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2024

Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens

Start Date 20 June 2024
End Date 08 September 2024
Venue National Portrait Gallery
Location London, UK
Curator Charlotte Bolland
Costume for Catherine of Aragon from ‘Six: The Musical’, 2020, designed by Gabriella Slade. Displayed in ‘Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIlI’s Queens’ at The National Portrait Gallery, London. The costume is mostly black and gold. Puff shoulders of gold and black tights, with black shoes.

Our Collection by Colour No.4: RED

Start Date 30 August 2024
End Date 13 October 2024
Venue The School of Historical Dress
Location London, UK
A display of red and gold garments. Left: a T-shaped garment hung up on a red backdrop. Centre: a cone shaped red skirt. Right: a red and gold patterned dress.

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

2015

Paupers, Petticoats and Pinafores

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

2019

Majesty & Mystery: Saving a Napoleonic Court Gown

Start Date 05 February 2019
End Date 13 April 2019
Venue FIDM Museum
Location Los Angeles, USA
Curator Kevin Jones
A white empress-style dress is worn on a white mannequin. Illustrated pattern cuttings are printed onto the wall behind the dress. The caption 'PIECING HISTORY TOGETHER' is printed near the bottom of the wall in large font.

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

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.

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

Asia Minor Hellenism: Heyday – Catastrophe – Displacement – Rebirth

Start Date 15 September 2022
End Date 12 February 2023
Venue Benaki Museum
Location Athens, Greece
Curator Evita Arapoglou
Exhibition display of mannequins in Hellenic dress

2021

City and Fashion Invited by French Literature: From the Late 19th Century to the 20th Century (Phase II)

Start Date 19 November 2021
End Date 29 January 2022
Venue Kobe Fashion Museum
Location Kobe, Japan
exhibition display of mannequins in period costume

2020

About Time: Fashion and Duration

Start Date 29 October 2020
End Date 07 February 2021
Venue Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location New York, USA
Curator Andrew Bolton
Designer Es Devlin with The Met’s Design Department
Assistant Curator Amanda Garfinkel
Curatorial Consultant Jan Reeder
Exhibition with multiple mannequins reflected in a mirrored ceiling

2002

Living in Afghanistan

Start Date 19 June 2002
End Date 12 October 2002
Venue Textile Museum of Canada
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Curator Natalia Nekrassova and Max Allen
Exhibition with mannequins on a plinth displaying clothing from Afghanistan, with textiles hanging from two walls.

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.

Objects and Their Stories: Shoes at Berkshire Museum

Start Date 31 May 2019
End Date 03 November 2019
Venue Berkshire Museum
Location Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
Exhibition with two glass cabinets displaying shoes, and a print on the wall of two people dancing, one not wearing shoes.

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.

2017

Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair

Start Date 18 March 2017
End Date 24 July 2018
Venue The Textile Museum at The George Washington Museum
Location Washington D.C., USA
Curator Joy L. Bivins and Camille Ann Brewer
Exhibition with two mannequins; one facing backwards with one arm on the hip and one facing forwards with its arms up displaying garments.

2019

French Fashion, Women, and the First World War

Start Date 05 September 2019
End Date 05 January 2020
Venue Bard Graduate Center Gallery
Location New York, USA
Curator Maude Bass-Krueger and Sophie Kurkdjian
Exhibition with plinth surrounded by glass with three mannequins displaying garments and two open books.

2012

Fashioning the New Woman: 1890-1925

Start Date 05 October 2012
End Date 31 August 2013
Venue DAR Museum
Location Washington D.C., USA
Curator Alden O’Brien
Exhibition with exhibition title on the wall and two mannequins displaying garments.

2017

Fashioning Canada since 1867

Start Date 15 March 2017
End Date 17 December 2017
Venue Fashion History Museum
Location Ontario, Canada
Curator Jonathan Walford
Exhibition with a cream colour wall and a white plinth covered in red rose petal leaves holding mannequins displaying garments.

2019

Fashioning Art from Paper

Start Date 22 October 2019
End Date 12 January 2020
Venue SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film
Location Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Curator Alexandra Sachs
Exhibition with a decorative wall and a plinth holding four mannequins displaying paper garments

2007

New Threads: Quilts and Costumes

Start Date 09 November 2007
End Date 01 March 2008
Venue DAR Museum
Location Washington D.C., USA
Curator Alden O’Brien

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

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

2020

Treasures of Fashion: The aesthetic sense of Valerie Steele

Start Date 19 May 2020
End Date 30 August 2020
Venue Kobe Fashion Museum
Location Kobe, Japan
Curator Valerie Steele
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins with white wigs

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

2018

INCA dress codes

Start Date 23 November 2018
End Date 21 April 2019
Venue The Royal Museum of Art & History
Location Brussels, Belgium

2014

In Fine Style: The Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion

Start Date 28 February 2014
End Date 13 June 2014
Venue The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyrood House
Location Edinburgh, UK
Curator Anna Reynolds

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

2010

Childhood in the Past

Start Date 01 July 2010
End Date 01 April 2011
Venue Chertsey Museum
Location Chertsey, Surrey, UK

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

2014

Marian Clayden A Dyer’s Journey Through Art and Fashion

Start Date 27 September 2014
End Date 29 November 2014
Venue Harris Museum and Art Gallery
Location Preston, UK
Curator Mary Schoeser
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2010

L’oro e La Seta (Gold and Silk)

Start Date 16 September 2010
End Date 26 June 2011
Venue Fondazione Accorsi Ometto
Location Turin, Italy
Curator Carlo Sisi
mannequin in dark long dress and masked eyewear

2011

Icône de Mode (Fashion Icon)

Start Date 04 November 2011
End Date 25 March 2012
Venue Musée des Tissus
Location Marseille, France

2014

Riviera Style: Resort and
Swimwear since 1900

Start Date 22 May 2014
End Date 13 September 2015
Venue Fashion and Textile Museum
Location London, UK
Exhibition display of mannequins in swimwear

2009

An Image of Itself

Start Date 19 September 2009
End Date 28 August 2010
Venue Chertsey Museum
Location Chertsey, Surrey, UK

2012

Sports and Spectators: Then and Now, 1880–2012

Start Date 27 May 2012
End Date 28 September 2012
Venue Totnes Fashion and Textiles Museum
Location Totnes, UK

2013

Reflections: Costume 1730–2013

Start Date 31 May 2013
End Date 27 April 2014
Venue Ulster Museum
Location Ulster, Ireland

2011

Paquin Winter 1911: The Centenary of an Evening Gown

Start Date 03 December 2011
End Date 03 December 2011
Venue The Bowes Museum
Location County Durham, UK

2010

Devout / Divine – Fashion vs Religion

Start Date 26 June 2010
End Date 09 January 2011
Venue Modemuseum
Location Hasselt, Belgium
Curator Kenneth Ramaekers
Designer Michael Verheyden
Design Brusatto
Project Assistant Eve Demeon
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2011

Dress for Excess: Fashion in Regency England

Start Date 05 February 2011
End Date 05 February 2012
Venue The Royal Pavilion
Location Brighton, 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

Women Fashion Power

Start Date 29 October 2014
End Date 26 April 2015
Venue The Design Museum
Location London, UK
Curator Colin McDowell and Donna Loveday
Designer Zaha Hadid
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2016

Threads of History: Two Hundred Years of Fashion

Start Date 10 November 2016
End Date 12 March 2017
Venue SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film
Location Atlanta, USA
Curator Rafael Gomes
Assitant Curator Luca Lo Sicco
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2012

The Victorian Book: Fashion and Furnishings 1837–1901

Start Date 02 March 2012
End Date 31 January 2013
Venue Lotherton Hall
Location Leeds, UK

2018

Miao Costumes in Guizhou

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

2020

Collective Inspiration

Start Date 12 December 2020
End Date 02 May 2021
Venue The Ellman Fashion Design Gallery, Phoenix Art Museum
Location Phoenix, USA
Exhibition display of dress and decorative objects on open display

2015

Shifting Patterns: Pacific Barkcloth Clothing

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

2019

Rural Life

Start Date 01 January 2019
End Date 31 December 2019
Venue Fairlynch Museum
Location Budleigh, UK
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

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

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

2017

Preston Street Style

Start Date 09 September 2017
End Date 30 January 2019
Venue Harris Museum and Art Gallery
Location Preston, UK

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

Fashion Statements

Start Date 20 September 2014
End Date 05 September 2015
Venue Chertsey Museum
Location Chertsey, UK

Bright Young Things

Start Date January 2014
End Date December 2014
Venue Fairlynch Museum
Location Devon, UK
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2015

Bright Young Things

Start Date January 2015
End Date December 2015
Venue Fairlynch Museum
Location Devon, UK
Exhibition display of dress laid on tissue paper

2011

Feathercuts and Flares

Start Date 14 October 2011
End Date 11 October 2012
Venue Walker Art Gallery
Location Liverpool, UK

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

2015

Fashion on the Ration: 1940s Street Style

Start Date 05 March 2015
End Date 31 August 2015
Venue Imperial War Museum
Location London, UK

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

2016

An Evolution of Fashion: Chinese Costume from 1920s to 2010s

Start Date September 2016
End Date December 2021
Venue China National Silk Museum
Location Hangzhou, China

2015

Fabric of Society

Start Date 14 March 2015
End Date 01 November 2015
Venue Cliffe Castle Museum, Bradford Museums
Location Bradford, UK

2013

Dressed For Battle

Start Date 22 March 2013
End Date 14 January 2014
Venue Lotherton Hall, Leeds City Museums
Location Leeds, UK

2012

Charlotte, The Forgotten Princess

Start Date 12 March 2012
End Date 10 March 2013
Venue The Royal Pavilion
Location Brighton, UK

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

2017

Bicentenary of the Birth of Admiral Preedy

Start Date 2017
End Date 2017
Venue Fairlynch Museum
Location Devon, UK
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

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

The Way of Chinese Silk: Silk History and the Silk Road

Start Date December 2019
End Date December 2020
Venue China National Silk Museum
Location Hangzhou, China
Curator Zhao Feng
Exhibition display of flat garment in glass case

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

2016

An Agreeable Tyrant: Fashion After the Revolution

Start Date 7 October 2016
End Date 29 April 2017
Venue DAR Museum
Location Washington D.C., USA

2018

The Charm of a Great Power: Fashion review for 40 years since the Reform and Opening-up

Start Date 01 October 2018
End Date 01 December 2018
Venue China National Silk Museum
Location Hangzhou, China
Curator Zhao Feng
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins and fashion accessories

1975

Six Wives of Henry VIII Costumes

Start Date 06 September 1975
End Date 27 October 1975
Venue Christchurch Art Gallery, Te Puna O Waiwhetu
Location Christchurch, New Zealand Aotearoa

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

Black and White in Western Fashion

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

2013

Po, the Seonbi Spirit in Clothing

Start Date 31 October 2013
End Date 20 November 2013
Venue Arumjigi Culture Keepers Foundation
Location Seoul, South Korea
Curator  Ko Jeong Ah, Nam Ji Hyun, Kim Un Kyung
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2018

101 Tales of Fashion at Fashion History Museum

Start Date March 14 2018
End Date December 23 2018
Venue Fashion History Museum
Location Ontario, Canada

2016

Uniformity

Start Date 20 May 2016
End Date 20 November 2016
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA
Curator Emma McClendon
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2017

A Tribute to James Galanos

Start Date 19 August 2017
End Date 07 January 2018
Venue The Ellman Fashion Design Gallery, Phoenix Art Museum
Location Phoenix, USA
Exhibition display of dress and imagery

2018

Style Icons: A look at traditional Clothing

Start Date 15 March 2018
End Date 03 June 2018
Venue Museo Del Traje
Location Madrid, Spain
Curator Olivier Saillard and Helena López de Hierro
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

The Sandal

Start Date June 2018
End Date 13 October 2018
Venue Eretz Israel Museum
Location Tel-Aviv, Israel
Curator Tamara El-or

Rebel Women:
Defying Victorianism

Start Date 17 July 2018
End Date 06 January 2019
Venue Museum of the City of New York
Location New York, USA
Curator Marcela Micucci

68: Pop and Protest

Start Date 18 October 2018
End Date 17 March 2019
Venue The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe
Location Hamburg, Germany
Curator Vivian Michalski
Exhibition display of dresses mounted on wall

2012

Uniformity: Cracking the Dress Code

Start Date 27 September 2012
End Date 28 July 2013
Venue Te Papa Tongarewa (Museum of New Zealand)
Location Wellington, New Zealand
Exhibition entrance including banner with exhibition title

15 Years Without Gianni

Start Date 13 July 2012
End Date 28 October 2012
Venue Museo Del Traje
Location Madrid, Spain
Curator Juan Gutiérrez

2019

Girls Against Boys: Fashion and gender in the beginnings of Spanish modernity

Start Date 22 October 2019
End Date 01 December 2019
Venue Museo Del Traje
Location Madrid, Spain
Curator Juan Gutiérrez
Coordination: Ana Muñoz
Assembly: Youth Museum workshop participants
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Power Mode: The Force of Fashion

Start Date 10 December 2019
End Date 09 May 2020
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA
Curator Emma McClendon
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Worn by the Gods.
The Art of shoemaking in the ancient world,
the epic movie and contemporary fashion

Start Date 16 December 2019
End Date 25 September 2020
Venue Palazzo Pitti, Le Gallerie degli Uffizi
Location Florence, Italy
Curator Lorenza Camin, Caterina Chiarelli and Fabrizio Paolucci

2011

The Judgement of Paris

Start Date 16 February 2011
End Date 02 April 2011
Venue Fashion Space Gallery
Location London, UK
Curator Judith Clark
Exhibition case of calico covered mannequin busts with headdresses and of calico torsos

2009

The Art of Fashion: Installing Allusions

Start Date 19 September 2009
End Date 30 January 2010
Venue Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Location Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Curator Judith Clark and José Teunissen
Exhibition display of silhoutted dressed mannequin and multiple tv screens

On a Pedestal: From Renaissance Chopines to Baroque High Heels

Start Date November 2009
End Date 20 September 2010
Venue Bata Shoe Museum
Location Toronto, Canada

2011

Factory, Fashion and Dream

Start Date October 2011
End Date 31 March 2012
Venue Eretz Israel Museum
Location Israel
Curator Monica Lavi, Eran Litvin

2019

10,000 Years of Luxury

Start Date 30 October 2019
End Date 18 February 2020
Venue Louvre Abu Dhabi
Location Abu Dhabi, UAE
Curator Olivier Gabet
Designer Adrien Gardère
Exhibition display of textiles, ornate objects and dressed mannequins in cases