aktuelle Ausstellungen

Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World

London ( GB ) > 09.10.2025 - 11.01.2026

Cecil Beaton – ‘The King of Vogue’ – was an extraordinary force in the 20th-century British and American creative scenes. Renowned as a fashion illustrator, Oscar-winning costume designer, social caricaturist and writer, Beaton elevated fashion and portrait photography into an art form.

Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World is the first exhibition dedicated solely to Beaton’s ground-breaking contributions to fashion and portrait photography. The exhibition showcases Beaton at his most triumphant – from the Jazz Age and the Bright Young Things, to the high fashion brilliance of the fifties and the glittering, Oscar-winning success of My Fair Lady. Via London, Paris, New York and Hollywood, his era-defining photographs captured beauty, glamour, and star power in the interwar and early post-war eras.

With over 200 items displayed, including photographs, letters, portrait sketches, fashion illustration and costume, Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World features portraits of some of the twentieth century’s most iconic figures, including Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando; Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret; as well as Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and Salvador Dalí.

Text - und Bildquelle : Museumswebsite ( Foto © condé nast)

National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place
London, WC2H 0HE
Groß Britannien

weitere Infos: www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/2025/cecil-beaton/?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JDCOMMSCecilBeaton2025openingday&utm_content=version_A&promo=39208

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/

Wolfgang Joop im Kunstraum

Potsdam (D) > 4.10.2025 – 18.11.2025

Die Ausstellung im Kunstraum Potsdam würdigt das Lebenswerk des international bekannten Künstlers und Designers Wolfgang Joop. Auf 450 m² Ausstellungsfläche wird der Kunstraum Potsdam 2025 eine außergewöhnliche Sonderschau präsentieren, die sowohl das Werk des Kosmopoliten Wolfgang Joops vorstellen als auch Einblicke in sein privates Umfeld gewähren wird. Die Vielseitigkeit des Schaffenswerkes wird anhand von Zeichnungen, Gemälden, Grafiken, Skulpturen, Modedesigns, Entwürfen, sowie Fotografien präsentiert. Die internationale Karriere wird anhand von, zum Teil noch nie gezeigten, zahlreichen Digitalisaten und originalen Ausstellungsobjekten erkundet werden können. Zur Ausstellung erscheint ein Katalog mit Beiträgen von Florian Illies, Gundula Wolter, Melissa Drier u.a.

Öffnungszeiten: Dienstag-Sonntag, 12.00 Uhr bis 20.00 Uhr
AM DONNERSTAG, DEM 09.10., BLEIBT DIE AUSSTELLUNG GESCHLOSSEN.

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Ort
KUNSTRAUM
Schiffbauergasse 6
14467 Potsdam
Deutschland

weitere Infos: www.waschhaus.de/veranstaltungen/wolfgang-joop-im-kunstraum-04-10-2025

Borderless

Trieste ( I ) > 27.03.2025 - 4.1. 2026

Discover the best of a new generation of creatives and let their innovative visions inspire you! This remarkable showcase brings together creations by young fashion and accessory designers selected during ITS Contest 2025 — one of the most prestigious international talent platforms, established in Trieste in 2002, that has contributed to intercept and shape the careers of thousands, including some of the industry’s leading artistic directors.
he works on display, carefully selected by a distinguished jury of international experts, showcase exceptional talent and boundless creativity. You will have the opportunity to vote for your favourite and contribute to the awarding of the next Public’s Choice Award, worth €5,000.

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ITS Arcademy
Via Cassa di Risparmio, 10
34121 Trieste
Italien

weitere Infos: itsweb.org/its-arcademy/whats-on/#exhibitions

Fashionlands – Clothes Beyond Borders

Trieste ( I)> 27.03.2025 - 4.1.2026

This new international exhibition explores fashion's role in transcending traditional boundaries.
The exhibition Fashionlands – Clothes Beyond Borders challenges traditional notions of fashion, revealing its shifting boundaries and examining its impact on culture and society. It is curated by Olivier Saillard, one of the world’s foremost fashion historians, and Emanuele Coccia, a philosopher and author, on their second collaboration for ITS Arcademy.

On the left side of the gallery, discover pieces from the ITS Arcademy Collection — a celebration of two decades of creativity. These works, created by 23 talented emerging designers from all over the world, redefine the limits of clothing design through their poetic, imaginative and daring visions.
Across from them, Gabriele Rosati’s photography series captures the enduring essence of everyday wear. Simple, timeless garments like white shirts, black suits, jeans, and t-shirts have remained largely unchanged for decades, resisting the rapid turnover of seasonal trends. These images explore the archeology of ordinary attire, offering a stark contrast to the experimental and extraordinary pieces on display.

By juxtaposing these two perspectives — utopian creations and the universal language of everyday garments — Fashionlands – Clothes Beyond Borders invites visitors to reflect on the fluidity of fashion’s borders and to rethink what defines style itself, and what we say through our clothes.

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ITS Arcademy
Via Cassa di Risparmio, 10
34121 Trieste,
Italien

weitere Infos: itsweb.org/its-arcademy/whats-on/#exhibitions

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/

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.

Text - und Bildquelle : Museumswebsite ( Foto © Ari Karttunen )

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/