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2019

Alexander McQueen: Roses

Start Date
30 November 2019
End Date
03 May 2020
Venue
Alexander McQueen Flagship Store
Location
27 Bond Street, London, UK
Curator
Sarah Burton and Sarah Mower
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2024

Protusion: a collaboration with the artist Samuel Eyles

Start Date
06 September 2024
End Date
19 October 2024
Venue
Madsen Sylvester Studio
Location
Ramsgate, Kent
Curator
Cyana Madsen
Artist
Samuel Eyles
A painted figure with exaggerated features is positioned behind a table with a bowl, the figure is grey and red.

2025

Covet: Vintage & the Collector

Start Date
28 March 2025
End Date
06 April 2025
Venue
Madsen Sylvester Studio
Location
Ramsgate, Kent
Curator
Cyana Madsen and Anthony Sylvester
A pair of cord yellow trousers with a roaring yellow and black striped tiger on the front.

2024

Curare, or toward a studio ethos

Start Date
28 July 2024
End Date
04 September 2024
Venue
Madsen Sylvester Studio
Location
Ramsgate, Kent
Curator
Cyana Madsen
A pair of blue nitrile gloves on a white cloth. To the right, an open archival storage box lined with tissue paper is ready for use.

Enmesh

Start Date
02 December 2024
End Date
04 January 2025
Venue
Madsen Sylvester Studio
Location
Ramsgate, Kent
Curator
Alexia Marmara
There is a long black boot with laces, and vintage photographs.

2025

Jamaica Fashion Guild Ltd: Designing Paradise

Start Date
23 February 2025
End Date
02 March 2025
Venue
Madsen Sylvester Studio
Location
Ramsgate, Kent
Curator
Elli Michaela Young

2019

Manolo Blahnik: The Art of Shoes

Start Date
16 May 2018
End Date
06 January 2019
Venue
Bata Shoe Museum
Location
Toronto, Canada
exhibition display of shoes in several glass cases in gallery

2023

Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery

Start Date
08 July 2023
End Date
29 October 2023
Venue
Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge
Location
Cambridge, UK
Curator
Rachel Dedman

2015

Ya Hafeth Ya Ameen

Start Date
18 November 2015
End Date
28 February 2017
Venue
Tiraz Centre
Location
Amman, Jordan

Golden Threads of Bethlehem

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

2017

Woven: the Art of Traditional Weavings in Jordan

Start Date
28 November 2017
End Date
06 April 2018
Venue
Tiraz Centre
Location
Amman, Jordan

2021

Syrian Glory: Costume Exhibition in Honour of a Nation

Start Date
01 January 2021
End Date
31 August 2023
Venue
Tiraz Centre
Location
Amman, Jordan

2010

Socks: Between You and Your Shoes

Start Date
07 April 2010
End Date
01 April 2011
Venue
Bata Shoe Museum
Location
Toronto, Canada
Curator
Elizabeth Semmelhack

2014

Changing Times – Fashion Inspired by 1914-1918

Start Date
14 June 2014
End Date
31 August 2014
Venue
Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle
Location
Teesdale, UK

2017

The Power of Plastics: Reshaping Midcentury Fashion

Start Date
29 August 2017
End Date
07 January 2017
Venue
The Esse Purse Museum
Location
Arkansas, USA

2018

Cutting Edge

Start Date
01 May 2018
End Date
20 August 2018
Venue
The Esse Purse Museum
Location
Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

1987

Nina Gelardi: Fashions in Clay and Leather

Start Date
31 March 1987
End Date
03 May 1987
Venue
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Location
Indianapolis, U.S.A

2019

Tracking Talents

Start Date
07 June 2019
End Date
04 August 2019
Venue
Kunstgewerbemuseum
Location
Berlin, Germany

2008

Une Mille et Une Nuits (A Thousand and One Nights)

Start Date
17 May 2008
End Date
11 November 2008
Venue
Centre National du Costume et de la Scène
Location
Moulins, France

2011

The Unusual: Shapes and Materials of the Stage Costume

Start Date
29 January 2011
End Date
15 May 2011
Venue
Centre National du Costume et de la Scène
Location
Moulins, France
Curator
Noëlle Giret
Designer
Alain Batifoulier and Simon de Tovar

1986

Plastic, Rubber and Leather: Alternative Dress and Decoration

Start Date
22 March 1986
End Date
02 November 1986
Venue
National Gallery of Australia
Location
Kamberri/Canberra, Australia

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.

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

2005

En Vogue! 18th-century fashions from France and the Netherlands

Start Date
01 September 2025
End Date
04 December 2005
Venue
Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Location
Netherlands

2019

Top Floor

Start Date
13 April 2019
End Date
08 September 2019
Venue
Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Location
The Hague, Netherlands
Curator
Philip Akkerman
Gallery view showing three dressed mannequins on low yellow plinths, dissplayed alongside prints, vases, and display cases of objects.

2012

Rejina Pyo: Structural Mode

Start Date
29 September 2012
End Date
20 January 2013
Venue
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Location
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Curator
José Teunissen

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

2002

The Adventures of Aluminium: From Jewellery to Jets

Start Date
18 October 2002
End Date
19 January 2003
Venue
Design Museum
Location
London, UK
Designer
David Adjaye Architects

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

2022

Bags: Inside Out

Start Date
23 December 2022
End Date
14 May 2023
Venue
ModeMuseum
Location
Hasselt, Belgium
Curator
Lucia Savi
A display of seven handbags, including one with fake french fries, sit against a black backdrop.

2019

Piecemakers

Start Date
11 October 2019
End Date
11 January 2020
Venue
Fashion Space Gallery, London College of Fashion
Location
London, England
Curator
Susanna Cordner
Three steel bench stations exhibiting 2D and 3D objects in front of a blue and white patterned textile hung next to a sign saying 'EMBELLISHMENTS'

2009

Undercover: The Evolution of Underwear

Start Date
12 June 2009
End Date
27 September 2009
Venue
Fashion and Textile Museum
Location
London, England
Exhibition display of mannequins in underwear

2015

Liberty in Fashion

Start Date
09 October 2015
End Date
28 February 2016
Venue
Fashion and Textile Museum
Location
London, UK
Curator
Dennis Nothdruft
A group of eight dresses displayed on mannequins and one coat on a tailor's dummy, all in contrasting Liberty prints

2019

The Gold Standard: Glittering Footwear from Around the Globe

Start Date
12 August 2019
End Date
19 December 2019
Venue
Bata Shoe Museum
Location
Toronto, Canada
Curator
Elizabeth Semmelhack

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

2022

Homo Faber. Details: Genealogies of ornament

Start Date
10 April 2022
End Date
01 May 2022
Venue
Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Location
Venice, Italy
Curator
Judith Clark
Designer
Judith Clark with Sam Collins
Exhibition with mannequins on a plinth

1993

Ruth Scheuing: Anatomy of the Suit/Geometry of the Body

Start Date
05 August 1993
End Date
05 September 1993
Venue
Textile Museum of Canada
Location
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Exhibition with three deconstructed suit jackets displayed on the wall.

2013

Shine

Start Date
27 March 2013
End Date
02 September 2013
Venue
Textile Museum of Canada
Location
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Curator
Natalia Nekrassova and Sarah Quinton
Exhibition with traditional garments on display.

2017

Scraps: Fashion, Textiles and Creative Reuse

Start Date
02 September 2017
End Date
07 January 2018
Venue
The Textile Museum at The George Washington Museum
Location
Washington D.C., USA
Curator
Camille Ann Brewer
Exhibition display with fabric swatches and garments.

2019

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.

Leather, Lace and Luster

Start Date
23 July 2019
End Date
02 February 2020
Venue
SCAD Museum of Art
Location
Savannah, Georgia USA
Exhibition with five mannequins displaying black garments; one on a plinth on the floor; two on mirrored plinths next to wall; and two mounted to the wall.

2015

Fashioning the Body at Brad Graduate Centre Gallery

Start Date
03 April 2015
End Date
26 July 2015
Venue
Bard Graduate Center Gallery
Location
New York, USA
Curator
Dr. Denis Bruna
Exhibition with black walls and with glass display cases against the wall with 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

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

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

2008

Calder Jewelry

Start Date
09 December 2008
End Date
01 March 2009
Venue
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location
New York, USA
Curator
Jane Adlin

2011

Traditional Jewellery and Dress From The Balkans

Start Date
01 January 2011
End Date
11 September 2011
Venue
British Museum
Location
London, UK

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

Interview with a Shoe

Start Date
23 January 2010
End Date
21 March 2010
Venue
Northampton Museum and Art Gallery
Location
Northampton, UK

2017

Compositions Dévoilées: Vues Sur Les Collections (Unveiled Compositions: Views Of The Collections)

Start Date
21 October 2017
End Date
01 December 2020
Venue
Musée des Tissus de Lyon
Location
Lyon, France
Curator
MAXIMILIEN DURAND AND CLAIRE BERTHOMMIER

2021

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

2014

An Adaptable Trade: The Jewellery Quarter at War 1914–1918

Start Date
14 June 2014
End Date
27 June 2015
Venue
Museum of the Jewellery Quarter
Location
Birmingham, UK
Exhibition display of jewellery in cases

2011

Minor. Silver + Gold

Start Date
01 September 2011
End Date
08 January 2012
Venue
The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe
Location
Hamburg, Germany

2014

Elegance in an Age of Crisis: Fashions of the 1930s

Start Date
07 February 2014
End Date
19 April 2014
Venue
The Museum at FIT
Location
New York, USA
Curator
Patricia Mears and G. Bruce Boyer
Exhibition display of mannequins in swimming costumes

2001

Designers do denim

Start Date
06 April 2001
End Date
17 April 2001
Venue
Centraal Museum
Location
Utrecht, The Netherlands

2013

The Cheapside Hoard: London’s Lost Jewels

Start Date
13 October 2013
End Date
27 April 2014
Venue
Museum of London
Location
London, UK
Curator
Ben Kelly
Exhibition display of cabinets containing jewels

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

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

2015

Le Génie De La Fabrique (The Engineering Of The Factory)

Start Date
22 May 2015
End Date
31 December 2018
Venue
Musée des Tissus de Lyon
Location
Lyon, France
Curator
Maximilien Durand and Claire Berthommier

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

2015

Fully Fashioned: The Pringle of Scotland Story

Start Date
10 April 2015
End Date
16 August 2015
Venue
National Museum of Scotland
Location
Edinburgh, UK
Curator
Georgina Ripley

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

Whitework Embroideries

Start Date
01 May 2015
End Date
01 December 2015
Venue
Royal School of Needlework, Hampton Court Palace
Location
Molesey, UK

2012

Study, Design and Create

Start Date
28 January 2012
End Date
15 April 2012
Venue
The Bowes Museum
Location
County Durham, UK

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

2014

Collectie 02(5): 25 Years Modemuseum Hasselt

Start Date
01 March 2014
End Date
14 September 2014
Venue
Modemuseum
Location
Hasselt, Belgium
Curator
Kenneth Ramaekers
Designer
Lien Wauters
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2012

Leather, Fur and Feather

Start Date
21 January 2012
Venue
Provost Skene’s House
Location
Aberdeen, Scotland

2013

Kaffe Fassett Knitwear

Start Date
08 March 2013
End Date
02 November 2013
Venue
National Wool Museum of Wales
Location
Llandysul, Wales

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

A Dress For All Seasons

Start Date
17 September 2011
End Date
31 December 2011
Venue
Chertsey Museum
Location
Chertsey, 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

2015

The White Shirts Project

Start Date
01 May 2015
End Date
11 July 2015
Venue
Shipley Art Gallery
Location
Newcastle, UK

2014

Teresa Whitfield – Drawing Museum Lace – An Unexpected Look

Start Date
13 September 2014
End Date
07 February 2015
Venue
Salisbury Museum
Location
Salisbury, UK

2013

Taking the Plunge

Start Date
25 May 2013
End Date
01 May 2014
Venue
Snibston Discovery Park
Location
Coalville, UK

2016

Stitch Stitch Stitch

Start Date
10 September 2016
End Date
29 January 2017
Venue
Discovery Museum
Location
Newcastle, UK

2014

Something Blue: Wedding fashions 1914-2014

Start Date
01 August 2014
End Date
27 September 2015
Venue
Platt Hall Gallery of Costume, Manchester Art Gallery
Location
Manchester, UK

2018

Miao Costumes in Guizhou

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

2017

Shoes: Pleasure and Pain (touring)

Start Date
11 April 2017
End Date
13 August 2017
Venue
SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film
Location
Atlanta, USA
Curator
Helen Persson, with Alexandra Sachs and Rafael Gomes
Exhibition display of footwear

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
01 January 1970
Venue
Trowbridge Museum
Location
Trowbridge, UK

2021

Stitched: Regional Dress Across Europe

Start Date
02 February 2021
End Date
19 December 2021
Venue
Kent State University Museum
Location
Kent, USA
Curator
Sara Hume

2013

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

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

Entangled: Fiber to Felt to Fashion

Start Date
08 May 2014
End Date
15 February 2015
Venue
Kent State University Museum
Location
Kent, USA
Curator
Sherry Schofield, Sharon Kilfoyle (guest curators)

2016

Love Thy Denim

Start Date
27 August 2016
End Date
23 October 2016
Venue
Winchester Discovery Centre
Location
Winchester, UK
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins in denim outfits

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

2013

Karl Fritsch Jewellery

Start Date
15 February 2013
End Date
23 June 2013
Venue
Manchester Art Gallery
Location
Manchester, UK
Curator
Jo Bloxham

2019

Kaleidoscope Katrantzou: Mary Katrantzou, 10 Years in Fashion

Start Date
09 April 2019
End Date
22 September 2019
Venue
SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film
Location
Atlanta, USA
Curator
Alexandra Sachs and Rafael Gomes
Exhibition display of dressed mannequin

2013

Henry Poole & Co. Founder of Savile Row: The Art of Bespoke Tailoring and Wool Cloth

Start Date
21 September 2013
End Date
11 May 2014
Venue
The Bowes Museum
Location
County Durham, UK

2019

Form & Function: Shoe Art by Chris Francis

Start Date
13 August 2019
End Date
31 December 2019
Venue
SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film
Location
Atlanta, USA
Curator
Rafael Gomes
Exhibition display of multi-coloured shoe

2017

Lace in Fashion

Start Date
04 February 2017
End Date
01 January 2018
Venue
Fashion Museum Bath
Location
Bath, UK

2020

Bags: Inside Out

Start Date
21 November 2020
End Date
12 September 2021
Venue
V&A
Location
London, UK
Curator
Lucia Savi
Exhibition display of bags

1946

Britain Can Make It

Start Date
01 September 1946
End Date
01 December 1946
Venue
V&A
Location
London, UK
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2014

American Jewelry Design Council – Variations on a Theme: 25 Years of Design

Start Date
24 October 2014
End Date
03 May 2015
Venue
Kent State University Museum
Location
Kent, USA

2015

Shoes: Pleasure and Pain

Start Date
13 June 2015
End Date
31 January 2016
Venue
V&A
Location
London, UK
Curator
Helen Persson
Exhibition display of shoes

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

2008

Magnificence of the Tsars

Start Date
10 December 2008
End Date
29 March 2009
Venue
V&A
Location
London, England
Curator
Svetlana Amelekhina

2017

To Craftsmanship – 2017 Fashion Review

Start Date
01 December 2017
End Date
21 October 2018
Venue
China Silk Museum
Location
Hangzhou, China
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2021

These Shoes Were Made for Walking

Start Date
09 January 2021
End Date
28 February 2021
Venue
Ayers House Museum
Location
Adelaide, Australia