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2024

Collecting Sue Clowes

Start Date 15 November 2024
End Date 18 January 2025
Venue The Winchester Gallery
Location Winchester, UK
Curator Shaun Cole with collector Mikey Bean
Two rows of mannequins all wearing a mixture of male and female clothing in hues of black, red, yellow, and brown.

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
Curatorial Advisor Gannit Ankorias
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

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
Curator Corinne ter Assatouroff, Caroline Esgain, Martine Vrebos
Exhibition display of 20th century gowns

2016

Fringes of Beauty

Start Date 03 December 2016
End Date 28 May 2017
Venue Textiel Museum
Location Tilburg, Netherlands

Making and Unmaking

Start Date 09 June 2016
End Date 18 September 2016
Venue Camden Arts Centre
Location London, UK
Curator Duro Olowu 

2024

State of Fashion Biennale 2024: Ties that Bind

Start Date 17 May 2024
End Date 30 June 2024
Venue State of Fashion
Location Arnhem, Netherlands
Curator Rachel Dedman and Louise Bennetts
Colourful male and female mannequins displayed in a circle

2021

Social Fabric: Stories from the Worn Archive

Start Date 05 June 2021
End Date 06 June 2021
Venue Arbour Youth Centre
Location London, UK
Curator Pa/Do Curatorial
Installation in hues of dark blue, and pale pink. Several flat lays of installations placed around the floor.

2024

Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art

Start Date 13 February 2024
End Date 26 May 2024
Venue The Barbican
Location London,UK
Curator The Barbican, London and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Blue woven fabrics of different shapes and patterns sewed together

2023

The Fabric of Democracy: Propaganda Textiles from the French Revolution to Brexit

Start Date 29 September 2023
End Date 03 March 2024
Venue Fashion and Textile Museum
Location London, UK
Curator Amber Butchart

Gathering

Start Date 29 March 2023
End Date 31 July 2024
Venue Textile Museum of Canada
Location Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Curator Roxane Shaughnessy
Senior Manager Leah Sanchez
Curatorial Advisor Devyani Saltzman
Display of shoes and accessories

2020

Model Clothing

Start Date 29 June 2020
End Date 06 December 2020
Venue Mucem
Location Marseille, France
Curator Isabelle Crampes and Coline Zellal
Designer Renaud Perrin
Graphics Géraldine Fohr

2005

Wearing Propaganda: Textiles on the Home Front in Japan, Britain, and the United States, 1931-1945

Start Date 18 November 2005
End Date 12 February 2006
Venue Bard Graduate Center Gallery
Location New York, USA
Curator Jacqueline M. Atkins

2023

Textile Masters to the World: the Global Desire for Indian Cloth

Start Date 24 March 2023
End Date 24 January 2025
Venue Asian Civilisations Museum
Location Singapore
Gallery view showing dresses and textile samples.

Geometrically Wired. IO Van Oostveldt: Between Clothing and Art

Start Date 25 February 2023
End Date 30 July 2023
Venue MoMu
Location Antwerp, Belgium
Curator Romy Cockx
Exhibition view. In the front are silver steps holding up black and white prints of IO Van Oostveldt, behind which are examples of her designs.

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

2017

The Secret Life of Textiles: Synthetic Materials

Start Date 06 March 2017
End Date 25 September 2017
Venue Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location New York, USA
Curator Sarah Scaturro
Designer Fabiana Weinburg
Co-Curator Leanne Tonkin
Gallery view showing four dresses and a display of shoes, hats and glasses against a pink backdrop. Above the accessories case is 2D media - posters, illustrations and magazine excerpts, alongside two mini-dresses.

2023

Andy Warhol: the Textiles

Start Date 31 March 2023
End Date 10 September 2023
Venue Fashion and Textile Museum
Location London, UK
Curator Geoffrey Rayner and Richard Chamberlain
A row of prom-style dresses, short-sleeved shirt and 50s dress on display on tailor's dummies. Each dummy stands on individual square black plinths in front of a black wall.

2019

Tracking Talents

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

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

2019

Vera Paints a Scarf: The Art and Design of Vera Neumann

Start Date 08 August 2019
End Date 26 January 2020
Venue Museum of Arts and Design
Location New York, U.S.A
Curator Elissa Auther
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2023

Generation Paper: A Fashion Phenom of the 1960s

Start Date 18 March 2023
End Date 27 August 2027
Venue Museum of Arts and Design
Location New York, U.S.A
Curator Elissa Auther

2022

Ribbons by Matty Bovan

Start Date 30 November 2022
End Date 05 March 2023
Venue NOW Gallery
Location London, U.K.
Curator Matty Bovan and Jemima Burrill
Gallery view showing a large, colourful knitted structure which visitors can sit inside, made of ribbons.

2018

Rinse, Repeat: Richard Malone

Start Date 28 November 2018
End Date 03 February 2019
Venue NOW Gallery
Location London, U.K.
Curator Richard Malone and Jemima Burrill
View of the gallery. Geometrically patterned garments are hung by white rope in the centre of the gallery. Large projection screens of the clothes are on the left, near some bench-style stations with headphones.

2015

Floating I Falling I Drowning I Flying: An Introspective of Process

Start Date 21 May 2015
End Date 09 August 2015
Venue NOW Gallery
Location London, U.K.
Curator Phoebe English and Jemima Burrill
A close-up view of a geometrically-constructed dress in construction.

2020

Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto

Start Date 01 October 2020
End Date 14 March 2021
Venue Palais Galliera
Location Paris, France
Curator Miren Arzalluz, Véronique Belloir and Marie-Laure Gutton
Designer Ciel Architects
Artistic Director Olivier Saillard
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Inside the Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk

Start Date 27 August 2020
End Date 25 October 2020
Venue V&A Museum
Location London, UK
Curator Anna Jackson and Josephine Rout
Title to exhibition and three kimonos on display

2023

Yves Saint Laurent: Transparencies

Start Date 24 June 2023
End Date 12 November 2023
Venue City of Lace and Fashion
Location Calais, France
Curator Anne-Claire Laronde, Elsa Janssen, Shazia Boucher and Domitille Éblé
Sound designer Salvador Breed

2021

Global Wardrobe

Start Date 09 October 2021
End Date 16 January 2022
Venue Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Location The Hague, Netherlands
Curator Madelief Hohé

2017

Dentelles De Mode, Mode Des Dentelles (Fashion Lace, Lace Fashion)

Start Date 19 May 2017
End Date 24 December 2017
Venue Musée de la Visitation
Location Paris, France
Exhibition display of lace suspended in the air

2023

The Offbeat Sari

Start Date 19 May 2023
End Date 17 September 2023
Venue Design Museum
Location London, UK
Curator Priya Khanchandani
Seven saris are displayed on a white tiered plinths in a variety of poses. The sari at the back is made from an elongated piece of yellow fabric which is draped on two drawers above the display.

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

2004

Beirut to Baghdad: Communities, Collecting and Culture

Start Date 17 June 2004
End Date 20 February 2005
Venue Powerhouse Museum
Location Sydney, Australia

2021

Sprawl

Start Date 25 November 2021
End Date 30 December 2021
Venue ModeMuseum
Location Hasselt, Belgium
Curator Dominique Nzeyimana

Pagne Africain: a pan-African fabric exhibition by Black History Month Belgium

Start Date 02 March 2021
End Date 25 April 2021
Venue ModeMuseum
Location Hasselt, Belgium
Exhibition view of gallery showing dresses with various African cloths and prints.

2017

Across Japan

Start Date 04 March 2017
End Date 03 September 2017
Venue ModeMuseum
Location Hasselt, Belgium
Curator Karolien De Clippel
A pink dress with a matching draped cape and fascinator stands next to a 3D printed honeycomb-patterned dress and a black dress in front a black framed structure.

2011

Prints! in Fashion and Costume History

Start Date 25 June 2011
End Date 08 January 2012
Venue ModeMuseum
Location Hasselt, Belgium
Two dresses and a coat are worn on three white tailor's dummy's in front of a wall with varying print patterns. More dresses are on display in the background.

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

2016

Art Textiles: Marian Clayden

Start Date 11 March 2025
End Date 17 April 2025
Venue Fashion and Textile Museum
Location London, UK
Curator Mary Schoeser

2019

Weavers of the Clouds: Textile Arts of Peru

Start Date 21 June 2019
End Date 08 September 2019
Venue Fashion and Textile Museum
Location London, U.K.
Curator Claudia Trosso, supported by Martin Morales
Six Peruvian outfits displayed in pairs on mannequins on white plinths against sheer grey material

2022

150 Years of the Royal School of Needlework: Crown to Catwalk

Start Date 01 April 2022
End Date 04 September 2022
Venue Fashion and Textile Museum
Location London, U.K.
Curator Dennis Nothdruft in collaboration with Dr Susan Kay-Williams

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.

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

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

2017

Shading. Hats in the Surreal Key

Start Date 18 November 2017
End Date 10 December 2017
Venue Museo Del Traje
Location Madrid, Spain
Designer Susana Loureda
hats mounted in a corridor

2016

Cambrian Mountain Wool

Start Date 09 January 2016
End Date 27 November 2016
Venue National Wool Museum of Wales
Location Dre-fach Felindre, Wales

2019

Michael Cinco: Impalpable Couture

Start Date 15 October 2019
End Date 12 January 2020
Venue SCAD Museum of Art
Location Savannagh, Georgia USA
Curator Rafael Gomes
Exhibition display with 12 mannequins displaying Michael Cinco garments.

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.

2017

Printed Fashions: Textiles for Clothing and Home

Start Date 25 March 2017
End Date 28 February 2019
Venue Colonial Williamsburg
Location Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
Curator Linda Baumgarten
Exhibition with papered wall of prints from a swatch book in the museum collection.

2006

The Fabric of Cultures: Fashion Identity: Globalization

Start Date 01 January 2006
End Date 14 February 2006
Venue Godwin–Ternbach Museum
Location New York, USA
mannequins on display

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.

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.

2013

Paisley and Plaid: Recurring Patterns in Fashion

Start Date 27 July 2013
End Date 03 December 2013
Venue Southworks Antiques
Location Ontario, Canada
Exhibition with four mannequins displaying period dresses with printed, embroidered or woven paisley.

2019

Fast Fashion/Slow Art

Start Date 08 August 2019
End Date 15 December 2019
Venue The Luther W. Brady Art Gallery at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design
Location Washington D.C., USA
Curator Bibiana Obler and Phyllis Rosenzweig
Exhibition with two television screens and doorway to another room.

2009

Fashionably Wrapped: The Influence of Kashmir Shawls

Start Date 18 November 2009
End Date 04 July 2010
Venue Textile Museum of Canada
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Curator Natalia Nekrassova
Exhibition with blue wall with textiles hanging from the wall, a red plinths holding two mannequins displaying garments and a wooden display cabinet.

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

From the Imperial Theater: Chinese Opera Costumes of the 18th and 19th Centuries

Start Date 25 June 2016
End Date 09 October 2017
Venue Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location New York, USA
Curator Pengliang Lu and Denise Patry Leidy
garments displayed in glass vitrines

1974

For Heads and Toes

Start Date 13 November 1974
End Date 31 March 1975
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, USA
Curator

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

You Wenfeng: Fish Skin Clothing

Start Date 18 April 2007
Venue Textile Museum of Canada
Location Ontario, Canada
Curator Natalia Nekrassova
vitrine display of footwear

1997

Women’s Garments from Mexico and Guatemala

Start Date 22 July 1997
End Date 01 January 1970
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, USA

1980

Peasant Prints: Textiles from Czechoslovakia & Russia

Start Date 30 January 1980
End Date 31 August 1980
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, USA
single mannequin in an ensemble

1972

Hats Unlimited

Start Date 11 March 1972
End Date 09 April 1972
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, USA
Curator
Vitrine display of hats

1974

Ecclesiastical Vestments

Start Date 04 December 1974
End Date 26 January 1975
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, USA

2016

Disguise: Masks and Global African Art

Start Date 26 April 2016
End Date 18 September 2016
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, USA
Curator Kevin Dumouchelle
exhibition display of mannequins

1986

An American Eye for Style

Start Date 01 December 1986
End Date 29 June 1987
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location New York, USA
Curator Costumes and Textiles department
single mannequin in an ensemble

2022

Kaffe Fassett: The Power of the Pattern

Start Date 22 September 2022
End Date 12 March 2023
Venue Fashion and Textile Museum
Location London, UK

2021

Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto (Touring)

Start Date 04 December 2021
End Date 01 January 1970
Venue National Gallery of Victoria
Location Melbourne, Australia
Curator Miren Arzalluz and Véronique Belloir
Artistic Director Olivier Saillard
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

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

2007

Splendeurs Dévoilées (Splendors Unveiled)

Start Date 14 May 2007
End Date 07 October 2007
Venue Musée de la Visitation
Location Paris, France
Curator Gérard Picaud and Jean Foisselon

2021

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

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

2010

Japanese Sashiko Textiles

Start Date 31 July 2010
End Date 25 September 2010
Venue Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
Location Plymouth, UK

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.

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

Imagine … Lace at Waddesdon Manor

Start Date 26 March 2014
End Date 26 October 2014
Venue Waddesdon Manor
Location Buckinghamshire, UK

2021

Long Live Fashion

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

Broderie (Embroidery)

Start Date 01 January 1970
End Date 19 December 2021
Venue Musée de la Mode
Location Albi, Tarn, Occitanie, France

2009

Embellished: The Art of Fabulous Fabrics

Start Date 14 November 2009
End Date 23 April 2025
Venue Harris Museum and Art Gallery
Location Preston, UK
Curator Mary Schoeser

2010

Elegance: Two Hundred Years of Dressing to Impress

Start Date 10 March 2010
End Date 31 October 2010
Venue Killerton House
Location Devon, UK

2018

Embroidery: The Thread of History

Start Date 05 October 2018
End Date 05 January 2019
Venue Winterthur Museum
Location Winterthur, Delaware, USA

2014

En Tous Points Parfaits (In Every Way Perfect)

Start Date 05 May 2014
End Date 24 December 2014
Venue Musée de la Visitation
Location Moulins, France
Curator Gérard Picaud and Jean Foisselon

2019

Frank Lloyd Wright Textiles: The Taliesin Line, 1955–60

Start Date 20 May 2019
End Date 27 September 2019
Venue Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location New York, USA

2014

Ganseys

Start Date 08 November 2014
End Date 28 February 2015
Venue Aberdeen Maritime Museum
Location Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.

2018

Object Journeys Fashioning Africa

Start Date 31 March 2018
End Date 31 March 2019
Venue Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
Location Brighton, UK
Curator Edith Ojo and Tshepo Skwambane

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

2015

Digital Disturbances

Start Date 11 September 2015
End Date 12 December 2015
Venue Fashion Space Gallery
Location London, UK
Curator  Leanne Wierzba
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2001

Designers do denim

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

2019

Sustainable Thinking

Start Date 12 April 2019
End Date 08 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

2012

Sacrées Soieries! (Sacred Silks)

Start Date 12 May 2012
End Date 22 December 2012
Venue Musée de la Visitation
Location Moulins, France
Curator Gérard Picaud and Jean Foisselon
Exhibition display of silks

2019

Beautiful Lace & Carine Gilson

Start Date 10 July 2019
End Date 19 April 2020
Venue Musée Mode & Dentelle
Location Brussels, Belgium
Curator Caroline Esgain
Designer Antigone Aristidou
Formerly Musée du Costume et de la dentelle
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

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

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

2017

Tessuto e Ricchezza A Firenze Nel Trecento: Lana, Seta e Pittura
(Fabric and Wealth in Florence in the 14th Century: Wool, Silk and Painting)

Start Date 05 December 2017
End Date 18 March 2018
Venue Gallerie Dell'accademia Firenze
Location Florence, Italy
Curator Cecilie Hollberg
Exhibition display of arch way covered in fresco painting

2019

Cross Colours: Black Fashion in the 20th Century

Start Date 25 September 2019
End Date 23 August 2020
Venue California African American Museum
Location Los Angeles, USA
Curator Tyree Boyd-Pates and Taylor Bythewood-Porter
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2021

Amanecer: Diseñando Desde Torrekua
(Sunrise: Designs from Torrekua)

Start Date 06 February 2021
End Date 28 February 2021
Venue Jantziaren Zentroa
Location Gipuzkoa, Spain
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

2015

Whitework Embroideries

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