fashion From 1945 to Today

Start Date 24 May 2016
End Date 25 September 2016
Venue McCord Museum of Canadian History
Location Montreal, Canada
Curator Sonnet Stanfill, V&A Museum, London
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2019

Culture/Counterculture:
Fashions of the 1960s and 1970s

Start Date 20 September 2019
End Date 20 November 2020
Venue Kent State University Museum
Location Kent, USA
Curator Sara Hume
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins