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includes members in Australia, Denmark, England, Finland,
Germany, Greece, Holland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Japan,
Korea, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland,
Taiwan, R.O.C., and the U. A. Emirates.
The Region VIII Events Calendar lists exhibitions
of costume, and costume-related exhibitions, the dates and places
of the National and Regional Symposia, lectures, and workshops. Where
available, a telephone number has been included. Please use these
numbers to obtain additional information. Dates of exhibitions
may change. Where available, dates for the exhibitions are included.
If no beginning date is given, the exhibition is already open.
Abegg-Stiftung
Riggisberg, Switzerland
031-808-12-01
http://www.abegg-stiftung.ch
Benaki Museum
Tel.: +30 210 367 1000
benaki@benaki.gr
http://www.benaki.gr/index.asp?lang=en
Buckinghamshire County Museum
Church Street, Aylesbury HP20 2QP
Tel.: 01296 331441
http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/museum
The Costume Society of Great Britain
http://www.costumesociety.org.uk/
carolinejohnson@nt/world.com
Courtauld Institute of Art
Somerset House
Strand
London
WC2R 0RN
UK
020 7848 2777
(outside UK +4420 7848 2777)
http://www.courtauld.ac.uk
Design History Society
University College
Falmouth, UK
http://www.designhistorysociety.org/
Drents Museum
Brink 1
9401 HS
Assen, Netherlands
Tel.: +0592 377 773
info@drentsmuseum.nl
http://www.drentsmuseum.nl
ESMOD Australia: The Darnell Collection
2 Short Street
Surry Hills, Sydney NSW 2010
http://www.esmod.com.au/esmod-australia/the-darnell-collection
An extraordinary resource at ESMOD Australia is The Darnell Collection. Students, fashion professionals and members of the public are able to examine the exquisite couture and antique clothing and accessories in this 3,000 piece collection.
Fashion and Textile Museum
83 Bermondsey Street
London SE1 3XF
http://www.ftmlondon.org
"Foale and Tuffin - Made in England"
Through February 24, 2010
From October 2009 the Fashion and Textile Museum is staging a retrospective exhibition of Foale and Tuffin - two influential designers who were at the heart of the cultural explosion in London in the sixties. The Foale and Tuffin label was what cool girls wore - colourful, pop-inspired mini-dresses and trend-setting trouser suits were just some of the key pieces that were ahead of their time in developing popular, desirable fashion.
Foale and Tuffin - Made in England will present a vibrant and inspiring representation of two key British fashion designers of the 1960s and the part they played in creating the changing London scene. It will revisit the Sixties vibe by recreating their boutique, showroom and design studio and chart the very personal story of two women who set up on their own with just a lot of courage and £200 in their pockets!
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"Very Sanderson - 150 Years of English Decoration"
19 March 2010 - 13 June 2010
Sanderson was founded by Arthur Sanderson in 1860 and for the last 150 years has been at the forefront of English decoration - producing the first coordinated collection of mass-produced wallpapers and fabrics in Britain. It also introduced a number of important technical innovations as well as developing a range of textiles and wallpapers by influential designers and Britain's first 'infinite' range of colours in household paints.
During its illustrious history the company has amassed a huge collection of wallpapers and textiles representing the many changing faces and fads of interior decoration. Celebrating 150 years of the company this exhibition highlights the best of its archive as well as brand new collections. Full of surprises, it will fascinate and inform those whose tastes run from the Arts & Crafts style, jazzy Moderne, fifties' Festival designs and Pop patterns, to decidedly contemporary art and decor.
Curated by Mary Schoeser - renowned textile curator and author - the exhibition will be accompanied by a sumptuously-illustrated book published by Thames & Hudson.
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"Horrockses Fashions: Off the Peg Style in the '40s and '50s"
9 July 2010 - 24 October 2010
Horrockses Fashions Limited was the manufacturer of one of the most well-respected ready-to-wear labels of the 1940s and 1950s. The company are best known for their full-skirted dresses which were sought after by women everywhere and were even worn by Queen Elizabeth II. Although they were produced in considerable quantities from the start, the firm maintained an air of exclusivity for the brand, with an emphasis on good quality fabrics, especially cotton, with custom-designed patterns and fashion styling with Parisian couture overtones.
The colourful prints, particularly floral designs will provide a visual feast for visitors to the exhibition. The importance of fabric design on cotton was key to Horrockses Fashions' success; they acquired designs from a number of sources including in-house staff, commercial design studios, freelancers and also from well-known artists such as Graham Sutherland and Eduardo Paolozzi which were applied to the parent company's high quality cotton sheeting which was reserved exclusively for Horrockses Fashions.
The exhibition will focus on the range of the firm's production, from glamorous evening dresses, to vibrant summer frocks and sophisticated housecoats and beachwear. It will follow the story of the Horrockses' dress from initial fabric and fashion design, to production, promotion and consumption.
Curated by Dr. Christine Boydell - author and design historian - the exhibition will also be accompanied by a book published by V&A Publishing.
Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Shatin
1 Man Lam Road
Sha Tin
Hong Kong
Tel.: +852.2180.8188
hkhm@lcsd.gov.hk
http://www.heritagemuseum.gov.hk/english/gen_info.htm
“Cantonese Opera Heritage Hall”
Permanent Exhibition
This gallery relates the history and explains the art of Cantonese Opera. Showcased are some valuable items once used by renowned Cantonese Opera artists.
Jim Thompson Thai House Museum
6 Soi Kasemsan 2
Rama 1 Road
Bangkok, Thailand
Tel.: +662 216 7368
http://www.jimthompsonhouse.com/
Kyoto Costume Institute
Tel.: +075 321 9221
info@kci.or.jp
http://www.kci.or.jp/
“Luxury in Fashion: Reconsidered”
October 31, 2009 through January 17, 2010 at Tokyo
Luxury: Why has fashion always been attracted to and so closely associated with it?
Examining fashion from the standpoint of luxury, this exhibition considers the relationship between luxury and fashion in different societies and eras, from the 17th century to the present, and explores new directions for the future.
The growth of the industrial economy has brought a wealth of material blessings into our lives, but has also confronted us with some challenging global issues. Under these circumstances people do not necessarily share the same view of luxury, which is one of the manifestations of this affluence. Views range from the perception of luxury in terms of visually luxurious and lavish expressions, to a take on luxury that is more individualistic, more of an intellectual pleasure. For this exhibition, we use the concept of ´luxury´ as a vantage point from which to take a new look at fashion—the most sensitive indicator of our values and social trends.
Kensington Palace
Kensington Gardens, London W8
http://www.hrp.org.uk
Tel.: +0870 751 5170
“The Last Debutantes”
Through Jan. 31, 2010
Fashionable afternoon dresses and ball gowns, including stunning examples of couture by Christian Dior and Pierre
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"Diana, Fashion and Style"
The exhibition of eighteen dresses features seven never before displayed at Kensington Palace.
The dresses include an early evening dress by Regamus from 1978-79 and a little black dress from 1995 by Gianni Versace. Many of the dresses on display were designed by Diana's favourite couturier, Catherine Walker
Musee des Arts Decoratifs
107, rue de Rivoli
75001 Paris
tel. : 01 44 55 57 50
"Madeleine Vionnet, Fashion Purist"
Jun. 24, 2009 - Jan. 31, 2010
Following the 2003 Schiaparelli show, as well as this year's exhibition on Jean Després and Modern Jewelery Designers, the artistically prolific interwar period (specifically the period between the two World Wars) has become news once again. The Musée des Arts décoratifs (Museum of Decorative Arts) pays tribute to Madeleine Vionnet who died in 1975 just one year shy of her 100th birthday, her personality eclipsed by her fashion creations. Although she was little known to the general public, Vionnet was venerated by her professional peers. She lived through an extremely momentous epoch including two World Wars, avant-garde movements that shook the art world, and numerous fashion innovations to which she actively contributed.
Museo Del Traje
(Costume Museum of Spain)
Avenida de Juan de Herrera, 2. Madrid (28040)
Spain
Madrid. Tlf. 91550 47 00 ext. 4742, 4740 y 4813
http://museodeltraje.mcu.es
"100% 20th Century"
Through January 3, 2010
At the present day, more than a century since the couturier Charles Frederick Worth began to label his creations and to be considered by his clients as a true artist, fashion has become a social and economic phenomenon based on the creativity of the designers whose talent has produced some of the best known images of the century. Over the last hundred years this intimate daily action of dressing ourselves has been transformed into an aesthetic experience shared by all. From the unique creations of Haute Couture to chain store fashion items, the whole range of clothes is imbued with that need for continual change which is fashion and also simultaneously with the consciousness of dress as an art form.
Poiret, Patou, Paquin, Chanel, Vionnet, Balenciaga, Dior, Saint Laurent… a long list of couturiers drafted the recent history of this Fashion with a capital F, crowded with names which identify immediately recognisable styles, and which, in many cases, have revolutionised the thinking of their time through something apparently as irrelevant as a dress, an accessory or a gesture. This is 20th century Fashion, which has chosen to distance itself from all earlier fashions.
The exhibition '100% 20th century' shows the unstoppable development of this art form. With 100 items on display from the collections of the Museo del Traje. Centro de Interpretación del Patrimonio Etnológico, it offers an overview of the fashion phenomenon through its great creators and attempts to represent some, not all, of the most important in terms of new forms and styles.
Museum der Kulturen
Augustinergasse 2
4051 Basel
Switzerland
Tel.: +41 61 266 5600
info@mkb.ch
www.mkb.ch/en/home.html
Woven Beauty: "Textile Art from West Africa"
August 28, 2009 - May 16, 2010
The Museum der Kulturen holds a significant collection of West African textiles that was assembled systematically in the mid-1970s. On a 16-month journey from Lagos to Dakar funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the curator of the Africa Department at that time, Renée Boser-Sarivaxévanis, and the present curator, Bernhard Gardi, collected roughly 1,000 textiles. Now, a generation later, and on the occasion of the 50th independence anniversary of many African nations, the Museum der Kulturen presents an exhibition showing a rich selection of classic, and now rare, textile artworks from Mali, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana.
The Fashion Museum
Bennett Street
BA1 2QH
Bath
England
Tel.: +44 01225 477173
costume_enquiries@bathnes.gov.uk
http://www.museumofcostume.co.uk/
"Photographing Fashion: British Style in the 1960s"
Opens March 27, 2010
A display of forty black and white photographs from the Fashion Museum's Sunday Times Fashion Archive celebrating British fashion - the fashion designers, the models, the photographers, and the fashion editors - in the 1960s.
The display coincides with the publication of a book of the same title, which is available from October in the Fashion Museum shop.
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"Vionnet at the Fashion Museum"
December 5, 2009 through 2010
The Fashion Museum, working in partnership with the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Bowes Museum, has saved a collection of rare 1930s evening dresses by Madeleine Vionnet, one of the greatest 20th century couturiers, for the nation.
The two dresses acquired by the Fashion Museum, both of which are exquisite examples of Vionnet's skill in manipulating fabric, will be on display in the Fashion Musuem galleries from 5 December 2009.
The dresses are being prepared for display this autumn. In the meantime, fashion and textile students from the School of Art and Design at Bath Spa University will have a once in a lifetime opportunity to study the dresses up close in special study sessions at the Fashion Museum's Study Facilities. The students will sketch the dresses and the best sketches will be published on the Fashion Museum website in December 2009 when the actual dresses go on display in the museum galleries for all to see.
Permanent Displays includes women's wear and menswear from the 18th century to the present day.
Museum of London
London Wall
London EC2Y 5HN
Tel.: +0870 444 3852
info@museumoflondo.org.uk
http://www.museum-london.org.uk/
Pickford's House Museum
41 Friar Gate
Derby DE1 1DA
England
Tel.: +01 332 255 363
http://www.derby.gov.uk/museums/index.htm
Shambellie House Museum of Costume
New Abbey
Dumfrieshire
DG2 8HQ
Scotland
Tel.: +01387 850 375
http://www.nms.ac.uk/costume/home/index.asp
The National Museum of Costume has now closed for 2008, but will reopen Wed 1 April 2010.
The Textile Gallery
Textile & Art Publications
Studio 28 Liddell Road
West Hampstead, London
NW6 2EW England
Tel.: (44-20) 7328 4844
post@textile-art.com
Victoria and Albert Museum
Cromwell Road
South Kensington
London SW7 2RL
Tel.: +44020 7942 2000
http://www.vam.ac.uk/
"Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes 1900-1939"
Sept. 19, 2010 – Jan. 16, 2011
This major retrospective will examine the origins, development and long term influence of the Ballets Russes, to celebrate the centenary of their first appearance in 1909.
Museum staff are currently researching the exhibition and would be interested to hear from any individuals who have relevant private material. In particular, a large number of original costumes were dispersed at the Sotheby's auctions in the early 1970s. So if you have an original costume still hanging in your wardrobe, we would be delighted to hear from you. In the first instance please contact Jane Pritchard, Curator of Dance at j.pritchard@vam.ac.uk.
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"Quilts"
Mar. 20 - Jul. 18, 2010
Enduringly popular, crossing centuries and continents, this exhibition will focus on the UK tradition of quilting. A unique opportunity to showcase the V&A's historic quilt collection, the exhibition will also draw on regional variations, exploring the evolution of quilting in the context of social change and position it as an important area of cultural production.
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"Future Fashion Now: New Design from the Royal College of Art"
Through January 31, 2010
Showcasing highlights from the Royal College of Art (RCA) fashion MA graduates' final collections, this display will feature over 50 outfits and accessories from an oversize handbag to a leopard print suit. As well as women's wear, knitwear, millinery and footwear design, the display will reveal aspects of the design process including preliminary sketches, illustrations, and models to explore the design stages the students go through to create their final collection, from their inspiration to the finished garment.
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"Grace Kelly Style: Fashion for a Hollywood Princess"
April 17 through September 26, 2010
The spectacular wardrobe of Grace Kelly will be on display at the V&A. Tracing the evolution of her style from her days as one of Hollywood's most popular actresses in the 1950s and as Princess Grace of Monaco, the display will present over 50 of Grace Kelly's outfits together with hats, jewellery and the original Hermès Kelly bag. Dresses from her films, including High Society, will be shown as well as the gown she wore to accept her Oscar award in 1955. These will be accompanied by film clips and posters, photographs and her Oscar statuette. The display will also include the lace ensemble worn by Grace Kelly for her civil marriage ceremony to Prince Rainier in 1956 and 35 haute couture gowns from the 1960s and 70s by her favourite couturiers Dior, Balenciaga, Givenchy, and Yves St Laurent
Waddesdon Manor
Waddesdon
Nr Aylesbury
Buckinghamshire
HP18 OJH
England
Tel.: +44 01296 653226
www.waddesdon.org.uk/
Wereldmuseum
Willemskade 25
3016 DM Rotterdam
Netherlands
Tel.: +010 270 7172
bibliotheeke@wereldmuseum.rotterdam.nl
http://www.wereldmuseum.rotterdam.nl/
The Wereldmuseum closed in August 2007 for rebuilding the entire museum and realizing an exciting new concept. When reopened autumn 2009, the Wereldmuseum will be a unique and dynamic centre of world cultures.
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