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2025

Dress Codes: Decoding the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection

Start Date
13 March 2025
End Date
30 November 2025
Venue
Kensington Palace
Location
London, UK
Curator
Matthew Storey
A collection of clothing from Lady Diana's collection. In hues of green, red and white outfits made up in dresses, blazers and skirts.

2024

La Saga des grands magasins. De 1850 à nos jours’ (The History of Department Stores, from 1850 to nowadays)

Start Date
06 November 2024
End Date
06 April 2025
Venue
Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine
Location
Paris, France
Curator
Isabelle Marquette
Conservation Assistant
Elvira Férault
Associate Curator
Christelle Lecoeur
Curatorial Assistant
Anjali Pasquion Somaradjalou
(Left) A white gown laced with floor length beige skirt, female mannequin is holding a brown straw hat. (Right) Half length black cloak.

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
Two mannequins on display with long gowns c. early 20th century, in green with pink pattern, and bronze

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
17 May 2025
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
01 January 2021
End Date
01 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
01 March 2018
End Date
01 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
01 January 1970
Venue
Trowbridge Museum
Location
Trowbridge, UK

Style in Silk: Tradition and Innovation in Chinese Fashion

Start Date
01 January 2013
End Date
01 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
01 January 2014
End Date
01 December 2014
Venue
Fairlynch Museum
Location
Devon, UK
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2015

Bright Young Things

Start Date
01 January 2015
End Date
01 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
01 September 2018
End Date
01 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
01 February 2013
End Date
01 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
01 September 2016
End Date
01 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
01 January 1970
End Date
01 January 1970
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
01 December 2019
End Date
01 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
07 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
14 March 2018
End Date
23 December 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
01 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
01 November 2009
End Date
20 September 2010
Venue
Bata Shoe Museum
Location
Toronto, Canada

2011

Factory, Fashion and Dream

Start Date
01 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