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2025

Weaving, Embroidering, Embellishing. The Crafts and Trades of Fashion

Start Date
13 December 2025
End Date
18 October 2026
Venue
Palais Galliera
Location
Paris, France
Curator
Émilie Hammen (General Curator)
Curators
Marie-Laure Gutton, Samy Jelil, and the entire conservation team

2015

Morris & Co. Design and Manufacture at Warner & Sons

Start Date
04 February 2015
End Date
16 December 2015
Venue
Warner Textile Archive
Location
Braintree, 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

2014

 Making Design 

Start Date
12 December 2014
End Date
01 September 2016
Venue
Cooper Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Design Museum
Location
New York, USA

2019

Costumes in Memory

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

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

2017

Lace in Fashion

Start Date
04 February 2017
End Date
01 January 2018
Venue
Fashion Museum Bath
Location
Bath, UK

2019

Form & Function: Shoe Art by Chris Francis

Start Date
13 August 2019
End Date
31 December 2019
Venue
SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film
Location
Atlanta, USA
Curator
Rafael Gomes
Exhibition display of multi-coloured shoe

2018

I Do! (touring)

Start Date
20 October 2018
End Date
06 January 2019
Venue
Winchester Discovery Centre
Location
Winchester, UK

2014

Kobi and the Playful World of Shoes

Start Date
24 May 2014
End Date
20 July 2014
Venue
Northampton Museum
Location
Northampton, UK

2015

Shoes: Pleasure and Pain

Start Date
13 June 2015
End Date
31 January 2016
Venue
V&A
Location
London, UK
Curator
Helen Persson
Exhibition display of shoes

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

2008

Magnificence of the Tsars

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

2013

Club to Catwalk:
London Fashion in the 1980s

Start Date
10 July 2013
End Date
16 February 2014
Venue
V&A
Location
London, UK
Curator
Claire Wilcox and Wendy Dagworthy
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

1995

Bloom

Start Date
30 March 1995
End Date
20 August 1995
Venue
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location
New York, USA
Curator
Richard Martin and Harold Koda
Designer
Michael Batista

2009

Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones

Start Date
24 February 2009
End Date
31 May 2009
Venue
V&A
Location
London, England
Curator
Oriole Cullen
Exhibition display of hats in a red carpeted corridor

2019

Fans Unfolded: Conserving the Lennox-Boyd collection

Start Date
05 March 2019
End Date
12 July 2020
Venue
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Location
Cambridge, UK
Exhibition display of open fans

2017

Fashion & Satire: The Drawings of Orson Byron Lowell and Charles Dana Gibson

Start Date
28 January 2017
End Date
07 May 2017
Venue
Newport Mansions
Location
Newport, UK
Exhibition display of dressed mannequin and imagery

2021

These Shoes Were Made for Walking

Start Date
09 January 2021
End Date
28 February 2021
Venue
Ayers House Museum
Location
Adelaide, Australia

2017

To Craftsmanship – 2017 Fashion Review

Start Date
01 December 2017
End Date
21 October 2018
Venue
China Silk Museum
Location
Hangzhou, China
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2014

Knitwear: Chanel to Westwood

Start Date
19 September 2014
End Date
18 January 2015
Venue
Fashion and Textile Museum
Location
London, UK
Exhibition display cabinets of knitwear

2015

China: Through the Looking Glass

Start Date
07 May 2015
End Date
27 September 2015
Venue
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location
New York, USA
Curator
Andrew Bolton
Exhibition display of robes

2014

Kaffe 2014: The Colourful World of Kaffe Fassett

Start Date
22 March 2014
End Date
02 November 2014
Venue
American Museum and Gardens
Location
Bath UK
Curator
Kate Hebert
Designer
Johan Engels
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins and imagery

2012

Appearances Can be Deceiving: The Dresses of Frida Kahlo

Start Date
24 November 2012
End Date
24 November 2013
Venue
Frida Kahlo Museum
Location
Mexico City, Mexico
Curator
Circe Henestrosa
Designer
Judith Clark
Display of prosthetic limb with shoe and corsets

2013

Making It: 20 years of Student Fashion

Start Date
08 March 2013
End Date
07 October 2013
Venue
Powerhouse Museum
Location
Sydney, Australia
Curator
Glynis Jones
Designer
Malcolm McKernan
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2015

Japanese Folds

Start Date
16 May 2015
End Date
21 June 2015
Venue
Powerhouse Museum
Location
Sydney, Australia
Curator
Min-Jung Kim
Designer
Vicki Berg
Exhibition display of fans

2014

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

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

2009

MARI FUNAKI, WORKS 1992 – 2009

Start Date
27 June 2009
End Date
18 October 2009
Venue
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Location
Perth, Australia

2016

Necklace for an Elephant and Other Stories: The Working Lives of David Poston

Start Date
12 February 2016
End Date
26 March 2016
Venue
Dovecot Studios
Location
Edinburgh, UK
Curator
Kate Grenyer
Exhibition display cases of jewellery

2015

Hats in the 21st Century. Solo exhibition by Philip Treacy

Start Date
06 February 2015
End Date
12 April 2015
Venue
Erarta Museum
Location
St. Petersburg, Russia
Curator
Philip Treacy
Exhibition display of red headdress on mannequin head

Genesis: Designer shoes of the future

Start Date
19 December 2015
End Date
17 April 2016
Venue
Erarta Museum
Location
St. Petersburg, Russia

2021

Haute Couture: 4 designers – 4 costumes – 4 teams of students

Start Date
18 July 2021
End Date
31 October 2021
Venue
Draiflessen Collection
Location
Mettingen, Germany

2020

Philip Treacy. The Maestro

Start Date
20 November 2020
End Date
21 March 2021
Venue
Erarta Museum
Location
St. Petersburg, Russia
Curator
Philip Treacy
Exhibition display of mannequin heads wearing hats

2014

GEM: Contemporary Jewellery and Gemstones from Afghanistan

Start Date
03 October 2014
End Date
08 November 2014
Venue
Dovecot Studios
Location
Edinburgh, UK
Curator
Melanie Eddy

2018

The Gold Standard: Glittering Footwear From Around the Globe

Start Date
01 January 2018
End Date
31 December 2018
Venue
Bata Shoe Museum
Location
Toronto, Canada
Curator
Elizabeth Semmelhack

2005

Fashion’s Favourites: From Rococo to Romantic

Start Date
23 April 2005
End Date
18 June 2006
Venue
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Location
Philadelphia, USA
Curator
Kristina Haugland

2015

Fashion and Virtue: Textile Patterns and the Print Revolution, 1520-1620

Start Date
20 October 2015
End Date
10 January 2016
Venue
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location
New York, USA
Curator
Femke Speelber

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

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

2004

Patrick Kelly: A Retrospective

Start Date
17 April 2004
End Date
05 September 2004
Venue
Brooklyn Museum
Location
New York, USA
Curator
Thelma Golden

2015

Thom Browne Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection

Start Date
04 March 2015
End Date
23 October 2015
Venue
Cooper Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Design Museum
Location
New York, USA
Curator
Thom Browne
Exhibition display of silver shoes

2017

Counter-Couture: Handmade Fashion in an American Counterculture

Start Date
02 March 2017
End Date
30 August 2017
Venue
Museum of Arts and Design
Location
New York, USA
Curator
Michael Cepress
Organized by Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2019

WANT: Desire, Design and Depression Era Footwear

Start Date
20 January 2019
End Date
30 March 2020
Venue
Bata Shoe Museum
Location
Toronto, Canada
Curator
Elizabeth Semmelhack

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

1993

Ahead of Fashion: Hats of the Twentieth Century

Start Date
21 August 1993
End Date
28 March 1994
Venue
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Location
Philadelphia, USA
Curator
Dilys Blum

2019

Art & Innovation: Traditional Arctic Footwear from the Bata Shoe Museum Collection

Start Date
06 July 2019
End Date
31 December 2019
Venue
Bata Shoe Museum
Location
Toronto, Canada
Curator
Elizabeth Semmelhack
Exhibition display of plinths

2017

Art Deco Paris

Start Date
14 October 2017
End Date
04 March 2018
Venue
Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Location
Netherlands

2010

Lace in Fashion

Start Date
23 July 2010
End Date
23 January 2011
Venue
National Gallery of Victoria
Location
Melbourne, Australia
Curator
Roger Leong and Paola Di Trocchio
Exhibition display of dress

2014

Fashion Detective

Start Date
09 May 2014
End Date
31 August 2015
Venue
National Gallery of Victoria
Location
Melbourne, Australia
Curator
Danielle Whitfield

2017

Balenciaga, L’Oeuvre au Noir

Start Date
08 March 2017
End Date
16 July 2017
Venue
Musée Bourdelle, Palais Galliera
Location
Paris, France
Curator
Véronique Belloir
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins in black framed by metal surrounds

2018

Next Level Craft

Start Date
05 April 2018
End Date
21 October 2018
Venue
Textil Museet
Location
Borås, Sweden
Curator
Aia Jüdes
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Brides. Stories in Silk

Start Date
19 May 2018
End Date
25 September 2018
Venue
Silk Museum
Location
Soufli, Thrace, Greece
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Homo Faber. Fashion Inside and Out

Start Date
14 September 2018
End Date
30 September 2018
Venue
Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Location
Venice, Italy
Curator
Judith Clark
Designer
Judith Clark with Sam Collins
Exhibition display of diving mannequins with splash material surround

Fabulous Fashion: From Dior’s New Look to Now

Start Date
16 October 2018
End Date
03 March 2019
Venue
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Location
Philadelphia, USA
Curator
Kristina Haugland
Designer
Shohei Shigematsu
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Dior: from Paris to the World

Start Date
19 November 2018
End Date
17 March 2019
Venue
Denver Art Museum
Location
Denver, USA
Curator
Florence Müller
Designer
Shohei Shigematsu
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2016

Catwalk

Start Date
20 February 2016
End Date
22 May 2016
Venue
Rijksmuseum
Location
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Curator
Bianca du Mortier
Designer
Erwin Olaf
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins and imagery

Schiaparelli and Thirties Fashion

Start Date
02 January 2016
End Date
23 October 2016
Venue
Manchester Art Gallery
Location
Manchester, UK
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2012

Tees: Exposing Melbourne’s T-Shirt Culture

Start Date
07 December 2012
End Date
17 February 2013
Venue
National Gallery of Victoria
Location
Melbourne, Australia
Curator
Collaboration between Just Another and T-World
Exhibition display of t-shirts hanging on a rail

Valentino: Master of Couture

Start Date
29 November 2012
End Date
03 March 2013
Venue
Somerset House
Location
London, UK
Curator
Patrick Kinmonth and Antonio Monfreda with fashion author Alistair O'Neill
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins in a tunnel with path through the centre

2020

India: Fashion’s Muse

Start Date
29 February 2020
End Date
25 October 2020
Venue
Phoenix Art Museum
Location
Phoenix, USA
Curator
Helen Jean
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2012

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

Fashioning fashion – European fashions 1700-1915

Start Date
27 April 2012
End Date
29 July 2012
Venue
Deutsches Historisches Museum
Location
Berlin, Germany

Christian Louboutin: 20 Years

Start Date
01 May 2012
End Date
09 July 2012
Venue
The Design Museum
Location
London, UK
Curator
Donna Loveday
Designer
Designed to Win
Exhibition display of footwear

2013

Glamour

Start Date
01 January 2013
End Date
01 December 2013
Venue
The Fashion Museum
Location
Bath, England
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2015

David Adjaye Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection

Start Date
19 June 2015
End Date
14 February 2015
Venue
Cooper Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Design Museum
Location
New York, USA
Curator
David Adjaye

2019

An Enquiring Mind:
Manolo Blahnik

Start Date
10 June 2019
End Date
07 October 2019
Venue
The Wallace Collection
Location
London, UK
Curator
Xavier Bray and Manolo Blahnik
Designer
Nissen Richards Studio
Exhibition display of shoes in glass domes in room hung with paintings

2014

Birds of Paradise: Plumes & Feathers In Fashion

Start Date
20 March 2014
End Date
24 August 2014
Venue
Mode Museum
Location
Antwerp, Belgium
Curator
Karen Van Godtsenhoven
Designer
Scenographer: Bob Verhelst
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2019

Guo Pei: Chinese Art and Couture

Start Date
15 June 2019
End Date
15 September 2019
Venue
Asian Civilisations Museum
Location
Singapore
Curator
Jackie Yoong
Designer
Guo Pei
Exhibition display of mannequin in gold ensemble on a plinth

2014

Birds of Paradise – Plumes and Feathers in Fashion (touring)

Start Date
25 October 2014
End Date
19 April 2015
Venue
Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle
Location
Teesdale, UK
Curator
Joanna Hashagen, Karen Van Godtsenhoven and Wim Mertens
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2019

Back Side / Fashion from Behind (Touring)

Start Date
05 July 2019
End Date
17 November 2019
Venue
Palais Galliera at the Musée Bourdelle
Location
Paris, France
Curator
Alexandre Samson
Designer
Jean-Julien Simonot
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins rear view

2014

BLISS: 19th-Century Wedding Gowns from The Helen Larson Historic Fashion Collection

Start Date
11 February 2014
End Date
05 July 2014
Venue
Museum at Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising
Location
Los Angeles, USA
Curator
Kevin Jones

2013

Head On

Start Date
06 February 2013
End Date
23 February 2013
Venue
Fashion Space Gallery
Location
London, UK
Curator
Leanne Wierzba and Gemma Williams
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins with headwear

2014

Made in Mexico: The Rebozo in Art, Culture & Fashion

Start Date
06 June 2014
End Date
31 August 2014
Venue
Fashion and Textile Museum
Location
London, UK
Exhibition display of dressed mannequin and images

2019

SMUK: Tasty

Start Date
12 October 2019
End Date
30 August 2020
Venue
Modemuseum
Location
Hasselt, Belgium
Curator
Eve Demoen
Designer
MAISON the FAUX
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2013

A Century of Cotton: Selections from The Helen Larson Historic Fashion Collection, 1800–1900

Start Date
12 February 2013
End Date
13 July 2013
Venue
Museum at Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising
Location
Los Angeles, USA
Curator
Kevin Jones and Christina Johnson

Paris Haute Couture

Start Date
02 March 2013
End Date
06 July 2013
Venue
Musée Galliera at l’Hôtel de Ville
Location
Paris, France
Curator
Olivier Saillard and Anne Zazzo
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins in glass cabinets

Gatsby’s Women: 1920s Evening Dress from The Helen Larson Historic Fashion Collection

Start Date
27 June 2013
End Date
19 October 2013
Venue
Museum at Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising
Location
Los Angeles, USA
Curator
Christina Johnson

Zandra Rhodes: Unseen

Start Date
12 July 2013
End Date
31 August 2013
Venue
Fashion and Textile Museum
Location
London, UK
Curator
Dennis Nothdruft
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2014

Brides. Tradition and Fashion in Greece

Start Date
23 January 2014
End Date
25 May 2014
Venue
Benaki Museum
Location
Athens, Greece
Curator
Ioanna Papantoniou

2011

Material World

Start Date
22 April 2011
End Date
06 February 2012
Venue
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Location
Indianapolis, USA

2014

Killer Heels: the Art of the High-heeled Shoe

Start Date
10 September 2014
End Date
01 March 2015
Venue
Brooklyn Museum
Location
New York, USA
Curator
Lisa Small
Exhibition display of shoes in cases

2015

Fleurs: Botanicals in Dress from the Helen Larson Historic Fashion Collection

Start Date
21 July 2015
End Date
19 December 2015
Venue
FIDM
Location
Los Angeles, USA
Curator
Kevin Jones

Standing Tall: The Curious History of Men in Heels

Start Date
08 May 2015
End Date
01 May 2016
Venue
Bata Shoe Museum
Location
Ontario, Canada
Curator
Elizabeth Semmelhack
Exhibition display with shoes on plinths and images

2018

The Romantic Age:
European Fans 1810-1840

Start Date
25 September 2018
End Date
30 December 2018
Venue
The Fan Museum
Location
London, UK
Curator
The Fan Museum
Exhibition display of fans in foreground of dressed mannequin

2008

De Ideale Man (The Ideal Man)

Start Date
26 July 2008
End Date
26 October 2008
Venue
Gemeentemuseum
Location
Den Hague, The Netherlands

The Art of the Embroiderer

Start Date
25 September 2008
End Date
31 December 2009
Venue
Kent State University Museum
Location
Kent, USA
Curator
Anne Bissonnette

2009

Madeleine Vionnet: Puriste de la Mode (Madeleine Vionnet: Fashion Purist)

Start Date
24 June 2009
End Date
31 January 2010
Venue
Les Arts Décoratifs
Location
Paris, France
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins with mirrored background

Easton Pearson

Start Date
22 August 2009
End Date
08 November 2009
Venue
Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland
Location
Brisbane, Australia
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins with lighting

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

2015

Balenciaga, Magicien De La Dentelle (Balenciaga, Magician Of Lace)

Start Date
18 April 2015
End Date
27 September 2014
Venue
The Museum for Lace and Fashion/ Cité Internationale de la Dentelle et de la Mode de Calais
Location
Calais, France
Curator
Catherine Join-Diéterle 

2016

Embroidery on Knits

Start Date
24 September 2016
End Date
15 January 2017
Venue
Textil Museet
Location
Boras, Sweden

2011

Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delauney

Start Date
18 March 2011
End Date
05 June 2011
Venue
Cooper Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Design Museum
Location
New York, USA
Exhibition display of glass cases containing textiles and garments

2006

Fine and Fashionable Lace: Lace from the Blackborne Collection

Start Date
09 September 2006
End Date
29 April 2007
Venue
Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle
Location
Teesdale, UK

2017

Vegetabilia

Start Date
01 November 2017
End Date
21 January 2018
Venue
Costume History Museum
Location
Buenos Aires, Argentina

2011

The Peacock Male: Exuberance and Extremes in Masculine Dress

Start Date
22 January 2011
End Date
18 September 2011
Venue
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Location
Philadelphia, USA
Curator
Kristina Haugland

2017

All Creatures Great and Small

Start Date
23 May 2017
End Date
16 September 2017
Venue
The Fan Museum
Location
London, UK

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

Don’t Forget to Remember: Linda Jackson and David McDiarmid

Start Date
17 October 2019
End Date
02 April 2020
Venue
Powerhouse Museum
Location
Sydney, Australia
Curator
Dr Sally Gray, Roger Leong
Designer
Malcolm McKernan
gallery view of pink t shirt with a backdrop of abstract images on the wall

2010

Brides Revisited: An Exhibition of Wedding Gowns

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

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