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Memos. On Fashion in this Millennium

In response

Fashion Curating and Cultural Policy in Italy: Gabriele Monti

Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Man Ray and Fashion

Start Date 24 December 2020
End Date 17 January 2021
Venue Musee des Luxembourg
Location Paris, France
Curator Xavier Rey, Alain Sayag and Catherine Örmen
Designer Agence NC, Nathalie Crinière assisted by Lucile Louveau
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Fashioned from Nature (touring)

Start Date 19 December 2020
End Date 06 June 2021
Venue Sea World Culture and Arts Center/Design Society
Location Shenzhen, China
Curator Edwina Ehrmann and Edith Cheung Sai May
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Ruth E. Carter: Afro Futurism in Costume Design

Start Date 18 December 2020
End Date 12 September 2021
Venue SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion and Film
Location Georgia, USA
Curator Rafael Gomes, Christina Frank and Julia Long
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Fashion through the Years

Start Date 16 December 2020
End Date 16 February 2021
Venue Qasr Al Hosn
Location Abu Dhabi, UAE
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins and imagery

Collective Inspiration

Start Date 12 December 2020
End Date 02 May 2021
Venue The Ellman Fashion Design Gallery, Phoenix Art Museum
Location Phoenix, USA
Exhibition display of dress and decorative objects on open display

La Belle Epoque – Fashions of the 1870s-1910s

Start Date 11 December 2020
End Date 06 November 2021
Venue Ulster Museum
Location Belfast, Northern Ireland

Anatomies in Limbo

Start Date 05 December 2020
End Date 28 February 2021
Venue Het Nieuwe Instituut (The New Institute)
Location Rotterdam, Netherlands
Curator Gallery 3 By You

Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

Start Date 03 December 2020
End Date 30 May 2021
Venue Rippon Lea House and Gardens
Location Melbourne, Australia
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Fashioned from Nature (touring)

Start Date December 2020
End Date June 2021
Venue China Silk Museum
Location Hangzhou, China
Curator Edwina Ehrmann
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Romance & Purity: Western Wedding Dresses in the 19th-20th Centuries

Start Date 01 December 2020
End Date March 2021
Venue China Silk Museum
Location Hangzhou, China
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Love is Love: Wedding Bliss for All a la Jean Paul Gaultier (Touring)

Start Date 28 November 2020
End Date 01 March 2021
Venue Museum of Contemporary Art
Location Belgrade, Serbia
Curator Thierry-Maxime Loriot
Exhibition display of a wedding cake style plinth with dressed mannequins in wedding attire

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

Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion

Start Date 21 November 2020
End Date 14 March 2021
Venue Peabody Essex Museum
Location Salem, Massachusetts, USA
Curator Petra Slinkard
Exhibition displaying eight mannequins wearing garments from the 19th and 20th centuries.

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

Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion

Start Date 21 November 2020
End Date 14 March 2020
Venue Peabody Essex Museum
Location Salem, MA, USA
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Philip Treacy. The Maestro

Start Date 20 November 2020
End Date 21 March 2021
Venue Erarta Museum
Location St. Petersburg, Russia
Curator Philip Treacy
Exhibition display of mannequin heads wearing hats

The Rolling Stones: Unzipped

Start Date 20 November 2020
End Date 18 April 2021
Venue Groninger Museum
Location Groningen, The Netherlands
Curator Ileen Gallagher
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins wearing hats

SEE LV

Start Date 31 October 2020
End Date 06 December 2020
Venue Wuhan International Plaza
Location Wuhan, China
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins and accessories hanging on wall

Piinpi: Contemporary Indigenous Fashion

Start Date 31 October 2020
End Date 17 January 2021
Venue Bendigo Art Gallery
Location Bendigo, Australia
Curator Shonae Hobson
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

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

Romaison

Start Date 23 October 2020
End Date 29 November 2020
Venue Museo dell'Ara Pacis
Location Rome, Italy
Curator Clara Tosi Pamphili

The Fabulous Universe of Tomo Koizumi (O Fabuloso Universo de Tomo Koizumi)

Start Date 20 October 2020
End Date 17 January 2021
Venue Japan House São Paulo
Location São Paulo, Brazil
Curator Natasha Barzaghi Geenen
Designer Metro Arquitetos
Exhibition display of fluffy garments

Art Deco by the Sea

Start Date 17 October 2020
End Date 27 February 2021
Venue Laing Art Gallery
Location Newcastle, UK
Exhibition display of mannequins dressed in swimwear

Night and Day: 1930s
Fashion and Photographs (Touring)

Start Date 12 October 2020
End Date 20 December 2020
Venue American Museum and Gardens
Location Bath, UK
Curator Dennis Nothdruft, Fashion and Textile Museum (London)
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Betty Catroux Yves Saint Laurent Feminine Singular

Start Date 08 October 2020
End Date 09 May 2021
Venue Musée Yves Saint Laurent
Location Paris, France
Curator Anthony Vaccarello
Designer Christophe Martin Architectes assisted by Alisson Mimil Baysset
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins with white wigs in dark background

Homesick for Another World

Start Date 08 October 2020
End Date 10 October 2020
Venue 8-10 Greatorex Street E1 5NF
Location London, UK
Curator Felix Choong
Designer Felix Choong
Exhibitors: Aliou Janha, Carl Gustaf von Platen, Chet Lo, Feben, Isabel MacInnes, Katya Zelentsova, Mainline:Rus/Fr.Ca/De, Marie Lueder, San Kim, Taylor Thoroski, The Exquisite Corpse Project, Yasmina Atta
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer

Start Date 07 October 2020
End Date 03 January 2021
Venue Barbican Art Gallery
Location London, UK
Curator Florence Ostende

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

DRESS.CODE.

Start Date 01 October 2020
End Date 09 May 2021
Venue ModeMuseum
Location Hasselt, Belgium
Linen halter bodice by Maison Martin Margiela, displayed on a tailor's dummy

Poetry: Global Qipao Invitational Exhibition, 2020

Start Date 01 October 2020
End Date 01 October 2021
Venue Fashion Gallery, China National Silk Museum
Location Hangzhou, China
Curator Zhao Feng
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins and millinery on plinths

Alaïa and Balenciaga – Sculptors of Shape

Start Date 27 September 2020
End Date 14 February 2021
Venue Fondation Azzedine Alaïa
Location Paris, France
Curator Olivier Saillard
Designer Kris Ruhs
BALENCIAGA, HAUTE COUTURE SPRING-SUMMER 1961, AUTUMN-WINTER 1957

Fashion in Colour

Start Date 26 September 2020
End Date 18 April 2021
Venue Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Location The Hague, Netherlands
Curator Madelief Hohé

Christian Dior

Start Date 25 September 2020
End Date 02 May 2021
Venue McCord Museum of Canadian History
Location Montreal, Canada
Curator Alexandra Palmer, Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Silk and Steel: French Fashion, Women and WWI

Start Date 25 September 2020
End Date 06 September 2021
Venue The National WWI Museum and Memorial
Location Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Curator Maude Bass-Krueger and Sophie Kurkdjian
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Sound to Wear – Dressed in Sound

Start Date 24 September 2020
End Date 10 January 2021
Venue Textil Museet
Location Borås, Sweden
Curator Vidmina Stasiulyte
Exhibition display of hat with windchimes, backed by a silhouette of the hat

Il Gioiello del Re Sole (The Jewel of the Sun King)

Start Date 10 September 2020
End Date 2020
Venue Genus Bononiae
Location Bologna, Italy

Art, Fashion and Subversion

Start Date 10 September 2020
End Date 17 January 2021
Venue Musee des Tissus
Location Marseille, France
Curator Esclarmonde Monteil

Good as Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women (Touring)

Start Date 09 September 2020
End Date 03 January 2021
Venue North Carolina Museum of Art
Location North Carolina, USA
Curator Amanda M. Maples
Exhibition display entrance with Good as Gold banner

Prada: Front and Back – Cancelled

Start Date September 2020
Venue Design Museum
Location London, UK

Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion (Touring)

Start Date 01 September 2020
End Date 01 November 2020
Venue China National Silk Museum
Location Hangzhou, China

Masculinities

Start Date 28 August 2020
End Date 13 June 2021
Venue Musée Mode & Dentelle
Location Brussels, Belgium
Curator Denis Laurent
Designer Antigone Aristidou
Formerly Musée du Costume et de la dentelle
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Absent Bodies

Start Date 28 August 2020
End Date 22 November 2020
Venue Design Museum
Location Copenhagen, Denmark
Curator Ane Lynge-Jorlén and Pernille Stockmarr
Exhibition display of twisted textiles taking on appearance of a body

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

Fortuna: Designs by Vincent Quevedo

Start Date 20 August 2020
End Date 07 March 2021
Venue Kent State University Museum
Location Kent, USA
Designer Jim Williams
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Mary Quant (Touring)

Start Date 17 August 2020
End Date 21 January 2021
Venue V&A Dundee
Location Dundee, UK
Curator Jenny Lister, Stephanie Wood
Designer V&A
Rear view of exhibition display of dressed mannequins

The Language of Fashion

Start Date 14 August 2020
End Date 31 October 2022
Venue The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe
Location Hamburg, Germany
Curator Angelika Riley
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

The Great Divide: Footwear in the Age of Enlightenment

Start Date 12 August 2020
End Date 27 March 2023
Venue Bata Shoe Museum
Location Toronto, Canada
Curator Elizabeth Semmelhack

RENOVATION: Kimono & Sustainability (きもの － リノベーション)

Start Date 05 August 2020
End Date 07 September 2020
Venue The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Location New York, USA
Curator John T. Carpenter and Monika Bincsik

Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams (Touring)

Start Date 28 July 2020
End Date 04 October 2020
Venue Long Museum (West Bund)
Location Shanghai, China
Curator Oriole Cullen
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

The Roaring Twenties: Fashions of the Jazz Age

Start Date 25 July 2020
End Date 04 September 2021
Venue Chertsey Museum
Location Chertsey, UK

Mid-Century Modern: Art & Design from Conran to Quant: Touring

Start Date 15 July 2020
End Date 09 January 2021
Venue Dovecot Studios
Location Edinburgh, UK
Curator Kate Grenyer
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins, some seated, amidst furnishings

Christian Dior Itinéraire d’un Couturier
(Christian Dior Itinerary of a Couturier)

Start Date 01 July 2020
End Date 03 January 2021
Venue Musée Christian Dior
Location Granville, France
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Kimono: Fashioning Identities

Start Date 30 June 2020
End Date 23 August 2020
Venue Tokyo National Museum
Location Tokyo, Japan
Several pale kimonos hung on two walls. In between the walls is a yellow, blue and red kimono on display.

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

Playground – The Design of Sneakers

Start Date 26 June 2020
End Date 07 March 2021
Venue Musée du Design
Location Bordeaux, France
Curator Constance Rubini
Designer Mathieu Lehanneur and Arthur Fosse
Exhibition display of trainers in a triangle-shaped plinth

Emma Buswell: Selected knitted works 2017-2020

Start Date 06 June 2020
End Date 03 August 2020
Venue Art Gallery Western Australia
Location Perth, Australia
Curator Robert Cook

Dress Code: Are You Playing Fashion? (Touring)

Start Date 04 July 2020
End Date 30 August 2020
Venue Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
Location Tokyo, Japan
Curator Makoto Ishizeki (The Kyoto Costume Institute), Chinatsu Makiguchi (The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto)
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Katja of Sweden

Start Date 04 June 2020
End Date 20 September 2020
Venue Röhsska Museum of Design and Craft
Location Gothenberg, Sweden
Curator Anna Lindqvist (Kulturen i Lund)
Designer Kulturen i Lund
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Treasures of Fashion: The aesthetic sense of Valerie Steele

Start Date 19 May 2020
End Date 30 August 2020
Venue Kobe Fashion Museum
Location Kobe, Japan
Curator Valerie Steele
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins with white wigs

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

Life Doesn’t Frighten Me. Michelle Elie wears Comme des Garçons

Start Date 03 April 2020
End Date 01 November 2020
Venue Museum Angewandte Kunst
Location Frankfurt, Germany
Curator Mahret Ifeoma Kupka
Designer Jasmin Kress
Supported by Paula Macedo Weiß
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins on round black plinth

Thierry Mugler: Couturissime (Touring)

Start Date 03 April 2020
End Date 28 February 2021
Venue Kunsthalle
Location Munich, Germany
Curator Thierry-Maxime Loriot
Initiated and produced by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in collaboration with the Maison Mugler
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Studio 54: Night Magic

Start Date 13 March 2020
End Date 08 November 2020
Venue Brooklyn Museum
Location Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Curator Matthew Yokobosky
Designer Matthew Yokobosky
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins on a raised plinth with neon lighting

Willi Smith: Street Couture

Start Date 13 March 2020
End Date 25 October 2020
Venue Cooper Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Design Museum
Location New York, USA
Curator Alexandra Cunningham Cameron
Designer SITE, in collaboration with Sam Chermayeff Architects
Curatorial assistants Darnell-Jamal Lisby, Julie Pastor and interns Myra Edmonds, Madeline Walsh
Exhibition display of dress

Eleanor Lambert: Empress of Seventh Avenue

Start Date 03 March 2020
End Date 28 March 2020
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA
Exhibition display of mannequin head and hat and imagery

Women in Streetwear

Start Date 01 March 2020
End Date 30 April 2020
Venue Port Authority Bus Terminal
Location New York, USA
Curator April Walker
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins and text panel in a transport hub

Cristóbal Balenciaga. Fashion and Heritage: Cristóbal

Start Date 29 February 2020
End Date 08 April 2021
Venue Cristobal Balenciaga Museoa
Location Getaria, Spain
Curator Igor Uria
Designer Judith Clark
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Duro Olowu Seeing Chicago

Start Date 29 February 2020
End Date 27 September 2020
Venue Museum of Contemporary Art
Location Chicago, USA
Curator Duro Olowu 
Organized for the MCA by Senior Curator, Manilow Naomi Beckwith
Curatorial Assistant Jack Schneider
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

India: Fashion’s Muse

Start Date 29 February 2020
End Date 25 October 2020
Venue Phoenix Art Museum
Location Phoenix, USA
Curator Helen Jean
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Contemporary Muslim Fashions (touring)

Start Date 28 February 2020
End Date 23 August 2020
Venue Cooper Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Design Museum
Location New York, USA
Curator Jill D’Alessandro, Laura L. Camerlengo
Designer Isometric Studio
Consulting curator Reina Lewis, London College of Fashion
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

The Bill Gibb Line

Start Date 22 February 2020
End Date 16 May 2021
Venue Aberdeen Art Gallery
Location Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

Hanae Mori: Madame Butterfly, Flying to the World

Start Date 02 February 2020
End Date 02 April 2020
Venue Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito
Location Mito City, Ibaraki, Japan
Curator Art Tower Mito
Cooperated by: Iwami Art Museum, STUDIO SHIKUMI INC
Exhibtion display of dressed mannequins on central plinth

Memos. On Fashion in this Millennium

Start Date 21 February 2020
End Date 28 September 2020
Venue Poldi Pezzoli Museum
Location Milan, Italy
Curator Maria Luisa Frisa with interventions by Judith Clark
Designer Stefano Tonchi
Exhibition display of painting in front of wall mounted historical portraits

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

American Everyday: Resistance, Revolution, Transformation

Start Date 15 February 2020
Venue Columbia College Chicago
Location Columbia, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Active Minds and Busy Bodies

Start Date 15 February 2020
End Date 01 November 2020
Venue Killerton House, National Trust
Location Exeter, UK
Curator Shelley Tobin
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins in swim wear

Fast x Slow Fashion: Shopping for Clothes in Leeds 1720 – 2020

Start Date 14 February 2020
End Date 29 November 2020
Venue Leeds City Museum
Location Leeds, UK
Curator Vanessa Jones
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Black Excellence: Fashion that Prevails

Start Date 12 February 2020
End Date 26 May 2020
Venue Cornell University
Location Ithaca, NY, USA
Curator Sian Brown
Exhibition display of glass case containing mannequins

Ballerina:
Fashion’s Modern Muse

Start Date 11 February 2020
End Date 18 April 2020
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA
Curator Patricia Mears
Designer Kimberly Ackert, Ackert Architecture
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins in ballerina clothing

ALAÏA-ADRIAN: MASTERS OF CUT

Start Date 11 February 2020
End Date 15 November 2020
Venue SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film
Location Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Curator Olivier Saillard and Rafael Gomes
Exhibition display of dress

Body Beautiful: Diversity on the Catwalk (Touring)

Start Date 08 February 2020
End Date 09 August 2020
Venue Textil Museet
Location Boras, Sweden
Curator Georgina Ripley, National Museum of Scotland
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

By Royal Appointment: Devon lace-makers

Start Date 08 February 2020
End Date 01 November 2020
Venue Royal Albert Memorial Museum
Location Exeter, UK

The Real Thing

Start Date 07 February 2020
End Date 02 May 2020
Venue Fashion Space Gallery
Location London, UK
Curator Anastasiia Fedorova
Exhibition display of clothing hanging on a wire frame

Design in Motion: A New York City Ballet Fall Fashion Gala Retrospective

Start Date 05 February 2020
End Date 21 March 2020
Venue The Museum at FIT
Location New York, USA
Curator Roger Leong and Yvonne Gates
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Fashion: Central Saint Martins

Start Date 05 February 2020
End Date 10 March 2020
Venue Lethaby Gallery, Central St Martins, UAL
Location London, UK
Curator BA Fashion Communication: History and Theory students and the Museum and Study Collection
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Time to Love

Start Date 01 February 2020
End Date 13 March 2020
Venue Building Number 13
Location New Delhi, India
Exhibition display of diaphanous dress lit up with lightbulbs suspended overhead

Dance Tailors

Start Date 01 February 2020
End Date 01 November 2020
Venue Centre National du Costume et de la Scène
Location Moulins, France
Curator Philippe Hazelnut
Designer Marco Mencacci

Atelier E.B: Passer-by (Touring)

Start Date 31 January 2020
End Date 09 August 2020
Venue Garage MCA
Location Moscow, Russia
Curator Daria Bobrenko, Valentin Diaconov and Oksana Polyakova
Designer GRACE
Artists: Beca Lipscombe and Lucy McKenzie
Exhibition display of mannequins in various poses on plinths

Fashion Nirvana: Runway to Everyday

Start Date 30 January 2020
End Date 13 September 2020
Venue McNay Art Museum
Location San Antonio, Texas, USA
Curator Kate Carey, Jackie Edwards and Lauren Thompson
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins on coloured plinths with table and chairs laid for dinner in foreground

Night Fever. Designing club culture 1960-today

Start Date 25 January 2020
End Date 27 September 2020
Venue Design Museum
Location Copenhagen, Denmark
Curator Jochen Eisenbrand, Catharine Rossi and Katarina Serulus
Designer Konstantin Grcic and lighting designer Matthias Singer
Exhibition display of dressed mannequins

Alaïa and Balenciaga – Sculptors of Shape

Start Date 20 January 2020
End Date 24 September 2020
Venue Fondation Azzedine Alaïa
Location Paris, France
Curator Olivier Saillard
An exhibition view of three black lace bolero-style jackets are shown against a softly lit white backdrop.

African Apparel Threaded Transformations across the 20th Century

Start Date 18 January 2020
End Date 06 September 2020
Venue Cornell Fine Arts Museum
Location Winter Park, Florida, USA
Curator MacKenzie Moon Ryan

That ‘70s Exhibit

Start Date 14 January 2020
End Date 22 March 2020
Venue The Esse Purse Museum
Location Arkansas, USA
Curator Emily Hadland
display of exhibition mannequins

Hats Off: Halston Hats from the Masterson Collection

Start Date 11 January 2020
End Date 03 January 2021
Venue The Museum of Fine Arts (MFAH)
Location Houston, Texas, USA
Exhibition display of hats on plinths and tables

Fringes, Fur and Feathers

Start Date 2020
End Date 2021
Venue Beck Isle Museum
Location Pickering, North Yorkshire, UK