aktuelle Ausstellungen

WEAVING, EMBROIDERING, EMBELLISHING. The Crafts and Trades of Fashion

Paris ( F ) > 13.12.2025 - 18.10.2026

In December 2025, the Palais Galliera is launching a series of exhibitions devoted to the skills and crafts involved in Parisian fashions. The three successive exhibitions will explore the specialised jobs and techniques in the fashion industry from different angles, showcasing items from the museum's stunning collections and offering a fresh perspective on the history of fashion from the 18th century to the present day.

This first exhibition is devoted to the decorative crafts used to embellish and decorate garments and accessories: weaving, printing, embroidering, lacemaking and artificial flowers. The theme chosen to explore these techniques is the flower, a motif which has featured prominently in textile art and fashion since the 18th century. The many variations on the theme reveal the interplay of textures, the treatment of colours and volumes and details inspired by the changing seasons. From the brocade fabric of an 18th century waistcoat to the laser prints of a Balenciaga ensemble; a piece of Chantilly lacework to Gabrielle Chanel's famous camellia, the exhibition highlights the wide variety of techniques involved, while at the same time exploring their symbolism and applications.

With over 350 pieces (garments, accessories, photographs, graphic art, samples, tools, etc.), the exhibition features creations from haute couture houses as well as pieces by young designers, some of which have been made especially for the exhibition. Textile samples and tables equipped with magnifying glasses have been provided in order for the public to examine the pieces and, by studying them, to appreciate the complexity of the craftsmanship involved in each design. It is a unique opportunity to gain an insight into the very special skills and know-how of those who work in the fashion industry.

The Palais Galliera is also paying tribute to the people behind these skills, who are often forgotten or lesser known by the prestigious name of a couturier. Whether they are traditional Maisons such as Lesage or Hurel, or newer, contemporary players like Baqué Molinié or Aurélia Leblanc, the exhibition reviews these often unsung craftspeople of fashion: the textile designers, embroiderers, feather workers, and floral makers, who have made Paris the cosmopolitan capital and prime location for their exceptional skills, which they maintain in a constant state of innovation and renewal.

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

weitere Infos: www.palaisgalliera.paris.fr/en/exhibitions/weaving-embroidering-embellishing-crafts-and-trades-fashion

Paint! Pattern! Print!

London ( GB) > 26.03.2026 - 13.09.2026

Presenting a diverse range of material from the Collier Campbell Archive, Paint! Pattern! Print! invites us into the exuberant world of pioneering designers Susan Collier and Sarah Campbell. Discover their creative journey from the first strokes of the paintbrush to the finished artworks and translation from design to textiles, fashion and homeware.

Sisters Susan Collier and Sarah Campbell worked alongside each other for over 50 years, creating vibrant painterly patterns that transformed printed fabric and the world of interiors. Their highly successful and prolific partnership as Collier Campbell brought British design to global audiences collaborating with brands such as Liberty’s, Heals and Jaeger.

Experimental and innovative from the start, the sisters became pioneers, taking control of the whole process from raw to finished printed cloth as designer converters. As a result, they were able to retain the rights to their own designs as well as develop their own colours and control the quality of both the cloth and the printing. For two women to enter the world of manufacture, approaching companies and making deals was groundbreaking. It was also a bold move at a time when Britain was facing a recession.

Today Sarah Campbell continues this process in her independent creative journey inspired as always by her passion for painting, pattern and print.

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Fashion +Textile Museum
83 Bermondsey Street
London SE1 3XF
Groß Britannien

weitere Infos: fashiontextilemuseum.org/exhibitionsdisplays/paint-pattern-print/?date_from=20260327&date_to=20260913

Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Style

London ( GB) >10.04.2026 - 18.10.2026

Discover the remarkable style of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch through clothing worn in all ten decades of her life - from birth to adulthood, from princess to queen, and from off-duty style to dressing for the global stage for momentous occasions in Britain’s history.

Featuring approximately 200 items, many on display for the first time, this is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of the late Queen’s fashion ever mounted.

Alongside clothing, jewellery, hats, shoes and accessories, explore never-before-seen design sketches, fabric samples and handwritten correspondence that reveal the behind-the-scenes process of dressing the most famous woman in the world and shed new light on the late Queen’s close involvement in the creation of her wardrobe.

Highlights include her bridesmaid dress, wedding dress, Coronation dress and the ensemble worn for the wedding of Princess Margaret.

Text - und Bildquelle : Museumswebsite ( Foto : © Cecil Beaton )

The King's Gallery,
Buckingham Palace
London SW1A 1AA,
Groß Britannien

weitere Infos: www.rct.uk/collection/exhibitions/queen-elizabeth-ii-her-life-in-style/the-kings-gallery-buckingham-palace

The Edwardians: Age of Elegance

Edinburgh ( GB) > 24.04.2026 - 06.12.2026

Explore the opulence and glamour of the Edwardian age through the lives and tastes of two of Britain’s most fashionable royal couples – King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, and King George V and Queen Mary – from their family lives and personal collecting to their glittering social circles and spectacular royal events.

Discover works by the most renowned contemporary artists of the period, including Carl Fabergé, Frederic Leighton, Edward Burne-Jones, Rosa Bonheur and John Singer Sargent.

The exhibition covers the period from Edward and Alexandra's wedding in 1863 up to the end of the First World War.

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The King's Gallery,
Palace of Holyroodhouse
Canongate The Royal Mile, Edinburgh EH8 8DX
Groß Britannien

weitere Infos: www.rct.uk/collection/exhibitions/the-edwardians-age-of-elegance/the-kings-gallery-palace-of-holyroodhouse

Embrodering Palestine

Antwerpen ( B ) >13.12.2025 - 13.06.2026

Stickerei – Tatreez auf Arabisch – ist die bedeutendste kulturelle Praxis Palästinas. Die traditionelle palästinensische Kleidung war lange Zeit durch regionale Vielfalt geprägt: Jede Region war erkennbar an spezifischen Stoffarten, Farben, Mustern und Sticktechniken. Im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert war Tatreez mehr als ein Handwerk – es war eine visuelle Sprache, die Frauen miteinander teilten. Jedes Stickstück erzählte etwas über Herkunft und Identität der Trägerin.

Diese Ausstellung beleuchtet palästinensische Stickerei und Kleidung anhand von vier Themen: Natur, Pracht, Kraft und Wandel. Tatreez entstand in einem ländlichen Kontext und spiegelte die enge Verbindung zwischen Frauen und ihrer Umgebung wider – von floralen Motiven bis zu mit Galiläischem Indigo gefärbten Stoffen. Gleichzeitig stand Stickerei auch für Status und Wohlstand – besonders rund um die Hochzeit, einem wichtigen Übergangsritus, wurde mit festlicher Kleidung groß aufgewartet. Goldfäden, Perlmutt-Schuhe und kunstvoll verzierte Kopfbedeckungen zeugen von der Raffinesse des Handwerks. Silberne Schmuckstücke und bestimmte Stickmotive hatten zudem eine schützende, fast magische Bedeutung und zeigen, wie Kleidung den Körper stärken oder bewahren konnte.

Heute liegt die Kraft der Stickerei vor allem in ihrer symbolischen Bedeutung: Sie ist ein greifbarer Ausdruck palästinensischer Identität und kollektiven Widerstands. Seit der Nakba („Katastrophe“) von 1948, bei der Hunderttausende Palästinenser:innen vertrieben wurden, entwickelte sich Tatreez zu einer Form kulturellen Widerstands. Die Ausstellung zeigt die Politisierung dieses Handwerks und wie es bis heute zeitgenössische palästinensische Designer*innen inspiriert.

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Modemuseum Antwerpen
Nationalestraat 28
2000 Antwerpen
Belgien

weitere Infos: www.momu.be/de/exhibitions/embroidering-palestine

Hat Couture

Stockholm ( S ) 24.10.2025 - 26.10.2026

Hat Couture – royal hat fashion in the Royal Armoury

A colorful exhibition about the imaginative accessory hat. Here you will be shown creative retro hats borne by royal ladies as well as modern creations exclusively borrowed from Princess Christina and Princess Sofia.

The hat was obvious to wear in the mid-20th century – a time that can be described as the golden age of the hat. Colorful pill cans, fancy turbans and flowering creations gave the look that little extra.

Hat Couture – royal hat fashion in the Living Room, royal hats from the museum’s collections are shown for the first time in an exhibition. The headgears have belonged to Queen Louise as well as Princesses Sibylla and Margaretha, and have been used in accordance with the royal dress code in both festive and more mundane contexts.

Text - und Bildquelle : Museumswebsite ( Foto ©Jens Mohr, Livrustkammaren/SHM.)

Livrustkammaren
Slottsbacken 3,
111 30 Stockholm
Schweden

weitere Infos: livrustkammaren.se/utstallningar/hatt-couture/

Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art

London ( GB) > 21.03.2026 -

"In difficult times fashion is always outrageous." – Elsa Schiaparelli
Exhibition

The UK’s first exhibition on Elsa Schiaparelli spans the 1920s to today, celebrating the innovative designer's influence. It traces the fashion house’s groundbreaking origins and its evolution under current creative director Daniel Roseberry.

V&A
South Kensington
Cromwell Road,
London, SW7 2RL
Groß Britannien

weitere Infos: www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/schiaparelli

Accessoires

Lerwick ( GB ) > all year

Exhibitions are an essential aspect of our work to provide access to the Collection. They are held annually at the Böd focussing on a theme related to Shetland Textiles, and change every year.

This years main exhibition is called Accessories

We have a wide range of accessories from hats, gloves to underwear. We also have some of the items necessary to produce the garments, spinning wheels, wool winders, glove boards, knitting belts even niddy noddies!

In addition we have a display of work by Deirde Nelson called the dangers of sewing and knitting. This is a small part of an exhibition she produced some years ago, and kindly donated the Shetland elements to our Museum.

In the Loom Room we have a rather splendid Taatit rug and a selection of items knitted in different types of wool.

There is of course the muckle gravit [big scarf] which is going to be 20 years old later this year. We hope as many visitors as possible will add to it.

In our other exhibition we are showcasing the the work of Zena Thomson, a well known and much respected knitter. This shows the range of her talent.

In 1998 she was commissioned by Queen Elizabeth II to make a shawl for the Queen to present to the Empress of Japan during the State Visit of the Emperor and the Empress to the UK.

The letters and a copy of the shawl take pride of place in this exhibition.

We are grateful to her family for the loan of this work.

Our main exhibition for 2023 celebrated the union of the home-based machine and hand knitter.

Since the fifties home based knitting machines were common in Shetland homes. Many a Shetlander remembers falling asleep to the background noise of the knitting machine. The knitters were both men and women, and even children who would knit for pocket money. The introduction of these machines back in the thirties helped to preserve and expand traditional Shetland knitting.

Machine knitting gave women the opportunity to be business women with many employing family and neighbours to help produce garments which could be sold privately and not through the local merchants.

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Shetland Textile Museum
Bod of Gremista, Gremista Industrial Estate, Lerwick, Shetland ZE1 0PX, Groß Britannien

weitere Infos: www.shetlandtextilemuseum.com/about-us/

XULY.Bët Funkin’ Fashion Factory 100% Recycled

Hamburg ( D ) >01.08.2025 - 01.08.2027

Große Schriftzeichen, selbstbewusste Statements und recycelte Textilien – das sind die Erkennungsmerkmale des Pariser Modelabels XULY.Bët. Das MK&G widmet dem innovativen Label des Designers Lamine Kouyaté eine Einzelausstellung in der Modewelle und zeigt neben den Neuerwerbungen der Sammlung Mode und Textil ausgewählte Stücke aus den Kollektionen der letzten Jahre.

Das 1991 von Lamine Kouyaté (* 1962) in Paris gegründete Modehaus XULY.Bët produziert tragbare Mode aus Secondhand-Textilien. Der Name des Labels stammt aus der westafrikanischen Sprache Wolof und bedeutet „die Augen offenhalten“. In der Kombination von Alltags- und Sportkleidung mit dem eleganten Stil der Pariser Haute Couture bricht XULY.Bët in den 1990er Jahren mit dem Zeitgeist der Modewelt: Nach außen gekehrte Nähte, schräg angesetzte Schnitte, rote Fäden und die Zusammensetzung mehrerer Einzelstücke, die großflächig mit aktivistischen Botschaften und Produktinformationen bedruckt werden. Im Vordergrund stehen die sichtbare Weiterverarbeitung und die ganzheitlich nachhaltige Produktion der Kleidungsstücke. Lamine Kouyaté wurde von seiner Mutter und Großmutter inspiriert, die die Kleidungsstücke der Familie immer wieder aufbereiteten. Die Ausstellung im MK&G stellt Fragen nach den Grenzen der Modeindustrie und Textilproduktion, der Kreislaufwirtschaft und der der Wechselwirkung von Körper und Konsum.

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Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe
Steintorplatz
20099 Hamburg
Deutschland

weitere Infos: www.mkg-hamburg.de/ausstellungen/xulybet

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?

Text - und Bildquelle : Museumswebsite ( Foto :© Patty van den Elsout)

textiel Museum Textil Lab
Goirkestraat 96
5046 GN Tilburg
Niederlande

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