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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. 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. 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. 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.
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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. - 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. - 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.
Text - und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite (Foto © Paula Virta)
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EMMA Museum
Exhibition Centre WeeGee
Ahertajantie 5, Tapiola
Espoo
Finnland
weitere Infos: emmamuseum.fi/en/exhibitions/social-fabric/
Costumes from Badehotellet
Svendborg (DK) > 16.04. - 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.
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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. - 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
USA
weitere Infos: www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/superfine-tailoring-black-style
Leibchen, Mieder, Parapluie. 120 Jahre Museum in Großschönau.
Großschönau (D) > 11.05. - 11.10.2025
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.
Text - und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite (Foto: © Brita Lotz)
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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. - 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.
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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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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/
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