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2014

Marga Weimans – Fashion House

Start Date 15 June 2014
End Date 23 November 2014
Venue Groninger Museum
Location Groningnen, Netherlands
Curator Mark Wilson and Sue-an van der Zijpp
A mannequin wears a black embroidered dress with elaborately large skirt. On the curved wall around it is a black and white landscape-style photo of Weimans' work. In the background is a manipulated portrait of a person with a glass building on their head.

2019

Zandra Rhodes: 50 Years of Fabulous

Start Date 27 September 2019
End Date 26 January 2020
Venue Fashion and Textile Museum
Location London, UK
Curator Dennis Nothdruft
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2007

Golden Threads & My Chinatown

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

2012

Unexpected Pleasures: The Art and Design of Contemporary Jewellery (touring)

Start Date 20 April 2012
End Date 26 August 2012
Venue National Gallery of Victoria
Location Melbourne, Australia
Curator Dr. Susan Cohn
Designer Ab Rogers Design

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

Shoes: Anatomy, Identity, Magic

Start Date 01 September 2022
End Date 31 December 2022
Venue Museum at FIT
Location New York City, U.S.A
Curator Dr Valerie Steele and Colleen Hill
A sitting mannequin in front of a low-placed mirror to examine her shoes, in front of a display wall of shoes

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

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

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

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.

2019

Studio Nicholas Daley

Start Date 06 September 2019
End Date 07 February 2020
Venue V&A Dundee
Location Dundee, U.K.
Curator Mhairi Maxwell
A studio view showing Daley's designs, three desks with books and magazines, and photographs

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

Modus Hosts

Start Date 31 October 2022
End Date 30 January 2023
Venue Fashion Space Gallery
Location London, UK
Curator Caroline Stevenson and Ruby Hoette
Commissioned by Modus Hosts
Exhibition display of garments displayed on a clothes rail in gallery space

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

La pensée corps

Start Date 15 November 2022
End Date 28 January 2023
Venue Fondation d'entreprise Pernod Ricard
Location Paris, France
Curator Claire Le Restif

Fashioning Masculinities: the Art of Menswear

Start Date 19 March 2022
End Date 06 November 2022
Venue V&A
Location London
Curator Claire Wilcox and Rosalind McKever
Designer Jayden Ali
Installation view of Fashioning Masculinities Exhibition at V&A Museum, London

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

2014

Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion (Touring)

Start Date 21 March 2014
End Date 11 May 2014
Venue National Museum of Modern Art
Location Kyoto, Japan

2013

Future Beauty: Avant-Garde Japanese Fashion (Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion, Touring)

Start Date 16 November 2013
End Date 26 January 2014
Venue Peabody Essex Museum
Location Salem, Massachusetts
Curator Akiko Fukai

2014

Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion (Touring)

Start Date 01 November 2014
End Date 15 February 2014
Venue The Gallery of Modern Art
Location Brisbane, Australia
Curator Akiko Fukai
garments on mannequins on display

2019

Dress Code: Are You Playing Fashion? (Touring)

Start Date 09 August 2019
End Date 24 August 2019
Venue The National Museum of Modern Art
Location Kyoto, Japan
Curator Makoto Ishizeki (The Kyoto Costume Institute), Chinatsu Makiguchi (The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto)
Designer DDAA
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2013

Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion (Touring)

Start Date 27 June 2013
End Date 08 September 2013
Venue Seattle Art Museum
Location Seattle, Washington
Curator Akiko Fukai

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

2002

Moral Fibre: Dress Codes from Purity to Wickedness

Start Date 17 July 2002
End Date 19 January 2003
Venue Textile Museum of Canada
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Curator Max Allen
Exhibition with three mannequins displaying garments, and three shoes.

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

2012

Staging Fashion, 1880–1920: Jane Hading, Lily Elsie, Billie Burke

Start Date 18 January 2012
End Date 08 April 2012
Venue Bard Graduate Center Gallery
Location New York, USA
Curator Michele Majer
Exhibition display of photographs and mannequins wearing period dress.

2022

ode to MEATYARD

Start Date 02 April 2022
End Date 30 April 2022
Venue The Horse Hospital
Location London, England

2016

The Dress: Mayann Francis and the Call to Serve

Start Date 02 September 2016
End Date 27 November 2017
Venue Dalhousie Art Gallery
Location Halifax, Canada.
Curator Mayann Francis, Paige Connell, Angela Glanzmann and Gary Markle
exhibition display of mannequins

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

2000

Hip-Hop Nation: Roots, Rhymes and Rage

Start Date 22 September 2000
End Date 31 December 2000
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, USA
Curator Kevin Powell
view of the exhibition displays

2018

Queer Looks

Start Date 30 June 2018
End Date 25 August 2019
Venue Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
Location Brighton, UK
Curator Martin Pel
exhibition display of mannequins

2022

Leigh Bowery – Tell Them I’ve Gone to Papua New Guinea

Start Date 07 January 2022
End Date 06 February 2022
Venue Fitzrovia Chapel
Location London, UK
Curator Hannah Watson with Nicola Bowery Bateman and the Estate of Leigh Bowery
Designer David "Biscuit' Beschizza, Charlotte Mann, Riccardo Pillon
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins of Leigh Bowery

2021

Style in Revolt

Start Date 16 December 2021
End Date March 2022
Venue T-10/SKP-S
Location Beijing, China
Curator Kennedy, led by Hannah Beach
Designer Caret Studio and Buromosa
Co-curated by Fraser Cooke, Paul Mittleman, Sami Janjer and Acyde Odunlami
With the generous support of Giorgio de Mitri
Soundtracked by musical director, James Lavelle
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

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

2012

Grace Kelly: Style Icon (Touring)

Start Date 11 March 2012
End Date 17 June 2012
Venue Bendigo Art Gallery
Location Bendigo, Australia
Curator Jenny Lister
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins and images

2010

Grace Kelly: Style Icon (Touring)

Start Date October 2010
End Date June 2012
Venue Toured by The British Council

2013

Laura Ashley, The Romantic Heroine (touring)

Start Date 21 September 2013
End Date 05 January 2014
Venue Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle
Location Teesdale, UK
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2020

The Real Thing

Start Date 07 February 2020
End Date 02 May 2020
Venue Fashion Space Gallery
Location London, UK
Curator Anastasiia Fedorova
Exhibition display of clothing hanging on a wire frame

2016

(dis)ABLED BEAUTY: the evolution of beauty, disability, and ability

Start Date 29 July 2016
End Date 12 March 2017
Venue Kent State University Museum
Location Kent, USA
Curator Tameka Ellington and Stacey Lim
Designer Jim Williams
Exhibition display of mannequin in white stylised wheelchair

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

Studio 54: Night Magic (Touring)

Start Date 25 June 2021
End Date 17 October 2021
Venue Dortmunder U
Location Dortmund, Germany
Curator Matthew Yokobosky
Designer Matthew Yokobosky

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

2015

Made Up — The Liverpool Look

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

2010

Greta Garbo: Il mistero dello stile

Start Date 28 February 2010
End Date 04 April 2010
Venue Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
Location Florence, Italy

2015

Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal

Start Date 11 July 2015
End Date 08 November 2015
Venue Bowes Museum
Location Barnard Castle, Teesdale, UK
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2014

Designer in Focus — John Bates at Jean Varon

Start Date 05 April 2014
End Date 2015
Venue Walker Art Gallery
Location Liverpool, UK
Curator Pauline Rushton

2011

Dressing Up, Dressing Down

Start Date 12 February 2011
End Date 31 October 2011
Venue Killerton House
Location Devon, UK

Dress Rehearsal: Twentieth-century Yorkshire Clothes at Saltaire Mill

Start Date 16 April 2011
End Date 05 May 2011
Venue Yorkshire Fashion Archive, Leeds University
Location Leeds, UK

2021

Dress Code: Are You Playing Fashion? (Touring)

Start Date 21 May 2021
End Date 12 September 2021
Venue Bundeskunsthalle
Location Bonn, Germany
Curator Eva Kraus and Susanne Kleine

No Comply – Skate Culture and Community

Start Date 19 July 2021
End Date 19 September 2021
Venue Somerset House
Location London, UK
Curator Tory Turk, Curator and Consultant Curator Helena Long, British skateboarder
Designer Studio LP and Interesting Projects
Original Idea Frankie Shea

In America (Part 1): A Lexicon of Fashion

Start Date 18 September 2021
End Date 05 September 2022
Venue Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location New York, USA
Curator Andrew Bolton and Amanda Garfinkel
Designer LAMB Design Studio with the Met's design department

2019

Dress Code: Are You Playing Fashion? (Touring)

Start Date 08 December 2019
End Date 23 February 2020
Venue Contemporary Art Museum
Location Kumamoto, Japan
Curator Makoto Ishizeki (The Kyoto Costume Institute), Chinatsu Makiguchi (The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto)

2020

Dress Code: Are You Playing Fashion? (Touring)

Start Date 04 July 2020
End Date 30 August 2020
Venue Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
Location Tokyo, Japan
Curator Makoto Ishizeki (The Kyoto Costume Institute), Chinatsu Makiguchi (The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto)
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

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

1999

Audrey Hepburn una donna, the style

Start Date 1999
End Date 2001
Venue Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
Location Florence, Italy
Curator Stefania Ricci and Gianluca Bauzano

2009

A Gentleman’s Wardrobe

Start Date November 2009
End Date 2010
Venue Armley Mills, Leeds Industrial Museum
Location Leeds, UK

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

2010

Exotismo/Exoticism

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

2016

Wedding Dresses from the Ryedale Folk Museum collection

Start Date 04 August 2016
End Date 04 September 2016
Venue Ryedale Folk Museum
Location Hutton le Hole, North Yorkshire, UK.
Curator Guislaine Lemay
Designer Daniel Castonguay
Exhibition display of dressed mannequin in long tiered gown

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

2018

LOL by La Cambre Mode[s]

Start Date 23 June 2018
End Date 30 September 2018
Venue Musée Mode & Dentelle
Formerly Musée du Costume et de la dentelle
Exhibition display of clothes hanging on a rail

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

2015

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

2005

Yves Saint Laurent: Smoking Forever

Start Date 05 October 2005
End Date 23 April 2006
Venue Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent
Location Paris, France
Curator Yves Saint Laurent
Designer Christophe Martin
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

2019

Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite

Start Date 04 December 2019
End Date 01 March 2020
Venue Museum of African Diaspora
Location San Fransico, California, USA
Curator Kwame Brathwaite Jr. and Michael Famighetti
Designer Bethany Montagano
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins with portraits in background

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

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

2012

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

2009

Fashion & Politics

Start Date 07 July 2009
End Date 07 November 2009
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA
Curator Melissa Marra and Jennifer Farley
Associate curators Colleen Hill, Harumi Hotta, and Lynn Weidner
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2019

Gender Bending Fashion

Start Date 21 March 2019
End Date 25 August 2019
Venue Museum of Fine Arts
Location Boston, USA
Curator Michelle Tolini Fillamore
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2013

From Philadelphia to Monaco: Grace Kelly, Beyond the Icon

Start Date 06 June 2013
End Date 06 October 2013
Venue McCord Museum of National History
Location Montreal, Canada
Curator Cynthia Cooper

2015

Shifting Patterns: Pacific Barkcloth Clothing

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

2014

Fashion Statements

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

 Making Design 

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

2018

Beyond the Suit: Contemporary Menswear from the Collection of Alexandre Marr and Dominic Iudiciani

Start Date 27 July 2018
End Date 20 June 2019
Venue Kent State University Museum
Location Kent, USA
Curator Dominic Iudiciani
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

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

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

2013

David Bowie Is

Start Date 23 March 2013
End Date 11 August 2013
Venue V&A
Location London, UK
Curator Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Club to Catwalk:
London Fashion in the 1980s

Start Date 10 July 2013
End Date 16 February 2014
Venue V&A
Location London, UK
Curator Claire Wilcox and Wendy Dagworthy
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

2010

Grace Kelly: Style Icon

Start Date 17 April 2010
End Date 26 September 2010
Venue V&A
Location London, England
Curator Jenny Lister
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2016

Undressed:
A brief history of underwear (Touring)

Start Date 16 April 2016
End Date 12 March 2017
Venue V&A
Location London, UK
Curator Edwina Ehrmann
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2018

Frida Kahlo:
Making Her Self Up

Start Date 16 June 2018
End Date 18 November 2018
Venue V&A
Location London, UK
Curator Claire Wilcox and Circe Henestrosa
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2019

Mary Quant (Touring)

Start Date 06 April 2019
End Date 16 February 2020
Venue V&A
Location London, UK
Curator Jenny Lister, Stephanie Wood
Designer V&A
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2020

Mary Quant (Touring)

Start Date 17 August 2020
End Date 21 January 2021
Venue V&A Dundee
Location Dundee, UK
Curator Jenny Lister, Stephanie Wood
Designer V&A
Rear view of exhibition display of dressed mannequins

1994

Streetstyle: From Sidewalk to Catwalk, 1940 to Tomorrow

Start Date 16 November 1994
End Date 19 February 1995
Venue V&A
Location London, UK
Curator Amy de la Haye, Cathie Dingwall and Ted Polhemus
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins, didactic panel and backdrop