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2024

Africa Fashion’s Diaspora

Start Date 18 September 2024
End Date 29 December 2024
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA
Curator Elizabeth Way

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

REBEL: 30 Years of London Fashion

Start Date 16 September 2023
End Date 11 February 2024
Venue Design Museum
Location London, UK
Curator Sarah Mower MBE and Rebecca Lewin
Three rows of outfits are hung on tailor's dummies from a high clothing rail.

Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners Shaped Global Style

Start Date 13 October 2023
End Date 14 April 2024
Venue Museum of London Docklands
Location London, UK
Curator Dr Lucie Whitmore

2024

Cross-Pollination: ¡Moda Hoy!

Start Date 03 April 2024
End Date 21 April 2024
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA

2021

P.LACE.S – Looking through Antwerp Lace

Start Date 25 September 2021
End Date 09 January 2022
Venue MoMU
Location Antwerp, Belgium
Curator Kaat Debo, Wim Mertens, Romy Cockx
Designer Ania Martchenko
Research and concept Frieda Sorber
Gallery view showing three lace dresses displayed alongside boxes of 2D lace material; a doll and graphics.

2022

Fashion as Encounters

Start Date 03 June 2022
End Date 10 July 2022
Venue State of Fashion Biennale
Location Arnhem, Netherlands
Curator NOT____ENOUGH Collective
Four mannequins stand in front of pasted posted, each saying 'Cholita Chic' and showing an illustration of either a smiling central American woman smiling, or a two-faced head.

2023

Africa Fashion (touring)

Start Date 23 June 2023
End Date 22 October 2023
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, U.S.A
Curator Christine Chechinska and Elisabeth Murray
Organisers Ernestine White-Mifetu, Annissa Malvoisin, Catherine Futter, Matthew Yokobosky and Rhea Stark

Fashion as Encounters

In response

Togethering: A Manifesto for Collective Fashion Curating

Four mannequins stand in front of pasted posted, each saying 'Cholita Chic' and showing an illustration of either a smiling central American woman smiling, or a two-faced head.

2015

Ya Hafeth Ya Ameen

Start Date 18 November 2015
End Date 28 February 2017
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

2023

Guo Pei: Fashion, Art, Fantasy 郭培 ：时装之幻梦

Start Date 09 December 2023
End Date 05 May 2024
Venue Auckland Art Gallery
Location Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand

2017

Couture Korea: From Far East to West Coast

Start Date 03 November 2017
End Date 04 February 2018
Venue Arumjigi Culture Keepers Foundation, in collaboration with Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
Location Seoul, Korea
Curator Hyonjeong Kim Han

2023

Textile Masters to the World: the Global Desire for Indian Cloth

Start Date 24 March 2023
End Date 24 January 2025
Venue Asian Civilisations Museum
Location Singapore
Gallery view showing dresses and textile samples.

Baloji Augurism

Start Date 21 October 2023
End Date 16 June 2024
Venue MoMu Fashion Museum
Location Antwerp, Belgium
Curator Baloji and Elisa de Wyngaert
Designer Baloji, Eve Martin
Project manager Rossana Miele
Production Julie Motoi, Marie Vandecasteele
Graphic design Vrints-Kolsteren
Set designer assistants Emilie Nelis-Culot, Lilie Francois, Nico Servais
A glass display case stands in the centre of a gallery, showing a feathered mask, dress, grass and flowers.

2018

Italiana: Italy through the lens of Fashion. 1971-2001

Start Date 02 February 2018
End Date 05 June 2018
Venue Palazzo Reale
Location Milan, Italy
Curator Maria Luisa Frisa and Stefano Tonchi
Designer Selldorf Architects

2002

Berliner Chic: the 60s

Start Date 07 February 2002
End Date 14 April 2002
Venue Decorative Arts Museum (Kunstgewerbemuseum)
Location Berlin, Germany

1987

The New Dressing: Japanese Fashion in the 80s

Start Date 21 November 1987
End Date 14 February 1988
Venue National Gallery of Australia
Location Kamberri/Canberra, Australia

1986

Plastic, Rubber and Leather: Alternative Dress and Decoration

Start Date 22 March 1986
End Date 02 November 1986
Venue National Gallery of Australia
Location Kamberri/Canberra, Australia

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

2015

Ebony G. Patterson: Dead Treez

Start Date 10 November 2015
End Date 03 April 2016
Venue Museum of Arts and Design
Location New York
Curator Karen Patterson
Installation View of Ebony G. Patterson: Dead Treez at the Museum of Arts and Design

2021

The Endless Garment

Start Date 19 December 2021
End Date 05 April 2022
Venue X Museum
Location Beijing, China
Curator Jeppe Ugelvig and Poppy Dongxue Wu
Blue trousers lie draped on a wooden chest of drawers, underneath half an oil painting which has presumably been cut in half. A grandfather clock stands to the right.

The Endless Garment: Research Station

Start Date 14 March 2021
End Date 30 May 2021
Venue X Museum
Location Beijing, China
Curator Jeppe Ugelvig and Poppy Dongxue Wu
A group of mannequins on display., including one wearing an elongated dress and another wearing a blue inflated dress.

2022

Forever Valentino

Start Date 28 October 2022
End Date 01 April 2022
Venue M7
Location Doha, Qatar
Curator Pierpaolo Piccioli, Massimiliano Gioni and Alexander Fury
Gallery view showing a projection of a skylight. Underneath is a large, grey replica of a marble face. Surrounding it is a group of red Valentino dresses, worn on red mannequins.

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

2023

India in Fashion

Start Date 02 April 2023
End Date 04 June 2023
Venue Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre
Location Mumbai, India
Curator Hamish Bowles
Designer Patrick Kinmonth and Rooshad Shroff

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

2021

Global Wardrobe

Start Date 09 October 2021
End Date 16 January 2022
Venue Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Location The Hague, Netherlands
Curator Madelief Hohé

2018

Redressing Pleasure

Start Date March 2018
End Date December 2022
Venue Museum of London
Location London, England
Curator Timothy Long, Danielle Thom

2007

Central Asian Ikats from the Rau Collection

Start Date 05 November 2007
End Date 30 March 2008
Venue V&A
Location London, England

2009

Dressed to Rule: Imperial Robes of China

Start Date 17 April 2009
End Date 06 September 2009
Venue National Gallery of Victoria
Location Melbourne, Australia

Together Alone: Australian and New Zealand Fashion

Start Date 30 September 2009
End Date 18 April 2010
Venue National Gallery of Victoria
Location Melbourne, Australia

2003

Treasures of Palestine

Start Date 17 October 2003
End Date 26 January 2004
Venue Powerhouse Museum
Location Sydney, Australia

Great Expectations: New British Design Stories

Start Date 07 August 2003
End Date 01 February 2004
Venue Powerhouse Museum
Location Sydney, Australia
Designer Casson Mann
A white-lit table with black frame showcase various exhibits including a bike an Mac computer at the front of the image. The table is surrounded by grey and brown angled chairs.

2004

Beirut to Baghdad: Communities, Collecting and Culture

Start Date 17 June 2004
End Date 20 February 2005
Venue Powerhouse Museum
Location Sydney, Australia

2021

Pagne Africain: a pan-African fabric exhibition by Black History Month Belgium

Start Date 02 March 2021
End Date 25 April 2021
Venue ModeMuseum
Location Hasselt, Belgium
Exhibition view of gallery showing dresses with various African cloths and prints.

2017

Across Japan

Start Date 04 March 2017
End Date 03 September 2017
Venue ModeMuseum
Location Hasselt, Belgium
Curator Karolien De Clippel
A pink dress with a matching draped cape and fascinator stands next to a 3D printed honeycomb-patterned dress and a black dress in front a black framed structure.

2023

Ashish: Fall in Love and Be More Tender

Start Date 01 April 2023
End Date 10 September 2023
Venue William Morris Gallery
Location London, U.K.
Curator Roisin Inglesby and Joe Scotland
Five mannequins stand and sit in various poses in colourful clothes.

2022

Asian Americans in New York Fashion: Design, Labor, Innovation

Start Date 02 March 2022
End Date 27 March 2022
Venue Museum at FIT
Location New York City, U.S.A

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

2021

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

2019

Weavers of the Clouds: Textile Arts of Peru

Start Date 21 June 2019
End Date 08 September 2019
Venue Fashion and Textile Museum
Location London, U.K.
Curator Claudia Trosso, supported by Martin Morales
Six Peruvian outfits displayed in pairs on mannequins on white plinths against sheer grey material

2016

Social Fabric: African Textiles Today (touring)

Start Date 20 February 2016
End Date 29 May 2016
Venue William Morris Gallery
Location London, U.K.

2020

Kimono: Fashioning Identities

Start Date 30 June 2020
End Date 23 August 2020
Venue Tokyo National Museum
Location Tokyo, Japan
Several pale kimonos hung on two walls. In between the walls is a yellow, blue and red kimono on display.

2022

Africa Fashion

Start Date 02 July 2022
End Date 16 April 2023
Venue V&A Museum
Location London, UK
Curator Christine Chechinska and Elisabeth Murray
Opening section to Africa Fashion exhibition

2021

Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams (Touring)

Start Date 10 September 2021
End Date 20 February 2022
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, U.S.A
Curator Florence Müller and Matthew Yokobosky
Designer Nathalie Crinière
Display exhibiting many dresses in a silver gallery

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

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

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

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

2019

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

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

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

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

1980

Peasant Prints: Textiles from Czechoslovakia & Russia

Start Date 30 January 1980
End Date 31 August 1980
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, USA
single mannequin in an ensemble

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

1985

New Guinea Feather Headdresses

Start Date 01 January 1985
End Date unknown
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, USA
objects displayed on a wall installation

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

2016

Disguise: Masks and Global African Art

Start Date 26 April 2016
End Date 18 September 2016
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, USA
Curator Kevin Dumouchelle
exhibition display of mannequins

2011

Traditional Jewellery and Dress From The Balkans

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

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

The costume of “China Poblana”

Start Date 2010
End Date 2010
Venue Musee de la Vallee
Location Moulins, France

2021

People Living in the Mountains

Start Date 30 January 2021
End Date 28 March 2021
Venue Kobe Fashion Museum
Location Kobe, Japan
Exhibition display of dressed mannequin

2015

Made Up — The Liverpool Look

Start Date 16 October 2015
End Date 26 February 2016
Venue Lady Lever Art Gallery
Location Liverpool, UK

2020

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

Start Date 10 September 2020
End Date 2020
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

2018

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

2014

India: Jewels that Enchanted the World

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

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

2010

Exotismo/Exoticism

Start Date December 2010
End Date December 2012
Venue El Museo de la Historia del Traje
Location Buenos Aires, Argentina

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

2021

Splendid Decade: Fashion China 2011-2020

Start Date January 2021
End Date March 2021
Venue China National Silk Museum
Location Hangzhou, China
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2015

Le Génie De La Fabrique (The Engineering Of The Factory)

Start Date 22 May 2015
End Date 31 December 2018
Venue Musée des Tissus de Lyon
Location Lyon, France
Curator Maximilien Durand and Claire Berthommier

Transformation: one man’s cross-dressing wardrobe

Start Date 25 October 2015
End Date 01 February 2017
Venue Walker Art Gallery
Location Liverpool, UK
Curator Pauline Rushton
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

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

2010

Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail 1700–1915

Start Date 02 October 2010
End Date 27 March 2011
Venue Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Location Los Angeles, USA
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2016

Maticevski: Dark Wonderland

Start Date 13 August 2016
End Date 15 January 2017
Venue Bendigo Art Gallery
Location Bendigo, Australia
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

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

2011

Global Threads: Asian Textiles and Fashion Today

Start Date 14 May 2011
End Date 30 June 2012
Venue Harris Museum and Art Gallery
Location Preston, UK

2012

Wool Re-fashioned: A Collaboration Between The Yorkshire Fashion Archive And The Woolmark Company

Start Date 07 September 2012
End Date 02 January 2013
Venue Yorkshire Fashion Archive, Leeds University
Location Leeds, UK

Fashion in Brazil: Contemporary and Past (Moda no Brasil: criadores contemporâneos e memória)

Start Date 12 August 2012
End Date 30 September 2012
Venue Museu de Arte Brasileira (MAB-FAAP)
Location São Paulo, Brazil
Curator José Luis Hernandéz Alfonso and Denise Pollini
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

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

2018

Miao Costumes in Guizhou

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

2019

Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams (Touring)

Start Date 02 February 2019
End Date 01 September 2019
Venue V&A Museum
Location London, UK
Curator Oriole Cullen
Designer Nathalie Crinière
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2013

Style in Silk: Tradition and Innovation in Chinese Fashion

Start Date January 2013
End Date April 2013
Venue White-Meyer House, Meridian International Center
Location Washington DC, USA

2020

Far-reaching Hunan Grace: Costumes of the Song and the Yuan in Hunan Museum

Start Date 15 May 2020
End Date 02 August 2020
Venue China National Silk Museum
Location Hangzhou, China

2014

The Glamour of Italian Fashion 1945–2014

Start Date 05 April 2014
End Date 27 November 2014
Venue V&A
Location London, UK
Curator Sonnet Stanfill
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2012

Kitty and the Bulldog: Lolita fashion and the influence of Britain

Start Date 23 April 2012
End Date 24 February 2013
Venue V&A
Location London, UK
Curator Rupert Faulkner and Pauline Le Moigne
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2002

Peter Chang, IT’S ONLY PLASTIC… Jewellery Objects Sculpture

Start Date 10 October 2002
End Date 05 January 2003
Venue Museum of Decorative Arts (Kunstgewerbemuseum)
Location Berlin, Germany

2018

Mountains and Water: Global Qipao Invitational Exhibition

Start Date September 2018
End Date October 2018
Venue China National Silk Museum
Location Hangzhou, China
Curator Zhao Feng
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Norell: Dean of American Fashion

Start Date 09 February 2018
End Date 14 April 2018
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA
Curator Patricia Mears and Jeffrey Banks
Designer Kimberly Ackert, Ackert Architecture
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2017

Expedition: Fashion from the Extreme

Start Date 15 September 2017
End Date 06 January 2018
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA
Curator Patricia Mears
Designer Kimberly Ackert, Ackert Architecture

2013

Cheongsam: Points

Start Date February 2013
End Date March 2013
Venue China National Silk Museum
Location Hangzhou, China
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

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

Global Fashion Capitals

Start Date 02 June 2015
End Date 14 November 2015
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA
Curator Ariele Elia and Elizabeth Way

2018

Good design Awards 2018: Fashion Revolution Australia

Start Date 22 September 2018
End Date 16 March 2019
Venue Powerhouse Museum
Location Sydney, Australia
Curator Keinton Butler
Designer Katherine Bond,  Filip Bartkowiak
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2019

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 Sally Gray, Roger Leong
Designer Malcolm McKernan