The Textile Society

A History of Fashion in 100 Objects
2022-01-01 10:00 - 2022-10-30 17:00 (Europe/London) | Fashion Museum Bath, Assembly Rooms, Bennett Street, Bath, BA1 2QH, United Kingdom
One hundred star objects from the Fashion Museum collection.

A History of Fashion in 100 Objects is a major display celebrating fashion from the 1600s to the present day. Showcasing 100 star objects drawn from the Fashion Museum’s world-class collection, these displays give visitors an instant insight into the era-defining outfits and headline pieces that have shaped our wardrobes over the past 400 years.
Fashion touches everyone’s life – it is intrinsically linked to society – and A History of Fashion in 100 Objects references moments in history, as well as more personal stories. Graceful silk robes and embroidered and tailored coats for men, the styles fashionable during Bath’s Georgian heyday are on show, along with Regency fashion from the time of Jane Austen and dresses by the big names of fashion history, including the House of Worth and Christian Dior.
The display also includes ten shoe ‘moments’ throughout history, from Georgian silk shoes to Nike Air trainers as well as a children’s trail featuring ten ‘historical fashion’ looks for kids, from the 1700s to the 2000s.

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Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear
2022-03-19 10:00 - 2022-08-31 17:00 | V&A, Cromwell Rd, London, SW7 2RL, United Kingdom
Explore how designers, tailors and artists – and their clients and sitters – have constructed and performed masculinity, and unpicked it at the seams.

At a moment of unprecedented creativity in men’s fashion and reflection on gender, we will explore how designers, tailors and artists – and their clients and sitters – have constructed and performed masculinity, and unpicked it at the seams.
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BY THE CUT OF THEIR CLOTH EXHIBITION
2022-05-01 - 2022-12-31 | Online Event
Spanning 300 years of Brent’s mixed race and multicultural history through the lenses of art, photography and fashion, ‘By The Cut of Their Cloth’ (BTCOTC) is our latest online exhibition.

Curated by The Mixed Museum and Brent-based artist and designer Warren Reilly, BTCOTC explores Brent’s rich multicultural and mixed-race histories. In particular, it continues in the tradition of the Brent 2020: London Borough of Culture project ‘Fashioning our History’ by using fashion as a lens to look at marginalised social histories.
We have been thrilled by the interest shown in the project since its start and we are delighted to now be able to share the wonderful material we have collected with you. We hope that the images and family histories uncovered by the project will help us all think about how we can open up and enrich Britain’s archives so that a wider range of the family histories that make up British history can inform us and be enjoyed by us all, now and in the future.
The exhibition is split into seven main sections, including:

Stories of Colonial Brent – A look at Brent’s colonial past
Multiracial Brent – Stories of modern migration and multiculturalism from the Borough of Brent
The Boy From Brent – Curating Warren’s ‘family archive’
Archive Discoveries – What we found in Brent Museum and Archives
Brent Stories – Brent residents and creatives share stories of their mixed-race and multicultural family histories with BTCOTC
Fashioning our History – Exploring stories of racial mixing and multiculturalism using fashion as a lens
Artistic Responses – Encouraging creative responses to historical accounts

We hope that BTCOTC will not only help bring attention to Brent’s long history of racial mixing but also show that the histories of ‘ordinary’ people are just as fascinating and valuable a resource as the stories of more well-known or influential people who are typically included in archive and museum collections.
Visit the exhibition: www.mixedmuseum.org.uk/BTCOTC

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Marvellous Makers, Wondrous Worlds - Raised Embroidery from the 17th century
2022-05-13 10:00 - 2022-09-11 17:00 | The Holburne Museum, Great Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 4DB, United Kingdom
A jewel-like show of exceptional needlework.

The exhibition highlights the Holburne’s important collection of raised embroidery and with a display of complementary loans, allows visitors a close-up look at a host of beautifully crafted objects.
Described as ‘curious work’ by contemporaries in the seventeenth century, these decorative embroidered pictures were mostly made by young, highly skilled non-professional needlewomen in wealthy households, and were designed to display their mastery of the craft. Themes of gender bias; the divide between domestic crafts and the more prestigious and public-facing textile art; and the connections between the materials employed and the trade relationships of the period are all addressed in this fantastic show.

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Africa Fashion
2022-06-11 10:00 - 2022-11-30 17:00 | V&A, Cromwell Rd, London, SW7 2RL, United Kingdom
Africa Fashion will explore the vitality and global impact of a fashion scene as dynamic and varied as the continent itself.

Spanning iconic mid-20th century to contemporary creatives through photographs, textiles, music and the visual arts, Africa Fashion will explore the vitality and global impact of a fashion scene as dynamic and varied as the continent itself.
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