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Dress Up

Start Date
13 April 2024
End Date
02 September 2024
Venue
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Location
Boston,USA
Curator
Theo Tyson, Emily Stoehrer, Rita J. Kaplan, Penny Vinik,and Susan B.
close up of women's torso clothed in white dress with red floral pattern
Yellow fan with adornment
black and white image of backs of heads with a women in hat in middle

Our choice of dress can make a political statement, express a mood, or communicate personal identities. Through more than 100 works from the MFA’s collection including 20th- and 21st-century clothing, jewellery, accessories, illustrations, and photographs, this exhibition explores adornment and its role in the creation of a look.

Jewellery and fashion are given equal attention here; there is no delineation between the two to encourage thinking of jewellery as fashion and fashion as jewellery. Objects with beads, sequins, and sparkle blur the lines between each genre and help visitors consider how and where the two can—and do—intersect.

Images courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Photo by © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos. © Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos.