This year a rare and glittering ‘Silver Tissue’ dress worn at the court of King Charles II, beautifully embroidered gowns made by the House of Worth for Lady Curzon in her role as Vicereine of India in the early 1900s, and a white PVC raincoat designed by Mary Quant in the Swinging Sixties are just some of the many treasures from the Fashion Museum collection to star in exhibitions around the world.
The curatorial team have been hard at work making sure that some of the museum’s most stunning pieces can still be seen and enjoyed. Items from the collection will take centre stage in exhibitions across the UK as well as in Paris, Zurich and Mumbai.
Bath’s incredibly rare Silver Tissue Dress, worn to the court of Charles II, will feature alongside contemporary gowns worn by Lizzo and Lady Gaga in Crown to Couture, a new must-see exhibition at Kensington Palace; a beautiful 1760s court mantua and other eighteenth century treasures will go on display at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace in Style & Society: Dressing the Georgians; exquisitely embroidered early twentieth century gowns worn by the Vicereine of India will star in India in Fashion: The Impact of Indian Dress and Textiles on the Fashionable Imagination opening at Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre, Mumbai; and a range of stylish evening wear will be heading to a new exhibition celebrating fashion’s enduring fascination with the ‘little black dress’ at the National Museum of Scotland.
Twelve major exhibitions are already confirmed:
- Tartan at V&A Dundee, Scotland – opening 1 April 2023 until 14 January 2024
- India in Fashion: The Impact of Indian Dress and Textiles on the Fashionable Imagination at Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre, Mumbai, India – opening 3 April 2023 until 4 June 2023
- Crown to Couture at Kensington Palace, London – opening 5 April 2023 until 29 October 2023
- Style & Society: Dressing the Georgians at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London – opening 21 April 2023 until 8 October 2023
- Mary Quant: Fashion Revolutionary at Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland – opening April 2023
- Beyond the Little Black Dress at National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland – opening 1 July 2023 until 29 October 2023
- Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion & Design at Ashmolean Museum, Oxford – opening 21 September 2023
- Treasures of Gold & Silver at Guildhall Art Gallery, London – opening 29 September 2023
- Bloomsbury & Fashion at Charleston House, East Sussex – opening September 2023 until April 2024
- Kimono at the Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France until 28 May 2023 then opening at Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland from September 2023
- The Cult of Beauty at Wellcome Collection, London - opening 26 October 2023
- Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners shaped global style at Museum of London Docklands, London – opening 13 October 2023 until 14 April 2024
