aktuelle Ausstellungen

Suit Yourself | 100 years of menswear, 1750-1850

Amsterdam ( NL) < 22.03.2025 - 15.03.2026

The intimate spotlight exhibition Suit Yourself presents the exuberant finery worn by flamboyant Dutch men in the 18th and 19th centuries, made with striped velvet, floral embroidery and rich silk fabrics.
Clothes make the man

Men’s fashions in the 18th century were by no means understated, and the influence of the ‘macaroni’ from 1760 to 1780 soon caught on in the Netherlands. Worn mostly by wealthy men, the style was all about vivid colours and contrasting fabrics. Clothing also reflected the beauty ideal of that era: a blue waistcoat decorated with intricate embroidery, for example, incorporates a cardboard band that accentuates the length of the torso.

Near and far

The Dutch creators and wearers of these fashion items drew their influences from near and far. Heavy silk damask fabrics were woven and worn locally, while inspiration also came from Turkish motifs and other international sources. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) imported exclusive fabrics such as silk, cotton and linen to the Netherlands, through a process that often involved violence and oppression.

Increasing choice

The French Revolution (1789–1799) led to more subdued fashions, as soldiers in uniform became the models of masculinity. Relatively subtle displays of wealth remained visible in the detailing, however, with items such as waistcoats featuring double rows of buttons. In the 19th century, styles were further influenced by industrialisation, which increased the availability of fabrics and ready-to-wear clothing. This period also saw a flourishing market for second-hand fashions. One exceptional example of this recycling phenomenon is a waistcoat made of hand-painted Chinese silk from an 18th-century dress.

Design

The exhibition is designed by the French architecture practice Wilmotte & Associés.

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Rijksmuseum
Museumsstraat 1
1071XX Amsterdam
Niederlande

weitere Infos: www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/suit-yourself-or100-years-of-menswear-1750-1850

Dress Codes

London ( GB ) > bis 30.11.2025

Decoding the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection

Discover never-before-seen royal fashion treasures in Dress Codes, a new exhibition at Kensington Palace.

Explore the codes and conventions of royal clothing, and the powerful impact fashion can make when boundaries are pushed and dress codes evolve.

Among the highlights of this exciting new exhibition are pieces worn by a young Queen Elizabeth II, Diana, Princess of Wales, Dame Vivienne Westwood, Princess Margaret and Queen Victoria.

Dress Codes showcases both recognisable and rarely-seen treasures from the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection, a collection of 10,000 objects spanning 500 years, cared for by Historic Royal Palaces.

Stunning items from the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection on display in 2025 include an extremely rare Japanese court suit dating from the early 20th century, and a never-before-seen 1920s Reville court dress worn to Buckingham Palace.

Alongside these spectacular examples of royal and court dress, discover how dress codes can be reset and re-made for today through designs by our Young Producers, aged 14-17. This new partnership with local youth groups paves the way for a new generation of young people to contribute to the arts and fashion industries.

Dress Codes has been generously supported by our Associate Partners, the Blavatnik Family Foundation and Avis Charles Associates.

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Kensington palace
London
Großbritannien

weitere Infos: www.hrp.org.uk/kensington-palace/whats-on/dress-codes/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR06eDvQF845v2RHJ1iWveR-z5NwtsQHl5uHg4LE0ziOJENOyPsoulsKJTc_aem_v0WgX7oB3om8WCjCP3re5A#gs.mtrdpm

DIRNDL - Tradition goes Fashion

Augsburg ( D ) >04.04.2025 – 19.10.2025

Ein Dirndl ist mehr als nur ein Kleid. Es steht einerseits für bayerische Tradition, Geschichte und Handwerkskunst. Andererseits ist es heute ein modisches Statement – mit innovativen Designs und Akzenten. Tradition goes Fashion – und das Dirndl steht im Mittelpunkt.

In einer opulenten Ausstellung lädt das tim auf einen modischen Streifzug ein, der vom 19. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart reicht. Auf mehr als 1.000 Quadratmetern Ausstellungsfläche können Besucherinnen und Besucher eintauchen in die wechselvolle Entwicklungsgeschichte des Dirndls, seine Ursprünge, politischen Vereinnahmungen und aufregenden Neuinterpretationen.

Zu erleben sind neben historischen Dirndln auch heutige High-Fashion Modelle junger Designerinnen und Designer, die durch beeindruckende Entwürfe völlig neue modische Statements setzen.

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tim | Staatliches Textil- und Industriemuseum Augsburg
Provinostraße 46
86153 Augsburg
Deutschland

weitere Infos: www.timbayern.de/ausstellungen/dirndl-tradition-goes-fashion/?cn-reloaded=1

Social Fabric

Espoo ( FIN ) 23.05.2025 - 07.12.2025

Social Fabric brings together a group of contemporary fashion designers and artists that explore the cultural fabric of fashion, and its rituals and trepidations. Contemporary fashion designers are spearheading a new critical way of making and consuming fashion. They are exploring complex cultural issues as well as the role of fashion in society.

Fashion is part of our everyday life, and it speaks volumes of our connections. Even a single item of clothing can link us to communities and networks; and how we consume and produce fashion is tied to complex cultural behaviours, locally and globally. Fashion feeds on collective consumption where we use objects to show social status. In contrast, fashion also connects us in proactive and critical communities where creating is an act of activism that expresses solidarity and resistance.

The exhibition presents fashion, textile art, sculpture and film. It includes both established and emerging designers and artists from the Nordics and Northern Europe.

This exhibition is the third instalment of a wider, ongoing Nordic collaboration between the Danish fashion organization ALPHA, the Swedish design and craft heritage museum Röhsska, the National Museum of Norway in Oslo, the Copenhagen Contemporary art center in Denmark, and EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art.

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EMMA Museum
Exhibition Centre WeeGee
Ahertajantie 5, Tapiola
Espoo
Finland

weitere Infos: emmamuseum.fi/en/exhibitions/social-fabric/

Costumes from Badehotellet

Svendborg ( DK ) > 16.04.2025 - 02.11.2025

On 16 April, the season 2025 opens in the Danish Costumearium, with the large exhibition of costumes from Badehotellet, focusing on the women of the Badehotel.

​Get up close and personal with the original costumes and experience how costume designer Margrethe Rasmussen’s stylish details and cuts have helped to tell all the good stories.

Behind the Costumeriet is the association Denmark's Kostumarium - not just for desire. The association's board of directors runs the museum and the administration. This year's two major exhibitions are curated by tailor Michael Nøhr.

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Danmarks Kostumarium
Frederiksø 16C, 2.sal
5700 Svendborg
Dänemark

weitere Infos: www.kostumarium.dk/

Threads of Time – Fashion and Style 1870–1940

Helsingborg ( S ) > 13.04.2025 - 08.02.2026

Dunkers Kulturhus is showing for the first time a larger number of dresses from Helsingborg Museum's collection. The majority have never been exhibited before. The selection consists of dresses, accessories and outerwear from the 1870s to the 1940s. With texts by fashion historian Tonie Lewenhaupt, among others, the visitor is guided through the exhibition from Victorian tournament fashion to fashion inspired by film stars in the 1930s.

The history of clothing is part of a story about a place in change and shows how a small provincial town abandons its small-town attire in favor of dressing like a continental metropolis.

What the dresses had in common was that they were part of a culture where seeing and being seen was highly valued. In the new city, environments were created for the dressed-up to be seen in, where the city theater's premieres, the concerts in the fountain parks and the art openings were important occasions.

Threads of Time is an exhibition by Helsingborg Museum.

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Dunkers Kulturhus
Kungsgatan 11
Helsingborg
Schweden

weitere Infos: dunkerskulturhus-se.translate.goog/utstallning/tidens-tradar-mode-och-stil-1870-1940-ur-helsingborgs-museums-samlingar/?_x_tr_sl=sv&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de

Superfine: Tailoring Black Style

New York ( USA) > 01.05.2025 - 26.10.2025

The Costume Institute’s spring 2025 exhibition presents a cultural and historical examination of Black style over three hundred years through the concept of dandyism. In the 18th-century Atlantic world, a new culture of consumption, fueled by the slave trade, colonialism, and imperialism, enabled access to clothing and goods that indicated wealth, distinction, and taste. Black dandyism sprung from the intersection of African and European style traditions.

Superfine: Tailoring Black Style explores the importance of style to the formation of Black identities in the Atlantic diaspora, particularly in the United States and Europe. Through a presentation of garments and accessories, paintings, photographs, decorative arts, and more, from the 18th century to today, the exhibition interprets the concept of dandyism as both an aesthetic and a strategy that allowed for new social and political possibilities. Superfine is organized into 12 sections, each representing a characteristic that defines the style, such as Champion, Respectability, Heritage, Beauty, and Cosmopolitanism. Together, these characteristics demonstrate how one’s self-presentation is a mode of distinction and resistance—within a society impacted by race, gender, class, and sexuality.

The exhibition is made possible by Louis Vuitton

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The Metropolitan Art Museum
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York,
NY 10028
Amerika

weitere Infos: www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/superfine-tailoring-black-style

Leibchen, Mieder, Parapluie. 120 Jahre Museum in Großschönau.

Großschönau (D) > 11.05.2025 - 11.10.2025

Leibchen, Mieder, Parapluie. Festkleidung des 19. Jahrhunderts aus unserer Sammlung. Eine Ausstellung anlässlich 120 Jahre Museum in Großschönau.

11.05.2025-19.10.2025
Die Sammlungsgeschichte des heutigen Deutschen Damast- und Frottiermuseums lässt sich bis ins 19. Jahrhundert zurückverfolgen. Ausgehend von der Sammlung regionalgeschichtlich bedeutsamer Objekte durch den Heimatverein Saxonia und den Verein für Ortskunde erfolgte 1905 die Eröffnung des ersten, nach dem Stifter benannten, Krumbholz-Museums in Großschönau. Im Jahr 1947 wurde das Museum unter dem Namen Damast- und Heimatmuseum im sogenannten Kupferhaus errichtet. 1996 und mittlerweile etabliert, erfolgte eine Umbenennung in Deutsches Damast- und Frottiermuseum, um der bedeutsamen Sammlung an Damast- und Frottiergeweben Rechnung zu tragen. Die Spezialisierung des Museums auf Damast- und Frottiergewebe resultiert aus der engen Verbindung der im Ort angewendeten, besonderen Webtechniken mit der Regionalgeschichte. In der Ausstellung wird ein besonderes Sammlungsgebiet in den Fokus gerückt: die Bekleidungssammlung. Die Objekte, welche von den Einwohnerinnen und Einwohnern Großschönaus gefertigt oder getragen wurden, reflektieren den gestalterischen, finanziellen und sozialen Anspruch der Bevölkerung und stellen ein bedeutendes Stück Modegeschichte dar.

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Deutsches Damast- & Frottiermuseum
mit Schauwerkstatt
Schenaustraße 3,
02779 Großschönau
Deutschland

weitere Infos: www.ddfm.de/de/Sonderausstellung/

1925-1955 Fashion in the Spotlight. The origins of Made in Italy

Florenz ( I ) > 18.06.2025 - 28.09.2025

From 18 June to 28 September 2025, the Museum of Fashion and Costume of Pitti Palace will host in four rooms “Fashion in the Spotlight 1925–1955. The origins of Made in Italy”, an exhibition promoted by the Ministry of Culture, organized and created by Archivio Luce Cinecittà in collaboration with the Uffizi Galleries and curated by Fabiana Giacomotti. The exhibition aims to reconstruct thirty fundamental years in the history of Italian fashion, before its definitive international affirmation.
Over fifty items of clothing, accessories and audiovisual and photographic contributions articulate the exhibition path, designed to tell how Italian fashion was defined – between textile innovation, aesthetic research, excellent craftsmanship and commercial strategies – well before the famous fashion show in the Sala Bianca of Pitti Palace in 1952. A narrative that develops over a time span between 1925 and 1955, intertwining little-known episodes with legendary names, so as to provide a new look at the roots of Made in Italy. At the heart of the exhibition is the extraordinary heritage of the Luce Archives, with an important core of photographs and films, many of which are unpublished. The garments and accessories on display come partly from prestigious museums (such as the Boncompagni Ludovisi Museums, Palazzo Madama) and partly from corporate or private archives.

"With this exhibition project, hosted in one of the cities that best tell the world about the exceptionality and greatness of Italian creativity and art, we intend to highlight one of its greatest expressions, fashion. The exhibition is intended as an original historical snapshot of the evolution and affirmation of a sector that has always been synonymous with vision and whose unique creations, the fruit of expert hands, have made and continue to make the flagship of Made in Italy. A national heritage whose importance is well known to the Ministry, which to support its development has implemented a broad strategy based on interventions and financial instruments aimed at increasing its value. A heritage of which the Archivio Luce preserves precious pages, which as a Ministry we have the duty not only to preserve but also to promote in order to pass it on in all its extraordinary nature to future generations", said Senator Lucia Borgonzoni, Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Culture.

“The materials from the Luce Archives constitute the visual and narrative heart of this exhibition”, says Cinecittà President Chiara Sbarigia. “Through films, photographs and newsreels, a mosaic of collective memory is recomposed that tells us about textile experiments, fashion shows held as early as the 1920s and the growing importance of the Italian industry in the processing of silk, viscose in the 1930s and Lanital in the 1940s. Thus emerge the innovations of the fashion industry, the links with Hollywood cinema and the crucial role of many figures – women and men – who, through clothing, have promoted an idea of ​​a modern, creative Italy open to international dialogue. Moda in Luce makes clear how the history of Italian fashion has its roots in a complex process that the Istituto Luce – concludes President Sbarigia – has had the merit, and the responsibility, to follow step by step, recounting its ambitions, contradictions and goals.”

There are works by historic Maisons – some of which have disappeared – such as Ventura, Radice, Tortonese/La Merveilleuse, Gandini, Montorsi, Villa, Fontana, Palmer, Biki, Carosa, alongside famous names such as Maria Monaci Gallenga, Fortuny, Simonetta Visconti, and a very rare piece by the “Tessitrice dell’Isola”, Baroness Gallotti. There is no shortage of signatures that are still known today but were already active in the period: Gucci, which presents its “number one”, an evening bag from the late 1920s never exhibited, Salvatore Ferragamo with the “invisible” sandal from 1947, and Emilio Pucci, on display with the first pieces still labeled “Emilio”. The historical documentation on display is precious, with fabric catalogues, “certificates of Italianness” and rare books, which provide a complete and original picture of Italian fashion.
There are many unpublished works from the 1940s and 1950s by great directors and sound designers such as Romolo Marcellini and Roman Vlad. The exhibition also features the restored version of the documentary “Sette canne per un abiti” (Seven reeds for a dress), made in 1948 by Michelangelo Antonioni. Finally, there are many foreign fashion films that alternate with Italian ones up to the early 1940s and that allow us to trace an unpublished history of the relationship between Italian fashion and that of France and the ocean, both before and immediately after the Second World War.

The director of the Uffizi Galleries Simone Verde adds: “this exhibition allows, through a highly selected anthology of photographs and videos, not only to reconstruct an important moment in the history of fashion, but also to place the clothes in a context that brings them to life because the support of the 'newsreels' and the image as a documentary medium contributes like nothing else to understanding the social function of the dress beyond its aesthetic appearance”.

This exhibition represents an important cultural and rediscovery operation and restores historical dignity and visibility to a period often overlooked in official stories: “Fashion in Light” not only enriches the narrative on Made in Italy, but invites us to question the evolution of taste, visual language and the national fashion system. The installation in the rooms of the Museum of Fashion and Costume seals a story that is not limited to celebration, but that intends to leave a critical and lasting mark on the understanding of Italy’s creative heritage.

“The genesis of Italian fashion reflects the history of the country. It is a narrative told by many voices and in different centers: Venice, where the first collective fashion show of Italian and French fashion was held in 1926, almost at the same time as Milan, and then Turin, where the Ente Nazionale della Moda was founded in 1935. After the Second World War and until the formation of a first national "fashion system" thanks to the project of Giovanni Battista Giorgini and the affirmation of the myth of the Sala Bianca, for five years Italian cities fought to conquer the primacy in a rapidly expanding sector. This exhibition, which presents for the first time a reasoned selection of the immense film, photographic and documentary heritage of the Luce Institute, partly unpublished, as well as fifty garments and accessories from legendary and largely disappeared fashion houses, intends to tell the evolution of Italian style in the thirty years in which its critical and historical conscience was formed, its pride of belonging was consolidated, its textile industry and its supply chain were tested and built, according to a model that remained unique in the world, says Fabiana Giacomotti, curator of the exhibition.

Also, a catalog published by Silvana Editoriale enriches the exhibition.

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Museum of Costume and Fashion of Pitti Palace
Florenz
Italien

weitere Infos: www.uffizi.it/en/events/1925-1955-fashion-the-origins-of-made-in-italy

Virtual Couture Mode 3D – digitalisiert, animiert und interpretiert

Berlin (D) > 20.06. - 14.09.2025

Wie passt das Virtuelle mit der Mode zusammen? Sind nicht die Erfassung von Material und Bewegung, sogar die Haptik und das Geräusch von Stoffen nötig, um Mode in ihrer Gesamtheit erfassen zu können? Im Gegensatz dazu wirkt das Virtuelle oft mechanisch, kühl und emotionslos. Was also macht den besonderen Reiz aus, diese beiden Pole miteinander zu verbinden? Diese Fragen stehen im Mittelpunkt der Ausstellung, die sich dem Thema aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven nähert. Ausgangspunkt ist zunächst das Forschungsprojekt „Virtual Couture. 3D digitale Rekonstruktion und Animation“, das 2024 durchgeführt wurde. Aus dem Sammlungsbestand wurden bislang nicht gezeigte Modelle aus dem späten 18. Jahrhundert sowie Mode der 1920er-Jahre von den Mode-Ikonen Gabrielle Chanel und Jeanne Lanvin sowie ein Haute Couture-Modell von Madame Grès aus den 1970er-Jahren ausgewählt mit dem Ziel, sie animiert und virtuell mehransichtig zeigen zu können. Dazu wurden vorab der historische Kontext mithilfe zeitgenössischer Dokumente erschlossen und die Maße der Modelle abgenommen, um sie digital und dreidimensional zu rekonstruieren. Dieser innovative Ansatz ermöglicht es dem Kunstgewerbemuseum, erstmals Mode in Bewegung zu zeigen und damit die bislang eher statische Sicht auf diesen bedeutenden Sammlungsbestand deutlich zu erweitern. In der Präsentation haben die Besucher*innen nun auch die Möglichkeit, die digitale Rekonstruktion mit den originalen Entwürfen unmittelbar zu vergleichen.

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Veranstalter/ Ort
Kunstgewerbemuseum (kgm)
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Kulturforum Berlin
Johanna und Eduard Arnhold Platz (ehemals Matthäikirchplatz)
10785 Berlin
Deutschland

weitere Infos: www.smb.museum/museen-einrichtungen/kunstgewerbemuseum/ausstellungen/detail/virtual-couture/