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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.

2024

The Indian Army at the Palace

Start Date 15 September 2023
End Date 29 September 2024
Venue Kensington Palace
Location London, UK
Curator Rav Singh and Dr Tej Pal Singh Ralmill
Exhibition Lead Zakira Begum
Red soldier's uniform displayed on a mannequin

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

2023

Gucci Cosmos

Start Date 11 October 2023
End Date 31 December 2023
Venue 180 Studios
Location London, UK
Curator Maria Luisa Frisa
Designer Es Devlin
Exhibition display of garments hung in white arched display space

Mood of the moment: Gaby Aghion and the house of Chloé

Start Date 13 October 2023
End Date 18 February 2024
Venue The Jewish Museum
Location New York, USA
Curator Choghakate Kazarian and Kristina Parsons
Designer Elliot Barnes

2024

Untold Lives: A Palace at Work

Start Date 14 March 2024
End Date 27 October 2024
Venue Kensington Palace
Location London, UK
Curator Dr Mishka Sinha
Mannequin of a royal dress in lilac

2023

Gathering

Start Date 29 March 2023
End Date 31 July 2024
Venue Textile Museum of Canada
Location Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Curator Roxane Shaughnessy
Senior Manager Leah Sanchez
Curatorial Advisor Devyani Saltzman
Display of shoes and accessories

2015

Golden Threads of Bethlehem

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

2022

LV Dream

Start Date 15 December 2022
End Date 15 November 2023
Venue quai de la Mégisserie
Location Paris, France

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

2015

Esprit Dior

Start Date 20 June 2015
End Date 25 August 2015
Venue Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP)
Location Seoul, Korea
Curator Florence Muller

2000

Captions

Start Date 07 November 2000
End Date 08 December 2000
Venue Judith Clark Costume
Location London, England
Curator Judith Clark
Designer Judith Clark

1999

Pre–Inca Feather Dress 500–1200AD

Start Date 24 November 1999
End Date 20 January 2000
Venue Judith Clark Costume
Location London, England
Curator Judith Clark
Designer Judith Clark

2019

Vera Paints a Scarf: The Art and Design of Vera Neumann

Start Date 08 August 2019
End Date 26 January 2020
Venue Museum of Arts and Design
Location New York, U.S.A
Curator Elissa Auther
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

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.

2020

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 (touring)

Start Date 22 November 2022
End Date 28 May 2023
Venue Musée du quai Branly
Location Paris, France
Curator Anna Jackson and Josephine Rout
Designer SKY Architects

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

2003

Treasures of Palestine

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

2007

Golden Threads & My Chinatown

Start Date 14 March 2003
End Date 12 October 2003
Venue Powerhouse Museum
Location Sydney, Australia
Curator Jennifer Kwok

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2010

The costume of “China Poblana”

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

2019

Treasures from the Palace Museum: The Flourishing of China in the 18th Century

Start Date 15 March 2019
End Date 30 May 2019
Venue Moscow Kremlin Museums
Location Moscow, Russia
Exhibition display of paintings and dress

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

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

Endyesthai (To Dress)

Start Date 24 March 2010
End Date 23 May 2010
Venue Benaki Museum
Location Athens, Greece

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

2016

Elegance and Splendour of Art Deco

Start Date 30 September 2016
End Date 11 January 2017
Venue Moscow Kremlin Museums
Location Moscow, Russia
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2013

Wearing Our Identity: The First Peoples Collection

Start Date 02 May 2013
Venue McCord Museum of Canadian History
Location Québec, Canada
Curator Guislaine Lemay
Designer Daniel Castonguay
Exhibition display with a headdress in foreground

2019

Seattle Style: Fashion/Function

Start Date 04 May 2019
End Date 14 October 2019
Venue Museum of History & Industry
Location Seattle, USA
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2020

Levi Strauss: A History of American Style

Start Date 13 February 2020
End Date 08 August 2020
Venue The Contemporary Jewish Museum
Location San Fransisco, California, USA
Curator Justin Limoges and Heidi Rabben
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2021

Voices of Fashion: Black Couture, Beauty and Styles

Start Date 05 June 2021
End Date 15 August 2021
Venue Centraal Museum
Location Utrecht, The Netherlands
Curator Janice Deul
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins in black scaffolding structure

2019

Cross Colours: Black Fashion in the 20th Century

Start Date 25 September 2019
End Date 23 August 2020
Venue California African American Museum
Location Los Angeles, USA
Curator Tyree Boyd-Pates and Taylor Bythewood-Porter
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

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

2013

Last Man Standing: Springline Shoe Lasts

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

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

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

2020

RENOVATION: Kimono & Sustainability (きもの － リノベーション)

Start Date 05 August 2020
End Date 07 September 2020
Venue The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location New York, USA
Curator John T. Carpenter and Monika Bincsik

2015

Shifting Patterns: Pacific Barkcloth Clothing

Start Date 05 February 2015
End Date 06 December 2015
Venue British Museum
Location London, UK

2013

Rich And Rare: A People’s History Of West Of England Cloth

Start Date 09 February 2013
End Date 2014
Venue Trowbridge Museum
Location Trowbridge, UK

2014

Qipao Glamour

Start Date May 2014
End Date June 2014
Venue Nanjing Museum
Location Nanjing, China
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins seated on sofa

 Making Design 

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

2015

Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty (V&A)

Start Date 14 March 2015
End Date 02 August 2015
Venue V&A
Location London, UK
Curator Claire Wilcox
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins in a cabinet of curosity

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

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

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

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

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

2009

Ties with tradition: Macedonian apron designs

Start Date 31 July 2009 
End Date 22 November 2009 
Venue Powerhouse Museum
Location Sydney, Australia
Curator Lindie Ward
Designer Kirsten Franklin 

2007

Smart works: Design and the handmade

Start Date 29 March 2007
End Date 04 November 2007
Venue Powerhouse Museum
Location Sydney, Australia
Curator Grace Cochrane
Designer Claudia Brueheim 
Graphic designer Danny Jacobsen 

Fashion from Fleece: 200 Years of Australian Wool in Fashion

Start Date 25 July 2007
End Date 27 August 2007
Venue Powerhouse Museum
Location Sydney, Australia
Curator Jane de Teliga, Sandra McEwan, Glynis Jones, PHM
Designer Susan Freeman, Freeman Ryan Design
Graphic design: Chris Dent, Creative Justice
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2015

The Fabric of India

Start Date 03 October 2015
End Date 10 January 2016
Venue Victoria and Albert Museum
Location London, UK
Curator Rosemary Crill and Divia Patel

2020

African Apparel Threaded Transformations across the 20th Century

Start Date 18 January 2020
End Date 06 September 2020
Venue Cornell Fine Arts Museum
Location Winter Park, Florida, USA
Curator MacKenzie Moon Ryan

2019

Traditional Korean Costumes and Textiles

Start Date 29 March 2019
End Date 09 June 2019
Venue China National Silk Museum
Location Hangzhou, China
Curator Zhao Feng

2013

The Queen’s Coronation 1953

Start Date 27 July 2013
End Date 29 September 2013
Venue Buckingham Palace
Location London, UK
Curator Caroline de Guitaut

2009

Emilia Stoppani, il guardaroba di una sposa comasca (the wardrobe of a Como bride)

Start Date 15 May 2009
Venue Fondazione Antonio Ratti
Location Como, Italy
Curator Margherita Rosina and Francina Chiara

2019

Celebration: Global Qipao Invitational Exhibition

Start Date 29 September 2019
End Date 01 November 2019
Venue China National Silk Museum
Location Hangzhou, China
Curator Zhao Feng

2014

Kimono: A modern history

Start Date 27 September 2014
End Date 19 January 2015
Venue The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location New York, USA
Curator John T. Carpenter and Monika Bincsik

2019

Connecting Afro Futures. Fashion x Hair x Design

Start Date 24 August 2019
End Date 01 December 2019
Venue Decorative Arts Museum (Kunstgewerbemuseum)
Location Berlin, Germany
Curator Claudia Banz, Cornelia Lund and Beatrace Angut Oola 

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

2006

COATS! Max Mara, 55 Years of Italian Fashion

Start Date 30 November 2006
End Date 04 March 2007
Venue Kunstbibliotek
Location Berlin, Germany
Curator Adelheid Rasche

2015

Max Mara: Coats!

Start Date 20 June 2015
End Date 25 August 2015
Venue Doungdaemun Design Plaza
Location Seoul, Korea
Curator Daehyung Lee
Designer Migliore+Servetto Architects, Milan

2017

Louis Vuitton: Volez, Voguez, Voyagez (Touring)

Start Date 08 June 2017
End Date 27 August 2017
Venue Dongdaemun Design Plaza
Location Seoul, Korea
Curator Olivier Saillard
Designer Robert Carsen

Rachel L Mellon Collection

Start Date 27 May 2017
End Date 28 January 2018
Venue Cristóbal Balenciaga Museoa 
Location Getaria, Spain
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2009

Drape: Classical Mode to Contemporary Dress

Start Date 02 December 2009
End Date 27 June 2010
Venue National Gallery of Victoria
Location Melbourne, Australia
Curator Paola Di Trocchio
Exhibition display of dress

2018

Cristóbal Balenciaga. Fashion and Heritage – Conversations

Start Date 23 March 2018
End Date 2019
Venue Cristóbal Balenciaga Museoa
Location Getaria, Spain
Curator Judith Clark
Exhibition display of dressed mannequin and horse head prop

Luminizing and Elegance: Qipao in Shanghai

Start Date 10 August 2018
End Date 16 October 2018
Venue Shanghai History Museum
Location Shanghai, China
Curator Zhang Xia
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2016

Coal and Velvet: Views on Popular Costumes by Ortiz Echagüe and Balenciaga

Start Date 06 October 2016
End Date 07 May 2017
Venue Cristóbal Balenciaga Museoa
Location Getaria, Spain
Curator Ana Balda
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Fashioning a Reign – 90 Years of Style from The Queen’s Wardrobe

Start Date 17 September 2016
End Date 08 January 2017
Venue Buckingham Palace
Location London, UK
Curator Caroline de Guitaut
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins with Queen Elizabeth II garments against a backdrop

2018

Louis Vuitton: Volez, Voguez, Voyagez (Touring)

Start Date 16 November 2018
End Date 01 February 2019
Venue Shanghai Exhibition Center
Location Shanghai, China
Curator Olivier Saillard
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2016

Louis Vuitton: Volez, Voguez, Voyagez (Touring)

Start Date 23 April 2016
End Date 23 June 2016
Venue Bespoke Structure
Location Tokyo, Japan
Curator Olivier Saillard

2019

English Tea Story: Afternoon Tea’s ‘Yosohohi’ (アフタヌーンティーのよそほひ-英國紅茶物語)

Start Date 23 November 2019
End Date 19 January 2020
Venue Kobe Fashion Museum
Location Kobe, Japan
Exhibition display of dressed mannequin beside a tea service on a table

2016

Anatomie d’une Collection (Anatomy of a Collection)

Start Date 14 May 2016
End Date 23 October 2016
Venue Palais Galliera
Location Paris, France
Curator Olivier Saillard
Designer Olivier Saillard assisted by Béatrice Abonyi
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Vlisco: African Fashion on a Global Stage

Start Date 30 April 2016
End Date 22 January 2017
Venue Philadelphia Museum of Art
Location Philadelphia, USA
Curator Dilys E. Blum
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins and wall displays

2020

Fashion through the Years

Start Date 16 December 2020
End Date 16 February 2021
Venue Qasr Al Hosn
Location Abu Dhabi, UAE
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins and imagery

2019

Ioanna Papantoniou «Doulamas» the magnificent. An exceptional overcoat.

Start Date 07 March 2019
End Date 26 May 2019
Venue Benaki Museum
Location Athens, Greece
Curator Ioanna Papantoniou
Designer Stamatis Zannos
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins with wooden patterned floor in foreground

2016

The Barefoot Designer: A Workshop to Unlearn

Start Date 23 March 2016
End Date 15 May 2016
Venue Fundacion Jumex
Location Mexico City, Mexico
Curator Luca Stoppini
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins and imagery

2019

Nature by Design: Katagami

Start Date 30 March 2019
End Date 27 October 2019
Venue Cooper Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Design Museum
Location New York, USA
Curator Julia Siemon
Exhibition display of garments suspended in the air

2012

Fashioning Fashion: Deux Siècles de Mode Européenne 1700–1915 (Fashioning Fashion: Two Centuries of European Fashion 1700–1915)

Start Date 13 December 2012
End Date 14 April 2013
Venue Les Arts Décoratifs
Location Paris, France
Curator Veronique Belloir and Denis Bruna
Designer Frédéric Beauclair

Blue Jeans

Start Date 24 November 2012
End Date 10 March 2013
Venue Centraal Museum
Location Utrecht, The Netherlands
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Hartnell to Amies: Couture by Royal Appointment

Start Date 16 November 2012
End Date 23 February 2013
Venue Fashion and Textile Museum
Location London, England
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Beyond Dress Codes: From Traditional Costume to Contemporary Fashion

Start Date 27 September 2012
End Date 31 December 2012
Venue Marfin Laiki Bank Cultural Centre (Byron Avenue Museum)
Location Nicosia, Cyprus
Curator Lydia Kamitsis

Reconstruction: Cultural Heritage and the Making of Contemporary Fashion

Start Date 23 April 2012
End Date May 2012
Venue Artplay
Location Moscow, Russia
Curator Alison Moloney
Designer Nissen Richards Studio

Reconstruction: Cultural Heritage and the Making of Contemporary Fashion

Start Date January 2012
End Date 11 February 2012
Venue National Museum of Bangladesh
Location Dhaka, Bangladesh
Curator Alison Moloney
Designer Nissen Richards Studio

Reconstruction: Cultural Heritage and the Making of Contemporary Fashion

Start Date April 2012
End Date May 2012
Venue National Museum of Georgia
Location Tblisi, Georgia
Curator Alison Moloney
Designer Nissen Richards Studio
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Reconstruction: Cultural Heritage and the Making of Contemporary Fashion

Start Date March 2012
End Date April 2012
Venue Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture
Location Karachi, Pakistan
Curator Alison Moloney
Designer Nissen Richards Studio
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Victoria Revealed

Start Date 26 March 2012
Venue Kensington Palace
Location London, England
Curator Deirdre Murphy and Claudia Williams
Exhibition display of three mannequins in black garments

Reconstruction: Cultural Heritage and the Making of Contemporary Fashion

Start Date March 2012
End Date March 2012
Venue Lahore Museum
Location Lahore, Pakistan
Curator Alison Moloney
Designer Nissen Richards Studio