aktuelle Ausstellungen

Accessoires - Objekte der Begierde

Zürich ( CH ) > 18.07.2025 - 12.04.2026

Accessoires waren schon immer mehr als blosse Dekoration: Hüte, Foulards, Handschuhe, Taschen und Schuhe spiegeln soziale, politische und religiöse Zugehörigkeiten, demonstrieren Macht und Status, schützen und formen den Körper oder stehen für modischen Fortschritt. Die Ausstellung zeigt anhand von Objekten aus der Sammlung des Schweizerischen Nationalmuseums, wie Accessoires vom gesellschaftlichen Wandel geprägt sind. Von den strikten Kleidervorschriften der frühen Neuzeit bis zum Spiel mit den Geschlechternormen der Gegenwart wirft die Ausstellung einen Blick auf Modegeschichte «von Kopf bis Fuss».

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Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum Landesmuseum Zürich Museumstrasse 2
Zürich
Schweiz

weitere Infos: www.landesmuseum.ch/accessoires#ausstellung

Draped – Art of Printed Fabrics

Espoo ( FI )> 12.02.2025 - 14.03.2027

Draped is an exhibition dedicated to printed fabrics – an artform that drapes our homes, bodies, and memories. Patterns and colour combinations arranged on fabric intertwine with our lives. They serve to touch, communicate, convey, remember, and remind. Through them, we create identities and individuality, along with comfort and a sense of belonging. 

Printed fabric plays a central role in the history, present day, and future of Finnish design. The exhibition showcases printed fabrics by 31 designers, spanning from the 1930s to today. Familiar patterns are viewed from an artistic perspective, with a special focus on the 1950s to 1980s, a period when fabric design in Finland expanded and began gaining international acclaim.  

Alongside beloved classics, the exhibition also features textiles from lesser-known yet extraordinary designers. Both hand-printed and industrially produced fabrics are showcased, blending artistic expression with technical innovation.

The exhibition opens in a space surrounded by the Bryk & Wirkkala visible storage, where changing exhibitions bring the life’s work of Rut Bryk and Tapio Wirkkala into dialogue with design classics and contemporary artists.

Draped – Art of Printed Fabric consists of work by: Jalmari Aarnio, Rut Bryk, Maija Fagerlund, Viola Gråsten, Pirkko Hammarberg, Saara Hirvisalo, Fujiwo Ishimoto, Maija Isola, Kaarina Kellomäki, Juhani Konttinen, Raili Konttinen, Emilia Kuurila, Maija Lavonen, Aino Marsio-Aalto, Marjatta Metsovaara, Vuokko Nurmesniemi, Matti Pikkujämsä, Markku Piri, Lena Rewell, Eero Rislakki, Jenni Rope, Maarit Salolainen, Pi (Ann-Mari) Sarpaneva, Timo Sarpaneva, Anna Semi, Howard Smith, Nana (Anneli) Suni, Eva Taimi, Anja Terho, Edward Terzibasiyan and Tapio Wirkkala. Also presented are works pieces from Aalto University’s New Landscapes in Textile Design project.

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Espoo Museum of modern Art
EMMA
Exhibition Centre WeeGee
Ahertajantie 5, Tapiola
Espoo
Finland

weitere Infos: emmamuseum.fi/en/exhibitions/draped-art-of-printed-fabrics/

Unpicking Couture

Manchester ( GB)> 21.07. 2023 - 04.01 2026

Unpicking Couture premieres spectacular high-end fashion which has recently entered Manchester Art Gallery’s collection.

Created by influential designers and fashion houses, each outfit represents a groundbreaking moment in fashion and includes works by Christian Dior, Elsa Schiaparelli, Azzedine Alaïa, Cristobal Balenciaga, Pierre Cardin, Vivienne Westwood, Yohji Yamamoto, Bruce Oldfield and Alexander McQueen.

This exhibition celebrates pioneering creativity and design.
The two main themes of the show are: investigating the links between fashion and emotions, in the form of dopamine dressing which encourages dressing for joy, and focusing on repair and restoration, inviting us to consider the lifecycle of a garment and the way it is valued and cared for.

The exhibition will reveal the recent restoration of a 1930s silk velvet jacket by Italian couturier Elsa Schiaparelli, Unpicking Couture promotes sustainable approaches to repairing and preserving much loved and well-worn clothes.

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Manchester art Gallery
Mosley Street,
Manchester,
M2 3JL
Groß Britannien

weitere Infos: manchesterartgallery.org/event/unpicking-couture/

Body by Design: Fashionable Silhouettes from the Ideal to the Real

Deerfield ( USA) > 03.05. 2025 - 04.01. 2026

Opening at the Flynt Center on May 3, Body by Design will explore the enduring interest in clothing our bodies to achieve fashionable shapes.

The exhibition will feature twenty-five ensembles from the 18th to 21st centuries drawn predominantly from Historic Deerfield’s renowned clothing collection. Displayed along with the historical garments will be the understructures – stays, corsets, hoops skirts, and bustles – that helped shape, exaggerate, or reduce bodies to fit fashionable ideals.

The show will follow a loose chronological organization starting with two garments from the 1760’s – a woman’s formal dress with exaggerated wide skirt supported by hooped petticoats and a man’s pink and gold brocaded suit. Fashions from the 19th century will highlight huge sleeves, corseted torsos, and skirts that were supported by crinolines and bustles. Fashion plates from the museum’s collection will help contextualize styles within their time while select modern fashions, juxtaposed with historical garments, will offer interesting connections between the past and today.

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Flynt Center of Early New England Life
37 Old Main Street
Deerfield, MA 01342
Amerika

weitere Infos: www.historic-deerfield.org/events/body-by-design-fashionable-silhouettes-from-the-ideal-to-the-real/

Tafelgoed, tafelbeter

Tilbourg ( NL ) >24 .05.2025 -10. 01.2027

Setting the table sustainably

Diaper damask - a simple form of damask - was one of the inspirations to develop a new, everyday tableware for our own label. For the design, we invited Eindhoven-based Envisions. But we gave them and ourselves an additional challenge: Make a product as sustainable as possible. In this expo, we show this extensive design process.

n the past, fabrics were not designed with sustainability in mind as we increasingly do now. Yet textiles from back then can be insightful for sustainable ambitions today. To develop new sustainable tableware for the label by TextielMuseum, the designers of Envisions drew inspiration from historical diaper damask from the TextielMuseum's collection.

The exhibition shows the tableware of the past that inspires today's designers, how a sustainable design comes about and the considerations involved. The central question is: what can we learn from the textiles of the past, and how can we set the table even better?

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textiel Museum Textil Lab
Goirkestraat 96
5046 GN Tilburg
Niederlande

weitere Infos: textielmuseum.nl/en/exhibitions/setting-the-table-sustainably

Reboot Fashion

Borås ( S ) > Dauerausstellung

This exhibition explores the path towards a circular textile future through innovative production methods, while also inviting individuals to engage and influence change.

The fashion industry needs a reboot. Clothing and fashion are fun, creative, and a way to communicate. At the same time, the global textile and fashion industry is a threat to people, the environment, and the climate. Low prices and persuasive advertising lead to overflowing wardrobes. The textile industry consumes significant amounts of natural resources, creates pollution, and in many countries, working conditions are poor. It is a problem without easy solutions. A fundamental change is needed from both companies and consumers.

The Reboot Fashion exhibition presents examples of innovative thinking from companies and researchers within the industry, along with practical tips on how to care for your wardrobe to make it more sustainable. The exhibition also presents examples from history, underscoring the sustainable thinking that was once ingrained in society.

The new permanent exhibition will be a forward-looking complement to the two existing permanent exhibitions, Textile Power and Clothes & Couture, which chronicle the textile industry's impact on Borås's development and the evolution of fashion in the 20th century.

Reboot Fashion provides insight into the climate and environmental impact of fashion, but also shows that everyone can do something to improve the situation.
Production

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Textielmuseet
Textil Fashion Center
Skaraborgsvägen 3A,
Borås
Schweden

weitere Infos: textilmuseet.se/en/exhibitions/exhibitions/2024-05-07-reboot-fashion

Das Provenzalische Trachten- und Schmuckmuseum

Grasse ( F ) > Dauerausstellung

Das Museum für Provenzalische Trachten und Schmuck befindet sich am Eingang zur Altstadt von Grasse im einstigen Wohnsitz der Marquise von Cabris, der Schwester von Mirabeau. In dem vornehmen, geschichtsträchtigen Anwesen, in dem nicht länger das rege Treiben des früher hier untergebrachten Revolutionstribunals herrscht, liegt rund um ein wunderschönes Treppenhaus verteilt eine Reihe kleiner gemütlicher Salons, die Besucher zum Flanieren einladen.

Das Museum zeigt heutzutage eine Sammlung, die aufgrund der Qualität und der Vielfalt der Kleidungs- und Schmuckstücke, die aus dem 18. bis Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts stammen, einzigartig ist: Röcke, Caracos, Korsetts, Droulets (Art Trachtenjacke), Chatelaines, Kreuze, Ohrringe, usw. Das bahnbrechende Museum ist heute eines der ganz wenigen, die ausschließlich traditionellen Kleidungs- und Schmuckstücken aus der Vergangenheit der Provence gewidmet ist.

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FRAGONARD PARFUMEUR
2 rue Jean Ossola
06130 Grasse
Frankreich

weitere Infos: usines-parfum.fragonard.com/de/museen/das-provenzalische-trachten-und-schmuckmuseum/

Collections Collection

Arles ( F ) > 06.07.2025 - 04.01 2026

The first exhibition of the Fashion and Costume Museum

After five years of renovations and restoration, the Musée de la Mode et du Costume (Museum of Fashion and Costume) finally opens its doors. This exceptional venue invites the public to discover custom-designed exhibition spaces at the heart of the building, including a large gallery on the first floor.

For its first exhibition, Collections-Collection, the museum brings together two collections located at the extreme ends of Provence. This fusion lends exceptional richness to the celebration of the history of costume from the French Mediterranean region and the history of textiles. Through a chronological journey, this exhibition offers the public a comprehensive overview of fashion in Provence since the 18th century. Emblematic costumes, and major pieces from the Costa and Pascal collections, are finally taking their place in the display cases of this long-awaited new museum.

At the request of the Fragonard house, Charles Fréger created for the future Musée de la Mode et du Costume, the only permanent work, depicting Arlesiennes against the light. Between reality and imagination, this internationally renowned photographer devotes himself to groups of belonging and their external symbols. Insatiable, he travels the globe and produces series of flamboyant portraits that capture the individual in his environment and question the creation of archetypal figures. Between poetry and pictorial rigor, his work gives pride of place to the collective: whether in uniforms, work clothes, or colorful masquerade costumes.

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Musée de la Mode et du Costume
16 rue de la Calade
13200 Arles
Frankreich

weitere Infos: musee-mode-costume.fragonard.com/en/collections-collection-2-1261/

Rick Owens, Temple of Love

Paris (F) > 28.06.2025 - 04.01.2026

The Palais Galliera is holding the first exhibition in Paris dedicated to the work of avant-garde fashion designer Rick Owens. It features collections from his early beginnings in Los Angeles through to his most recent. With a fascination for spiritual ritual, his creations draw on a wide range of references, from Joris-Karl Huysmans to modern and contemporary art, as well as the great Hollywood films of the early 20th century. Rick Owens himself is the exhibition's artistic director and he has worked with the curation of the Palais Galliera to create an exhibition trail that extends to the façade of the museum as well as its garden.

Text - und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite ( Foto © Rick Owens)

Palais Galliera
Musee de la Modes
10 av. Pierre 1er de Serbie
75116 Paris
Frankreich

weitere Infos: www.palaisgalliera.paris.fr/en/exhibitions/rick-owens-temple-love

Bonnet Silk Museum

Jujurieux (F) > Dauerausstellung

Discover the wealth of fabrics, the secrets of their manufacture and the trades that brought them to life at the Musée des Soieries Bonnet. A multicolored, shimmering heritage, a piece of working-class life and an industrial history emblematic of the Lyon region. The museum invites you on a journey between the sensuality of the materials and the exceptional skills of the weavers, spinners and seamstresses. Close to the capital of silk and its famous Canuts, this boarding mill wove miles of delicate silks, rich taffetas, fragile muslins… sumptuous, shimmering fabrics that made fashion from the mid-19th to the early 21st century. Bonnet silks have inspired the greatest haute couture houses, from Dior to Chanel, from Yves Saint-Laurent to Lanvin, from Lacroix to Valentino… You’ll be dazzled by the beauty and richness of the fabrics and garments on display at the museum, veritable works of art celebrating the excellence of an internationally recognized savoir-faire.

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Bonnet Silk Factories
19 bis rue Claude Joseph Bonnet, Parking Place Marcel GRILLET,
01640 Jujurieux
Frankreich