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2024

Writing Clothes: An Exhibition of Fashion Text

Start Date 13 June 2024
End Date 01 October 2024
Venue International Library of Fashion Research
Location Norway, Oslo
Curator Jeppe Ugelvig & Laura Gardner
Black and white male and female clothes hanging on display in a white room.

2023

The Magic of Cuir Bouilli: from Armour to Haute Couture

Start Date 07 October 2023
End Date 31 March 2024
Venue Shoe Quarter
Location Waalwijk, Netherlands

2014

The Anatomy of a Suit

Start Date 01 January 2014
End Date 01 June 2014
Venue Museum of London
Location London, UK
Curator Timothy Long

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

2004

Vivienne Westwood: A Retrospective

Start Date 01 April 2004
End Date 11 July 2004
Venue V&A
Location London, England
Curator Claire Wilcox
Designer Azman Architects
Exhibition display of mannequins in day-glo coloured 17th Century period style costume

2014

The Future of Fashion is Now

Start Date October 2014
End Date 18 January 2015
Venue Museum Boijman Van Beuningen
Location Rotterdam, Netherlands

2017

The Vulgar: Fashion Redefined (touring)

Start Date 03 March 2017
End Date 25 June 2017
Venue The Winterpalais, Belvedere
Location Vienna, Austria
Curator Adam Phillips and Judith Clark
Designer Judith Clark
Production Designer Sam Collins
Two panniered skirts are displayed in a brown wooden frame in a gilt gold room. Three embroidered menswear outfits are displayed in the background.

The Vulgar: Fashion Redefined (touring)

Start Date 30 September 2017
End Date 12 January 2018
Venue ModeMuseum
Location Hasselt, Belgium
Curator Adam Phillips and Judith Clark
Designer Judith Clark
Production Designer Sam Collins
Two dresses with abstract puritan collars stand on white mannequins against a dark backdrop.

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

2022

Knock Knock

Start Date 08 December 2022
End Date 11 December 2022
Venue Season Gallery, 81 Brick Lane
Location London, UK
Curator Felix Choong
Designer Rory Mullen
Exhibitors: 1000Morceaux, Cha Myung, Comme Des Garçons, Gui Rosa, Issey Miyake, James Walsh, Junya Watanabe, Miss Corpus, Per Gotesson, Rebecca Jeffs, Sheryn Akiki, VeniceW, Vivienne Westwood
A dressed mannequin in front of a white shed type building

2021

Design and Healing: Creative responses to epidemics

Start Date 10 December 2021
End Date 20 February 2023
Venue Cooper Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Design Museum
Location New York, USA
Curator MASS Design Group and Cooper Hewitt
Exhibition shot of mannequin in hospital scrubs and masc with several other face-masked mannequin heads in a row, in front of a screen with women's masked face.

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

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

2018

Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion

Start Date 24 February 2018
End Date 13 May 2018
Venue The Steele Gallery & Kelly Ellman Fashion Design Gallery, Phoenix Art Museum
Location Phoenix, USA
Curator Sarah Schleuning, Mark Wilson and Sue-an van der Zijpp
Exhibition with mannequins on a long plinth all facing the same direction displaying Iris Van Herpen garments.

1997

Spin Cycle: Recycling and Reclaiming Textile Traditions

Start Date 14 June 1997
End Date 25 January 1998
Venue Textile Museum of Canada
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Curator Margot Fagan, Machenry Rachel and Lynne Milgram

2022

ode to MEATYARD

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

2019

Dialogues: 130 Years of Lanvin

Start Date 06 December 2019
End Date 09 February 2020
Venue Fosun Foundation
Location Shanghai, China
Curator Judith Clark
Designer Judith Clark
Dressed mannequins with skull cap wigs

2010

eX de Medici/Vexed Generation

Start Date 08 December 2010
End Date 29 January 2011
Venue Fashion Space Gallery
Location London, UK
Curator Magdalene Keaney
Exhibition display of dressed mannequin against a wall padded with cloth

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

2020

Julia y Renata: Fashion and Transformation

Start Date 26 November 2020
End Date 14 February 2021
Venue Museo de Arte De Zapopan
Location Zapopan, Mexico
Curator Tanya Meléndez
Designer Karla Vazquez
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2011

Innovations – Developments in Fashion and Textiles

Start Date 24 May 2011
End Date 30 September 2011
Venue Totnes Fashion and Textiles Museum
Location Devon, UK.

2021

Long Live Fashion

Start Date 25 September 2021
End Date 27 March 2022
Venue TextielMuseum
Location Tilburg, Netherlands

Chintz: Cotton in Bloom

Start Date 18 May 2021
End Date 12 September 2021
Venue Fashion and Textile Museum
Location London, UK
Curator Dennis Nothdruft

Sustainable Thinking

Start Date 12 April 2019
End Date 8 March 2019
Venue Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
Location Florence, Italy
Curator Giusy Bettoni, Arabella S. Natalini, Stefania Ricci, Sara Sozzani Maino and Marina Spadafora
Exhibition display of shoes

2011

¿Que me pongo? El vestuario de Maria Brillas de Pedro Rodríguez
(What do I wear? Maria Brillas’ wardrobe by Pedro Rodríguez)

Start Date 03 March 2011
End Date 28 August 2011
Venue Museo del Diseño de Barcelona
Location Barcelona, Spain
Curator Miren Arzalluz and Sílvia Ventosa
Designer Olga Subirós

2004

Ideas, Models, Inventions

Start Date 2004
End Date 2004
Venue Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
Location Florence, Italy
Curator Stefania Ricci
Exhibition display of documents in a cabinet situated in a long room

2019

Folded and Moulded: Pleating and Draping in Fashion

Start Date 21 September 2019
End Date 05 September 2020
Venue Chertsey Museum
Location Surrey, UK
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins behind 2 glass cases

2008

El cos Vestit (The dressed body)

Start Date 02 December 2008
End Date 30 December 2012
Venue Museo del Diseño de Barcelona
Location Barcelona, Spain
Curator Teresa Bastardes and Sílvia Ventosa
Designer Julia Schulz-Dornburg and Eugenia Troncoso
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

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

2015

Azzedine Alaïa: Couture / Sculpture

Start Date 11 July 2015
End Date 25 October 2015
Venue Galleria Borghese
Location Rome, Italy
Exhibition display of sculptures and 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

2015

Jazz Age. The Roaring 20s

Start Date 12 September 2015
End Date 13 March 2016
Venue Modemuseum
Location Hasselt, Belgium
Curator Kenneth Ramaekers and Eve Demoen
Designer Scenography: Michiel Van Der Bos
Design: Brusatto
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

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

2017

Christian Dior, Courturier du Rêve (Touring)

Start Date 05 July 2017
End Date 07 January 2018
Venue Musée des Arts Décoratifs
Location Paris, France
Curator Olivier Gabet, Florence Müller
Exhibition display of dressed mannequin

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

1946

Britain Can Make It

Start Date September 1946
End Date December 1946
Venue V&A
Location London, UK
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

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

2021

Fashions of the Jazz Age

Start Date 20 April 2021
End Date 04 September 2021
Venue Chertsey Museum
Location Surrey, UK
Curator Grace Evans

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

2001

Radical Fashion

Start Date 18 October 2001
End Date 06 January 2002
Venue V&A
Location London, UK
Exhibition display of dressed mannequin in foreground to colourful backdrop

1988

Fashion and Surrealism

Start Date 29 June 1988
End Date 29 August 1988
Venue V&A
Location London, England
Four mannequins dressed in contemporary feminine garments

2020

Homesick for Another World

Start Date 08 October 2020
End Date 10 October 2020
Venue 8-10 Greatorex Street E1 5NF
Location London, UK
Curator Felix Choong
Designer Felix Choong
Exhibitors: Aliou Janha, Carl Gustaf von Platen, Chet Lo, Feben, Isabel MacInnes, Katya Zelentsova, Mainline:Rus/Fr.Ca/De, Marie Lueder, San Kim, Taylor Thoroski, The Exquisite Corpse Project, Yasmina Atta
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

2020

Body Beautiful: Diversity on the Catwalk (Touring)

Start Date 08 February 2020
End Date 09 August 2020
Venue Textil Museet
Location Boras, Sweden
Curator Georgina Ripley, National Museum of Scotland
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2019

Body Beautiful: Diversity on the Catwalk (Touring)

Start Date 23 May 2019
End Date 13 October 2019
Venue National Museum of Scotland
Location Edinburgh, UK
Curator Georgina Ripley
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins with large artwork in background

2014

Recollect Shoes

Start Date 29 November 2014
End Date 09 July 2015
Venue Powerhouse Museum
Location Sydney, Australia
Curator Melanie Pitkin
Exhibition display of shoes

2015

Recollect Underwear

Start Date 28 March 2015
End Date 19 July 2015
Venue Powerhouse Museum
Location Sydney, Australia
Curator Glynis Jones
Designer Katherine Bond

2018

Fabric in Fashion

Start Date 04 December 2018
End Date 11 May 2019
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA
Curator Elizabeth Way
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2014

An American Master of Inventive Design

Start Date 17 May 2014
End Date 14 September 2014
Venue SCAD Museum of Art
Location Savannagh, Georgia USA
Curator Andre Leon Talley
Exhibition display of dress

2016

Necklace for an Elephant and Other Stories: The Working Lives of David Poston

Start Date 12 February 2016
End Date 26 March 2016
Venue Dovecot Studios
Location Edinburgh, UK
Curator Kate Grenyer
Exhibition display cases of jewellery

2009

MARI FUNAKI, WORKS 1992 – 2009

Start Date 27 June 2009
End Date 18 October 2009
Venue Art Gallery of Western Australia
Location Perth, Australia

1994

Japanese Design: A Survey Since 1950

Start Date 25 September 1994
End Date 20 November 1994
Venue Philadelphia Museum of Art
Location Philadelphia, USA
Curator Felice Fischer and Kathryn Bloom Hiesinger

2017

Undressed:
A brief history of underwear (Touring)

Start Date 29 April 2017
End Date 30 July 2017
Venue Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art
Location St. Petersburg, Russia
Curator Edwina Ehrmann

1986

Modern Jewelry, 1964-1984: The Helen Williams Drutt Collection

Start Date 01 November 1986
End Date 01 February 1987
Venue Philadelphia Museum of Art
Location Philadelphia, USA
Curator Philadelphia Museum of Art
Designer Darrel Sewell

2003

Ladies’ Choice: American Women’s Fashion 1950–1965

Start Date 06 June 2003
End Date 16 May 2004
Venue Philadelphia Museum of Art
Location Philadelphia, USA
Curator Kristina Haugland

2020

Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams (Touring)

Start Date 28 July 2020
End Date 04 October 2020
Venue Long Museum (West Bund)
Location Shanghai, China
Curator Oriole Cullen
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

2017

Access + Ability

Start Date 15 December 2017
End Date 03 September 2018
Venue Cooper Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Design Museum
Location New York, USA
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Jewelry of Ideas: Gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection

Start Date 10 November 2017
End Date 28 March 2018
Venue Cooper Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Design Museum
Location New York, USA
Exhibition display of jewellery in cases

The House of Dior: Seventy Years of Haute Couture

Start Date 27 August 2017
End Date 07 November 2017
Venue National Gallery of Victoria
Location Melbourne, Australia
Room view of exhibition display of dress on open display plinths

Jewellery: Designs in Print and Drawing

Start Date 31 July 2017
End Date 29 November 2017
Venue Rijksmuseum
Location Amsterdam, Netherlands

Dressed for Sports – From Bloomers to MAMILs

Start Date 01 June 2017
End Date 20 August 2017
Venue Textil Museet
Location Boras, Sweden

2018

Margiela/ Galliera 1989-2009

Start Date 03 March 2018
End Date 15 July 2018
Venue Palais Galliera
Location Paris, France
Curator Alexandre Samson
Artistic Director Martin Margiela
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins opposite each other with store front display in background

2017

Balenciaga, L’Oeuvre au Noir

Start Date 08 March 2017
End Date 16 July 2017
Venue Musée Bourdelle, Palais Galliera
Location Paris, France
Curator Véronique Belloir
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins in black framed by metal surrounds

2018

Azzedine Alaïa:
The Couturier

Start Date 10 May 2018
End Date 07 October 2018
Venue The Design Museum
Location London, UK
Curator Mark Wilson
Co-Curator Azzedine Alaïa
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2016

The Vulgar:
Fashion Redefined

Start Date 13 October 2016
End Date 05 February 2017
Venue The Barbican
Location London, UK
Curator Adam Phillips and Judith Clark
Designer Judith Clark
Production Designer Sam Collins
A display of two female and one male mannequins, dressed in pale garments emphasising the attributes of the physical body

Fordlandia

Start Date 22 September 2016
End Date 10 December 2016
Venue Fashion Space Gallery
Location London, UK
Curator Ligaya Salazar
Exhibition display of chairs and coffee table underneath a large anglepoise lamp

Scraps

Start Date 23 September 2016
End Date 16 April 2017
Venue Cooper Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Design Museum
Location New York, USA
Exhibition display of garments suspended in the air

Laboratory 12

Start Date 22 April 2016
End Date 15 July 2016
Venue Fashion Space Gallery
Location London, UK
Curator Benjamin John Hall
Designer Steven Legget
Graphic Designer Nikos Georgopoulos
Exhibition display of shoes on plinths

2019

The Traphagen School: Fostering American Fashion

Start Date 05 March 2019
End Date 30 March 2019
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA
Curator Graduate students in the Fashion Institute of Technology’s MA program in Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice
With the support of Sarah Byrd, Keren Ben-Horin, Emma McClendon, and Elizabeth Way
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Non-Stick Nostalgia: Y2K Retrofuturism in Contemporary Jewelry

Start Date 21 March 2019
End Date 21 July 2019
Venue Museum of Arts and Design
Location New York, USA
Curator Kellie Riggs
Designer Design consultation by Misha Kahn
With the support of Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy
Secured for the Museum by Barbara Paris Gifford.
Exhibition display of jewellery mounted on wall and in case

2012

Fashion and Technology

Start Date 04 December 2012
End Date 08 May 2013
Venue Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology
Location New York, USA
Curator Ariele Elia and Emma McClendon

Leather: Second Skin

Start Date 23 November 2012
End Date 22 January 2013
Venue The Fashion Space Gallery
Location London, UK
Curator Leanne Wierzba and Gemma Williams
Exhibition display of leather accessories

The Craftsmanship of JANTAMINIAU

Start Date 27 September 2012
End Date 27 January 2013
Venue Textiel Museum
Location Tilburg, Netherlands
Designer Dries Otten
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins above folded wooden deckchair frames

Framed! Contemporary Eyewear in Fashion

Start Date 12 September 2012
End Date 03 November 2012
Venue Fashion Space Gallery
Location London, UK
Curator Leanne Wierzba and Gemma Williams
Exhibition display of eyewear

Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion

Start Date 28 July 2012
End Date 08 October 2012
Venue Museum of Contemporary Art
Location Tokyo, Japan

New Fashion: Interventions in Materials and Techniques

Start Date 16 February 2012
End Date 21 April 2012
Venue Fashion Space Gallery
Location London, UK
Curator Leanne Wierzba and Gemma Williams
Devised by Magdalene Keaney
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2014

Iris van Herpen (touring)

Start Date 23 May 2014
End Date 28 September 2014
Venue Textil Museet
Location Boras, Sweden
Curator Sue-an van der Zijpp and Mark Wilson
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2019

Pierre Cardin: Future Fashion

Start Date 20 July 2019
End Date 05 January 2020
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, USA
Curator Matthew Yokobosky
Designer Matthew Yokobosky
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins with large artwork in background

2013

Head On

Start Date 06 February 2013
End Date 23 February 2013
Venue Fashion Space Gallery
Location London, UK
Curator Leanne Wierzba and Gemma Williams
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins with headwear

2010

30 Years of Pineapple by Debbie Moore

Start Date 18 January 2010
End Date 24 February 2010
Venue Fashion and Textile Museum
Location London, England

Yves Saint Laurent: Retrospective

Start Date 11 March 2010
End Date 29 August 2010
Venue Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent at the Petit Palais
Location Paris, France
Curator Florence Müller & Farid Chenoune
Designer agence NC, Nathalie Crinière
Exhibition display of dress

2013

Iris Van Herpen

Start Date 15 June 2013
End Date 13 April 2014
Venue The Museum for Lace and Fashion/ Cité Internationale de la Dentelle et de la Mode de Calais,
Location Calais, France
Curator Anne-Claire Laronde and Shazia Boucher

2010

Eco Fashion: Going Green

Start Date 26 May 2010
End Date 13 November 2010
Venue The Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology
Location New York, USA
Curator Jennifer Farley and Colleen Hill, along with Tiffany Webber

Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion (Touring)

Start Date 15 October 2010
End Date 06 February 2011
Venue KCI at the Barbican Art Gallery
Location London, England
Curator Kate Bush, Barbican. Akiko Fukai, Kyoto Costume Institute
Exhibition display of mannequins dressed in red reaching up to red drapes

2011

Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion (Touring)

Start Date 4 March 2011
End Date 19 June 2011
Venue Haus der Kunst
Location Munich, Germany
Designer Sou Fujimoto

Yohji Yamamoto

Start Date 12 March 2011
End Date 10 June 2011
Venue Victoria & Albert Museum
Location London, England
Curator Ligaya Salazar

Madame Grès: La Couture à l’Oeuvre (Madame Grès: Couture at Work)

Start Date 25 March 2011
End Date 24 July 2011
Venue Musée Galliera at the Musée Bourdelle
Location Paris, France
Curator Olivier Saillard
Exhibition display of two dressed mannequins surrounded by sculpture

Material World

Start Date 22 April 2011
End Date 6 February 2012
Venue Indianapolis Museum of Art
Location Indianapolis, USA

Het Nieuwe Ambacht – Iris van Herpen (The New Craft. Iris van Herpen and her Inspiration)

Start Date 29 June 2011
End Date 9 October 2011
Venue Centraal Museum
Location Utrecht, The Netherlands

2014

Visionary Knitwear

Start Date 19 September 2014
End Date 18 January 2015
Venue Fashion and Textile Museum
Location London, UK
Curator Sandy Black
Exhibition display of knitwear

1973

The 10s, 20s, 30s:
Inventive Clothes

Start Date December 1973
End Date September 1974
Venue Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location New York, USA
Curator Stella Blum
Special Consultant Diana Vreeland