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2024

Barbie®: The Exhibition

Start Date 05 July 2024
End Date 23 February 2024
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

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

Start Date May 30 2024
End Date 25 August 2024
Venue Frist Art Museum
Location Nashville, Tennessee USA
Curator Jessica Baran 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.

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.

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.

‘La Mode en mouvement’ (‘Fashion in Motion’).

Start Date 16 June 2023
End Date 15 March 2024
Venue Palais Galliera
Location Paris,France
Curator Miren Arzalluz and Marie-Laure Gutton
The Palais Galliera traces the history of fashion from the 18th century to the present. Male and female grey 18th century clothes.

2024

Vivienne Westwood: The Personal Collection

Start Date 14 June 2024
End Date 24 June 2024
Venue Christie's
Location London,UK
Curator Andreas Kronthaler
A display of colourful mannequins wearing Vivienne Westwood garments in hues of orange, pink, blue and red.

MODE * CHAPEAU: Two Private Collections Revealed

Start Date 09 May 2024
End Date 29 September 2024
Venue Centraal Museum
Location Utrecht,Netherlands
Curator Ninke Bloemberg
Designer Tatyana van Walsum
Display of female mannequins wearing historical outfits from different eras. Hues of blue, white, grey, purple and red.

2023

Mode et Sport, D’un Podium a À L’autre (Fashion & Sport, from one podium to another)

Start Date 20 September 2023
End Date 07 April 2024
Venue Musée des Arts Décoratifs
Location Paris,France
Curator Sophie Lemahieu
Designer BGC Studio

2024

Icons of British Fashion

Start Date 23 March 2024
End Date 30 June 2024
Venue Blenheim Palace
Location Oxfordshire,UK
Curator Kate Ballenger
A collection of Vivienne Westwood dresses on display. White wedding dresses , brown and red dresses.

PUNK: Rage & Revolution

Start Date 16 September 2023
End Date 03 March 2024
Venue Northampton Museum and Art Gallery
Location Northampton,UK
Curator Jill Birrell
Designer Vertigo Creative, Leicester
installation view of punk exhibition

We make our own histories

Start Date 28 February 2024
End Date 30 June 2024
Venue National Museum of Ireland
Location Dublin,Ireland
Curator Maolíosa Boyle and Dr Jonathan Cummins.
A Dress for Ramlah (left green) and A Dress for Akunma (right brown), on display in we make our own histories

2018

Ireland’s Fashion Radicals

Start Date 20 January 2018
End Date 25 March 2018
Venue The Little Museum of Dublin
Location Dublin,Ireland
Curator Robert O’Byrne
3 mannequins on display in bold colours of blue, red and green.

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.

2023

Colour Revolution

Start Date 21 September 2023
End Date 18 February 2024
Venue Ashmolean Museum
Location Oxford,England
Curator Matthew Winterbottom and Prof Charlotte Ribeyrol
A Decadent Young Woman by Ramon Casas (1899) Photograph: Museu do Montserrat, Barcelona. Women is on a green sofa wearing a dark blue dress.

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.

Fashioned by Sargent

Start Date 08 October 2023
End Date 15 January 2024
Venue Museum of Fine Arts,Boston
Location Boston,USA
Curator Erica E.Hirshler
“Fashioned by Sargent” installation view. Far left, ‘‘Beetle Wing Dress’’ for Lady Macbeth. Sargent’s painting of the actress Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, in the shimmering gown (which boasts actual beetle wing cases affixed to its surface), hangs nearby. The dress was created by Alice Laura Comyns-Carr.Credit: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Anything Goes! Fashion in the 1920’s

Start Date 07 October 2023
End Date April 2024
Venue Ulster Museum
Location Belfast, Northern Ireland
Curator Charlotte McReynolds
1920s fashion is on display with a yellow background.

2024

Playing by the rules: Childhood, dress and imagination

Start Date 10 February 2024
End Date 03 November 2024
Venue Killerton House
Location Devon,England
Curator Shelley Tobin
Image of little girl playing. Mannequins dressed in floral dresses children's wear.

2023

The Costumes of Poor Things Exhibition

Start Date 11 December 2023
End Date 26 January 2024
Venue Barbican Centre
Location London, UK
Curator Holly Waddington
Designer Holly Waddington
Mannequins of the costumes on display.

2024

The New Village: Ten Years of New York Fashion

Start Date 22 January 2024
End Date 16 March 2024
Venue Pratt Manhattan Gallery
Location New York, USA
Curator Jennifer Minniti, Chair, Fashion, and Matthew Linde, Ph.D
Designer David Frisco, Director
Assistant creative director Jana Flynn
Senior graphic designer Robert McConnell
Print and digital production manager Chris Keating
Senior editorial manager Brandhi Williamson
Associate director of project management Stephanie Greenberg
Exhibition display of wooden wardrobe with clothes hanging.

2022

SYNERGY: Art into Fashion

Start Date 14 April 2022
End Date 26 August 2022
Venue A. G. Leventis Gallery
Location Nicosia, Cyprus
Curator Filep Motwary
exhibition mannequins displayed on crates next to art

2024

Untying the Bow

Start Date 01 March 2024
End Date 24 March 2024
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, U.S.A

Statement Sleeves

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

2015

Paupers, Petticoats and Pinafores

Start Date 14 February 2015
End Date 01 November 2015
Venue The Workhouse
Location Southwell, Nottinghamshire, UK

2020

Studio 54: Night Magic

Start Date 13 March 2020
End Date 08 November 2020
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Curator Matthew Yokobosky
Designer Matthew Yokobosky
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins on a raised plinth with neon lighting

2010

Socks: Between You and Your Shoes

Start Date 7 April 2010
End Date April 2011
Venue Bata Shoe Museum
Location Toronto, Canada
Curator Elizabeth Semmelhack

2018

You May Kiss the Bride

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

2020

That ‘70s Exhibit

Start Date 14 January 2020
End Date 22 March 2020
Venue The Esse Purse Museum
Location Arkansas, USA
Curator Emily Hadland
display of exhibition mannequins

2016

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

2010

La Senyora de les Muntanyes (The Lady of the Mountains)

Start Date 13 May 2010
End Date 18 May 2010
Venue Museu de Lleida
Location Lleida, Spain

2015

Crinolines & Cie THE BOURGEOISIE ON DISPLAY (1850- 1890)

Start Date 08 May 2015
End Date 10 April 2016
Venue Musée du Costume et de la dentelle
Location Brussels, Belgium

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

2021

A History of Fashion. Collecting & Exhibiting

Start Date 02 October 2021
End Date 26 June 2022
Venue Palais Galliera
Location Paris, France
Curator Miren Arzalluz and Marie-Laure Gutton
Designer Ciel Architects

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

Inside the Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk

Start Date 27 August 2020
End Date 25 October 2020
Venue V&A Museum
Location London, UK
Curator Anna Jackson and Josephine Rout
Title to exhibition and three kimonos on display

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

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

2018

Femmes Fatales: Strong Women In Fashion

Start Date 17 November 2018
End Date 24 March 2019
Venue Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Location Netherlands
Curator Madelief Hohé
Graphic Design ARK
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2023

1997 Fashion Big Bang

Start Date 07 March 2023
End Date 16 July 2023
Venue Palais Galliera
Location Paris, France
Curator Alexandre Samson
A number of white mannequins stand on monochrome plinths. In the centre is a black runway with '1997' in purple LED lights.

2017

The Vulgar: Fashion Redefined (touring)

Start Date 03 March 2017
End Date 25 June 2017
Venue The Winterpalais, Belvedere
Location Vienna, Austria
Curator Adam Phillips and Judith Clark
Designer Judith Clark
Production Designer Sam Collins
Two panniered skirts are displayed in a brown wooden frame in a gilt gold room. Three embroidered menswear outfits are displayed in the background.

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.

2017

The Vulgar: Fashion Redefined (touring)

Start Date 30 September 2017
End Date 12 January 2018
Venue ModeMuseum
Location Hasselt, Belgium
Curator Adam Phillips and Judith Clark
Designer Judith Clark
Production Designer Sam Collins
Two dresses with abstract puritan collars stand on white mannequins against a dark backdrop.

2016

Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion

Start Date 28 November 2016
End Date 05 February 2017
Venue Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location New York, USA

2021

Beautiful People: The Boutique in 1960s

Start Date 01 October 2021
End Date 13 March 2022
Venue Fashion and Textile Museum
Location London, UK
Display of colourful outfits on mannequins and busts. A BIBA sign han

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

1987

Russian Style 1700-1920: Court and Country Dress from the Heritage

Start Date 29 January 1987
End Date 26 April 1987
Venue Barbican Art Gallery
Location London, UK
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

2014

Undressed: 350 Years of Fashion in Underwear (touring)

Start Date 19 July 2014
End Date 26 October 2014
Venue Bendigo Art Gallery
Location Bendigo, Australia
Curator Edwina Ehrmann

2022

Dandy Style: 250 Years of Men’s Fashion

Start Date 07 October 2022
End Date 01 May 2023
Venue Manchester Art Gallery
Location Manchester, UK
Curator Miles Lambert and Shaun Cole
Exhibition display of mannequins in patterned menswear with historic portrait in the background

2021

Design and Healing: Creative responses to epidemics

Start Date 10 December 2021
End Date 20 February 2023
Venue Cooper Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Design Museum
Location New York, USA
Curator MASS Design Group and Cooper Hewitt
Exhibition shot of mannequin in hospital scrubs and masc with several other face-masked mannequin heads in a row, in front of a screen with women's masked face.

2022

Powerful Patterns

Start Date 19 June 2022
End Date 31 December 2025
Venue Design Museum
Location Copenhagen, Denmark

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

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

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

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

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

1989

Revolution in Fashion 1715–1815

Start Date 04 April 1989
End Date 28 May 1989
Venue KCI at the National Museum of Modern Art
Location Tokyo, Japan

2014

The Politics of Fashion and The Fashion of Politics

Start Date 01 September 2014
End Date 01 December 2014
Venue Fashion History Museum
Location Ontario, Canada
Curator The Design X-Change
exhibition display of mannequins

2019

Dialogues: 130 Years of Lanvin

Start Date 06 December 2019
End Date 09 February 2020
Venue Fosun Foundation
Location Shanghai, China
Curator Judith Clark
Designer Judith Clark
Dressed mannequins with skull cap wigs

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

2019

Victoria 200

Start Date 13 March 2019
End Date 30 June 2019
Venue Fashion History Museum
Location Ontario, Canada

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

2016

Wild and Rare: Fashion and Endangered Species

Start Date 06 October 2016
End Date 18 December 2016
Venue Fashion History Museum
Location Ontario, Canada
Curator Lisa Cox
various garments on display in a vitrine

Wedding Dresses: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Start Date 08 July 2016
End Date 02 October 2016
Venue San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
Location California, USA
Curator Kate Eilertsen
exhibition display of mannequins

2015

Waist Management

Start Date 11 May 2015
End Date 29 August 2015
Venue Elgin County Museum
Location Ontario, Canada
Curator Fashion History Museum
two corset ensembles on display

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

2018

Titanic Dress

Start Date 05 April 2018
End Date 05 February 2019
Venue Pigeon Forge
Location Tennessee, USA
Curator Fashion History Museum
exhibition display of mannequins

2017

Then, Now, Next: Canada 150 Fashion Retrospective

Start Date 13 September 2017
End Date 27 October 2017
Venue Yorkville Village
Location Ontario, Canada
Curator Len D. Henry and The Fashion History Museum
exhibition display of mannequins

2016

The McFee Aquisition

Start Date 30 September 2016
End Date 02 October 2016
Venue Fashion History Museum
Location Ontario, Canada
exhibition display of mannequins

2017

The House of Dior: 1947-1962

Start Date 15 March 2017
End Date 09 July 2017
Venue Fashion History Museum
Location Ontario, Canada
exhibition display of mannequins

2009

Talkin’ Bout My Generation: How Youth Revolutionised and Music Changed The World

Start Date 01 June 2009
End Date 30 September 2009
Venue Waterloo Region Children's Museum
Location Ontario, Canada
Curator Fashion History Museum
exhibition display of mannequins

2014

Streetstyle

Start Date 27 May 2014
End Date 20 January 2015
Venue Fashion History Museum
Location Ontario, Canada
exhibition display of mannequins

1995

Slice of Schiaparelli: Surrealism in Fashion from the Brooklyn Museum

Start Date 20 October 1995
End Date 24 March 1996
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, USA
Curator Patricia Mears

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

1975

Of Men Only

Start Date 18 September 1975
End Date 29 August 1976
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, USA
Curator Elizabeth Ann Coleman
Designer Daniel Weidmann
installation of hats and mannequins

1980

Of Corsets

Start Date 01 October 1980
End Date 31 July 1982
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, USA

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

1982

Genius of Charles James

Start Date 16 October 1982
End Date 16 January 1983 (Extended to 13 February 1983)
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, USA
Curator Elizabeth Ann Coleman
Charles James Clover Leaf dress on a mannequin

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

2001

Constructivistisch drieluik (Constructivist triptych)

Start Date 25 February 1989
End Date 26 March 1989
Venue Centraal Museum
Location Utrecht, The Netherlands
exhibition display of mannequins

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

2003

Aico Dinkla: What you see I is wearing you can’t get

Start Date 30 August 2003
End Date 30 November 2003
Venue Centraal Museum
Location Utrecht, The Netherlands
Curator Aico Dinkla
exhibition display of mannequins

1991

Aanwinstenopstelling Martin Margiela (Acquisition statement Martin Margiela)

Start Date 07 October 1991
End Date 13 August 1992
Venue Centraal Museum
Location Utrecht, The Netherlands

2022

Dress Code – Fashion Stories from The Box

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

2014

The Lady and The Vamp: Women’s Wardrobes and World War One

Start Date 21 May 2014
End Date 15 February 2015
Venue Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum
Location Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

2015

Tailored: A very British Fashion

Start Date 07 July 2015
End Date 03 January 2016
Venue Leeds City Museum
Location Leeds, UK

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

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

2010

Two Hundred Years of the Flower Motif in Fashion

Start Date 2010
End Date 2010
Venue Totnes Fashion and Textiles Museum
Location Totnes, Devon, UK

2021

Belonging: Fashion & A Sense of Place

Start Date 18 September 2021
End Date 05 March 2022
Venue Bankfield Museum
Location Halifax, UK
Curator Janie Tweddle and Nicola Knight
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2016

High Society: The Portraits of Franz X. Winterhalter

Start Date 16 April 2016
End Date 14 August 2016
Venue Museum of Fine Arts
Location Houston, Texas, USA
Curator Helga Aurisch
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins with portraits in the background

2019

PURSEonality: A Stylish Handbag History

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

2010

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