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Exhibitions

Curated by Colleen Hill, in reverse chronological order

Cream wool coat with a blue faux-fur collar and pale green cuffs, its front appliquéd with six embroidered rooms — a sitting room, a bedroom, a kitchen, and a bathroom among them

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Doll Dressing

2026–27
Eleven pairs of earrings hung inside clear glass specimen jars of differing heights, arranged in two ranks on a white ground

Fashioning Wonder: A Cabinet of Curiosities

2025
Detail of a navy silk taffeta gown whose enormous sleeve balloons outward, gathers at the wrist, and falls in deep folds around the mannequin’s hand

Statement Sleeves

2024
Installation view: a mannequin in a black dress and wide grey hat seated on a round red ottoman, before a red wall of pleated paper niches holding shoes, with boots on a console at the right

Shoes: Anatomy, Identity, Magic 

2022
A black nylon Prada backpack with leather drawstrings and the triangular metal logo, worn on a linen dress form

Reinvention and Restlessness: Fashion in the Nineties

2022
A cream silk gown on a linen dress form, its draped bodice heaped with pink, peach, and ivory silk roses and green leaves

Ravishing: The Rose in Fashion 

2021
Willow Bough wallpaper by Morris & Co.: long willow leaves on slender brown stems, in two greens
Installation view: a red draped evening gown beside its illustration, a shift printed with an eye, and a suit painted with eyes, lit blue at the right

Exhibitionism: 50 Years of The Museum at FIT 

2019
A blazer pieced from printed cotton feed sacks, brand lettering running across its lapels, sleeves, and pocket flaps

Fashion Unraveled 

2018
Daisy wallpaper by Morris & Co.: rows of small pink, red, and white meadow flowers above tufts of green leaves
A marigold vinyl raincoat with a rounded collar, covered buttons, a matching belt, and heavy knitted sleeves

Paris Refashioned, 1957–1968

2017
Installation view: six red hooded cloaks and a white wolf-headed figure standing before a painted forest lit in green

Fairy Tale Fashion

2016
Back view of eighteenth-century pale blue silk stays laced with a cord, its tabbed linen skirts flaring at the waist and ribbon bows at the shoulders

Exposed: A History of Lingerie 

2014
Three red platform shoes on stands — one tooled with scrolling gold, one set with crimson rhinestones and gold spikes, and one high embossed boot — among glass cases

Shoe Obsession 

2013
Installation view: a braided riding jacket, a fur-trimmed velvet coat, a black suit with a white fur collar, and a red, white, and blue knit skating ensemble, with lace-up skates in a case

Sporting Life 

2011
Wild Tulip wallpaper by Morris & Co.: cream tulips, bluebells, and carnations on a terracotta ground
A cream linen jacket worn over a pink henley with mint trousers, on a mannequin against a deep blue ground

His & Hers 

2010–11
Installation view: a pieced iridescent jacket, a green patchwork sweater dress, and an orange wrap top over a skirt seamed from many knits

Eco-Fashion: Going Green 

2010
A black tailored jacket worn open over a black bandeau with a halter strap, and black-and-silver patterned trousers, on a white mannequin

Seduction 

2008–9
A black cloche by Caroline Reboux, its glossy brim falling in deep flaps over the ears and banded in black velvet, on a white mannequin head

Arbiters of Style: Women at the Forefront of Fashion 

2008