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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

Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915 celebrates the museum’s groundbreaking acquisition of a major collection of European men’s, women’s, and children’s garments and accessories. The exhibition tells the story of fashion’s aesthetic and technical development from the Age of Enlightenment to World War I. It examines sweeping changes in fashionable dress spanning a period of over two hundred years, and evolutions in luxurious textiles, exacting tailoring techniques, and lush trimmings.

Touring

Les Arts Décoratifs October 2, 2010 to March 27, 2011

Deutsch Historisches Museum in Berlin from April 27 to July 29, 2012

Image Courtesy of LACMA, Los Angeles, USA