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2019

Shape Up: Case Studies in Fashion Making

Start Date 23 September 2019
End Date 08 December 2019
Venue UC Davis Design Museum
Location Davis, California, USA
Curator Adele Zhang
Exhibition display with three mannequins displaying dress and a Kimono hanging from the wall.

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.

Made in France

Start Date 16 March 2019
End Date 22 December 2019
Venue Fashion History Museum
Location Ontario, Canada
Curator Jonathan Walford
Exhibition with mannequins displaying late 1960s fashions by Cardin, Ungaro, and Courreges.

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.

Hats and Pins

Start Date 03 September 2019
End Date 30 December 2019
Venue The Esse Purse Museum
Location Little Rock, Arizona, USA
Exhibition with exhibition poster hanging on the wall and a mannequins displaying lots of hats, that look like a dress.

Guldnakke

Start Date 19 February 2019
End Date 28 July 2019
Venue SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film
Location Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Curator Alexandra Sachs
Exhibition with three images on two walls in a dimly lit room.

French Fashion, Women, and the First World War

Start Date 05 September 2019
End Date 05 January 2020
Venue Bard Graduate Center Gallery
Location New York, USA
Curator Maude Bass-Krueger and Sophie Kurkdjian
Exhibition with plinth surrounded by glass with three mannequins displaying garments and two open books.

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.

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

Fashion Redefined: Miyake, Kawakubo, Yamamoto

Start Date 28 April 2019
End Date 05 January 2020
Venue Newfields Museum
Location Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Curator Niloo Paydar
Exhibition with white walls and graphic decorations with plinths holding mannequins displaying garments.

Fantastical Threads: Costumes at The Rooms

Start Date 01 October 2019
End Date 04 November 2019
Venue The Rooms
Location St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Exhibition display of costume on mannequin

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

Victoria 200

Start Date 13 March 2019
End Date 30 June 2019
Venue Fashion History Museum
Location Ontario, Canada

Duran Lantink: Old Stock

Start Date 13 July 2019
End Date 27 October 2019
Venue Centraal Museum
Location Utrecht, The Netherlands
Designer Duran Lantink
image of various objects in an exhibition installation

Thierry Mugler: Couturissime (Touring)

Start Date 02 March 2019
End Date 28 September 2019
Venue Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Location Montreal, Canada
Curator Thierry-Maxime Loriot
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Silver Screen to Mainstream: American Fashion in the 1930s & ’40s

Start Date 08 April 2019
End Date 21 January 2020
Venue Chicago History Museum
Location Chicago, USA
Curator Virginia Heaven

PURSEonality: A Stylish Handbag History

Start Date 11 October 2019
End Date 30 October 2020
Venue Moravian Museum of Bethlehem
Location Pennsylvania, USA

New Millennium

Start Date 16 October 2019
End Date 19 April 2020
Venue Musée Mode & Dentelle
Location Brussels, Belgium

Grace De Monaco: Princess in Dior

Start Date 27 April 2019
End Date 17 November 2019
Venue Musée Christian Dior
Location Granville, France
Curator Florence Müller and Gwénola Fouilleul
Designer Agence Alighieri
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Treasures from the Palace Museum: The Flourishing of China in the 18th Century

Start Date 15 March 2019
End Date 30 May 2019
Venue Moscow Kremlin Museums
Location Moscow, Russia
Exhibition display of paintings and dress

Gracefully Chic: The Fashions of Philip Hulitar

Start Date 22 July 2019
End Date 20 October 2019
Venue Long Island Museum
Location Long Island, New York, USA
Curator Joshua Ruff

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

Yves Saint Laurent: Les Coulisses De La Haute Couture À Lyon

Start Date 08 November 2019
End Date 07 March 2020
Venue Musée des Tissus de Lyon
Location Marseilles, France
Curator Aurélie Samuel and Esclarmonde Monteil,
Designer NC Agency, Nathalie Crinière
Exhibition display in gallery with mannequin in foreground and background

Dress Code: Are You Playing Fashion? (Touring)

Start Date 09 August 2019
End Date 24 August 2019
Venue The National Museum of Modern Art
Location Kyoto, Japan
Curator Makoto Ishizeki (The Kyoto Costume Institute), Chinatsu Makiguchi (The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto)
Designer DDAA
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Dress Code: Are You Playing Fashion? (Touring)

Start Date 08 December 2019
End Date 23 February 2020
Venue Contemporary Art Museum
Location Kumamoto, Japan
Curator Makoto Ishizeki (The Kyoto Costume Institute), Chinatsu Makiguchi (The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto)

100 Years of Fashion

Start Date 06 April 2019
End Date 08 September 2019
Venue Bailiffgate Museum
Location Alnwick, UK

Body Beautiful:
Diversity on the Catwalk: Touring

In response

Shirley van de Polder: Body Beautiful:
Diversity on the Catwalk: Touring

Dialogues:
130 Years of Lanvin

In response

Leanne Shapton: Dialogues:
130 Years of Lanvin

Water colour of a blue flower and leaves

Tiffany & Co: Vision & Virtuosity

Start Date 23 September 2019
End Date 10 November 2019
Venue Fosun Foundation
Location Huangpu District, Shanghai
Exhibition display, above which is a light in the ceiling

Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech”

Start Date 10 June 2019
End Date 29 September 2019
Venue The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Location Chicago, USA
Curator Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf and Marjorie Susman
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins with illuminated writing 'you're obviously in the wrong place'

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

Start Date 08 August 2019
End Date 06 January 2020
Venue California African American Museum
Location Los Angeles, USA
Curator Elissa Auther
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

The Tuxedo Redefined: Formality, Fluidity, and Femininity

Start Date 11 December 2019
End Date 05 February 2020
Venue New York University (NYU)
Location New York, USA
Curator Costume Studies Masters degree candidates under the direction of Mellissa Huber
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

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

Suit Yourself! 75 Years of Powerful Style

Start Date October 11 2019
End Date 13 March 2020
Venue Drexel University’s Westphal College of Media Arts & Design
Location Philadelphia, PA, USA
Designer
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Six Decades of Victorian Fashion

Start Date April 2019
End Date 2019
Venue Beck Isle Museum
Location Pickering, North Yorkshire, UK.
Exhibition display of dressed mannequin in Victorian dress

Seattle Style: Fashion/Function

Start Date 04 May 2019
End Date 14 October 2019
Venue Museum of History & Industry
Location Seattle, USA
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Philadelphia Store-y: 25 Years of Nicole Miller Philadelphia

Start Date 12 April 2019
End Date 30 August 2019
Venue Drexel University’s Westphal College of Media Arts & Design
Location Philadelphia, PA, USA
Curator Clare Sauro
Designer

Noritaka Tatehana: Refashioning Beauty

Start Date 05 October 2019
End Date 01 December 2019
Venue Portland Japanese Garden
Location Portland, Oregon, USA
Curator Laura J. Mueller and Christina Cacouris
Exhibition display of cut out animal-shaped figures with flowers in background

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

Marche Et Démarche, Une Histoire De La Chaussure (Walking and Gait, A History of Shoes)

Start Date 07 November 2019
End Date 22 March 2020
Venue Musée des Arts Décoratifs
Location Paris, France
Curator Dennis Bruna
Designer Eric Benqué
Exhibition display of shoes

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

Flora

Start Date 13 April 2019
End Date 18 August 2019
Venue Phoenix, USA
Location Phoenix, USA
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Fashion and Feathers in Fashion

Start Date 01 October 2019
End Date 20 January 2020
Venue Cornell University
Location Ithaca, NY, USA
Curator Denise Nicole Green, John Fitzpatrick and Vanya Rohwer
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins in glass case with pattern fabric in background

Costuming The Crown

Start Date 30 March 2019
End Date 05 January 2020
Venue Winterthur Museum
Location Wilmington, Delaware, USA

Comédies Musicales, Les Costumes Font Leur Show! (Musicals, Costumes Make Their Show!)

Start Date December 2019
End Date 28 April 2019
Venue Centre National du Costume de Scene
Location Moulins, France
Curator Delphine Pinasal
Designer Philippine Ordinaire and Olivier Coquet
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

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

Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite

Start Date 04 December 2019
End Date 01 March 2020
Venue Museum of African Diaspora
Location San Fransico, California, USA
Curator Kwame Brathwaite Jr. and Michael Famighetti
Designer Bethany Montagano
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins with portraits in background

Balenciaga y la pintura Española
(Balenciaga and Spanish painting)

Start Date 22 June 2019
End Date 22 September 2019
Venue Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
Location Madrid, Spain
Curator Eloy Martínez de la Pera
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Accents of Style

Start Date 15 November 2019
End Date 02 February 2020
Venue Armani Silos
Location Milan, Italy
Curator Gorgio Armani

The Georgian Edit: Cutting-Edge Fashion of the Eighteenth Century

Start Date 23 August 2019
End Date 31 December 2019
Venue Fairfax House
Location York, UK

Jean-Claude Poitras: Fashion and Inspiration

Start Date 22 October 2019
End Date 02 August 2020
Venue McCord Museum of Canadian History
Location Montreal, Canada
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Gender Bending Fashion

Start Date 21 March 2019
End Date 25 August 2019
Venue Museum of Fine Arts
Location Boston, USA
Curator Michelle Tolini Fillamore
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Deco After Dark: Evening Wear, 1920–1945

Start Date 02 June 2019
End Date 01 September 2019
Venue Rodale Gallery, Allentown Art Museum
Location Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA

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

Rural Life

Start Date 01 January 2019
End Date 31 December 2019
Venue Fairlynch Museum
Location Budleigh, UK
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Culture/Counterculture:
Fashions of the 1960s and 1970s

Start Date 20 September 2019
End Date 20 November 2020
Venue Kent State University Museum
Location Kent, USA
Curator Sara Hume
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Costumes in Memory

Start Date 15 March 2019
End Date 05 May 2019
Venue China National Silk Museum
Location Hangzhou, China

Dior by Dior (1947—1957) (Touring)

Start Date 01 September 2019
End Date 01 January 2020
Venue China National Silk Museum
Location Hangzhou, China
Curator Alexandra Palmer, Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)

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

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

Asian Hat Collection Donated by Barbara Park

Start Date December 2019
End Date May 2020
Venue China National Silk Museum
Location Hangzhou, China
Exhibition display of hats

Wearing Justice

Start Date 10 August 2019
End Date 15 November 2020
Venue Kent State University Museum
Location Kent, USA
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Tim Walker: Wonderful Things

Start Date 21 September 2019
End Date 22 March 2020
Venue V&A
Location London, UK
Curator Susanna Brown
Designer Shona Heath
Exhibition display of styilised mannequins on a circular set mounted with imagery and angel like installation above

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

Fans Unfolded: Conserving the Lennox-Boyd collection

Start Date 05 March 2019
End Date 12 July 2020
Venue The Fitzwilliam Museum
Location Cambridge, UK
Exhibition display of open fans

Exhibitionism: 50 Years of The Museum at FIT

Start Date 08 February 2019
End Date 20 April 2019
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA
Curator Valerie Steele and Colleen Hill
Designer Kimberly Ackert, Ackert Architecture
Exhibition title banner and imagery on display

Minimalism/ Maximalism

Start Date 28 May 2019
End Date 16 September 2019
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA
Curator Melissa Marra-Alvarez
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Paris, Capital of Fashion

Start Date 06 September 2019
End Date 04 January 2020
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA
Curator Valerie Steele
Designer Kimberly Ackert, Ackert Architecture
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

The Krystyna Campbell-Pretty Fashion Gift

Start Date 01 March 2019
End Date 24 July 2019
Venue NGV International, National Gallery Victoria
Location Melbourne, Australia
Curator Katie Somerville, Danielle Whitfield, Paola Di Trocchio
Exhibition display of dress

Collecting Comme

Start Date 31 October 2019
End Date 30 August 2020
Venue National Gallery of Victoria
Location Melbourne, Australia
Curator Danielle Whitfield
Exhibition display of dress

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

Student Fashion: 2019

Start Date December 2019
End Date 2020
Venue Powerhouse Museum
Location Sydney, Australia
Curator Glynis Jones
Designer Vanessa Cullen, Malcolm McKernan
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Cue: 50 Years of Australian Fashion

Start Date 29 November 2019
End Date 26 April 2020
Venue Powerhouse Museum
Location Sydney, Australia
Curator Roger Leong
Designer Simon Rochowski (studioplusthree)
Graphic design: Maria Mosquera
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Mods: Shaping a Generation

Start Date 13 April 2019
End Date 30 June 2019
Venue New Walk Museum and Gallery
Location Leicester, UK
Curator Shaun Knapp
Designer Shaun Knapp and Joe Nixon, Arch Creative
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Don’t Forget to Remember: Linda Jackson and David McDiarmid

Start Date 17 October 2019
End Date 02 April 2020
Venue Powerhouse Museum
Location Sydney, Australia
Curator Sally Gray, Roger Leong
Designer Malcolm McKernan

Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson: Step into Paradise 

Start Date 17 October 2019
End Date 22 March 2020
Venue Powerhouse Museum
Location Sydney, Australia
Curator Glynis Jones
Designer Jemima Woo (PHM) with Creative Director Tony Assness (independent consultant)
exhibition display of floating mannequin

An Afghan Wedding Outfit

Start Date April 2019
End Date June 2019
Venue The Rooms
Location St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.

Traditional Korean Costumes and Textiles

Start Date 29 March 2019
End Date 09 June 2019
Venue China National Silk Museum
Location Hangzhou, China
Curator Zhao Feng

The Way of Chinese Silk: Silk History and the Silk Road

Start Date December 2019
End Date December 2020
Venue China National Silk Museum
Location Hangzhou, China
Curator Zhao Feng
Exhibition display of flat garment in glass case

Queen Victoria’s Palace

Start Date 20 July 2019
End Date 29 September 2019
Venue Buckingham Palace
Location London, UK
Curator Lucy Peter
Exhibition display of dressed mannequin and artwork on stand

Invisible Men: An Anthology from the Westminster Menswear Archive

Start Date 25 October 2019
End Date 24 November 2019
Venue London Gallery West, Westminster Menswear Archive
Location London, UK
Curator ANDREW GROVES, DANIELLE SPRECHER
Designer ANDREW GROVES
Exhibition display of kagools

Orla Kiely: A Life in Pattern (Touring)

Start Date 07 February 2019
End Date 29 June 2019
Venue Dovecot Studios
Location Edinburgh, UK
Curator Dennis Nothdruft and Mary Schoeser
Exhibition display of garments suspended in the air

Orla Kiely: A Life in Pattern (Touring)

Start Date 30 October 2019
End Date 05 January 2019
Venue Norwich University East Gallery
Location Norwich, UK
Curator Dennis Nothdruft and Mary Schoeser

Orla Kiely: A Life in Pattern (Touring)

Start Date 12 October 2019
End Date 05 January 2020
Venue Winchester Discovery Centre
Location Winchester, UK
Curator Dennis Nothdruft and Mary Schoeser

Pacific Sisters: Fashion Activists (Touring)

Start Date 23 February 2019
End Date 14 July 2019
Venue Auckland Art Gallery
Location Auckland, New Zealand
Curator Nina Tong

Jewels in Play: Swiss Contemporary Jewelry Design Exhibition

Start Date 01 November 2019
End Date 08 December 2019
Venue Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP)
Location Seoul, Korea
Curator Carole Guinard

Fashioned from Nature (Touring)

Start Date 13 April 2019
End Date 01 September 2019
Venue Natural History Museum/Geological Museum
Location Copenhagen, Denmark
Curator Nina Rønsted
Developed in collaboration with V&A, London
Exhibition display of dressed leopard beside mannequin

Celebration: Global Qipao Invitational Exhibition

Start Date 29 September 2019
End Date 01 November 2019
Venue China National Silk Museum
Location Hangzhou, China
Curator Zhao Feng

Black and White in Western Fashion

Start Date 01 August 2019
End Date 01 November 2019
Venue China National Silk Museum
Location Hangzhou, China
Curator Zhao Feng

Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion (Touring)

Start Date 17 August 2019
End Date 10 November 2019
Venue Bendigo Art Gallery
Location Bendigo, Australia
Curator Stephanie Wood

A Royal Wedding: the Duke and Duchess of Sussex

Start Date 14 June 2019
End Date 06 October 2019
Venue Palace of Holyroodhouse
Location Edinburgh, UK
Exhibition display of mannequins dressed in wedding garments

A Royal Wedding: HRH Princess Eugenie and Mr Jack Brooksbank

Start Date 01 March 2019
End Date 22 April 2019
Venue Windsor Castle
Location Windsor, UK
Exhibition display of mannequins dressed in wedding garments

Connecting Afro Futures. Fashion x Hair x Design

Start Date 24 August 2019
End Date 01 December 2019
Venue Decorative Arts Museum (Kunstgewerbemuseum)
Location Berlin, Germany
Curator Claudia Banz, Cornelia Lund and Beatrace Angut Oola 

Alexander McQueen: Roses

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

Flowers Blooming in Flowers Mode (Flowers モードに咲く花)

Start Date 13 July 2019
End Date 01 September 2019
Venue Kobe Fashion Museum
Location Kobe, Japan
Curator Kunio Hamada
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins around a circular floor display of flowers

International Fashion Showcase 2019

Start Date 11 February 2019
End Date 24 February 2019
Venue Somerset House
Location London, England
Exhibition display of garments suspended in the air

Eric N. Mack: Lemme Walk Across the Room

Start Date 11 February 2019
End Date 04 August 2019
Venue Brooklyn Museum of Art
Location New York, USA
Curator Ashley James
Exhibition display of textiles drapes on strings and a step ladder

One: Egúngún

Start Date 08 February 2019
End Date 18 August 2019
Venue Brooklyn Museum of Art
Location New York, USA
Curator Kristen Windmuller-Luna
Exhibition display of textiles

WANT: Desire, Design and Depression Era Footwear

Start Date 20 January 2019
End Date 30 March 2020
Venue Bata Shoe Museum
Location Toronto, Canada
Curator Elizabeth Semmelhack

The Hoodie

Start Date 01 December 2019
End Date 23 August 2020
Venue Het Nieuwe Instituut
Location Rotterdam, Netherlands
Curator Lou Stoppard
Designer Studio L A: Arna Mackic and Lorien Beijaert
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins and imagery