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Region VIII membership includes individuals,
corporations, institutions and students located in the following locations: Australia, Austria, Finland, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Scotland, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey and United Kingdom.
The Region VIII Exhibitions Calendar lists exhibitions of costume, lectures and workshops. Please note that the dates of exhibitions may change. If no beginning date is given, the exhibition is already open.
To have your costume-related exhibition, lecture or workshop included on the Region VIII Exhibitions Calendar, please click on "Send us Your News" found in the left-side navigational bar. Please include the following facts concerning the event: location, contact information, web link, title, dates and brief description. CSA reserves the right to edit submissions to meet space and content restrictions. Please allow up to 2 weeks for your submission to appear online. Thank you.
Centre National du Costume de Scene
Quartier Villars, Route de Montilly, Moulins, France
http://www.cncs.fr/
Costumes of Power
January 26 - May 20, 2013
The gods of Olympus to sovereign anointed of God, the sword in the brush, the Republic of the dictatorships...the exhibition will focus on showing how the stage and cinema treat the representation of power, the simple evocation to the reconstitution faithful of famous portraits of sovereigns.
Further information
Fashion Museum Province of Antwerp – MoMu
Nationalestraat 28
2000 Antwerp, Belgium
http://www.momu.be
Madame Gres - Sculptural Fashion
September 12, 2012 - February 10, 2013
This exhibition is an overview of the work of the Parisian couturier, Madame Grès (1903– 1993).
Further information
Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Shatin
1 Man Lam Road, Sha Tin, Hong Kong
http://www.heritagemuseum.gov.hk/eng/attractions/attractions.aspx
Cantonese Opera Heritage Hall
Permanent Exhibition
This gallery relates the history and explains the art of Cantonese Opera. Showcased are some valuable items once used by renowned Cantonese Opera artists.
Museo de la Moda
4562 Vitacura Avenue, Vitacura, Santiago, Chile
http://museodelamoda.cl/index_english.html
Back to the 80s
The 80s was a cocktail of contradictions. A time of effervescence in the arts, and crisis and changes in politics. While the Eastern bloc disintegrated, dictatorships were prolonged and AIDS ravaged entire countries.
Fashion became a recreational extravaganza through which designers expressed their individuality, abandoned the distinction between good and bad taste and sensed the imminence of a technological future. Inspired by film, arts, music, discos, sports and the streets.
Further information
Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
Piazza Santa Trinita 5 50123 Florence, Italy
http://www.museoferragamo.it/en/index.php
Marilyn
Through
January 28, 2013
The Salvatore Ferragamo Museum pays homage to Marilyn Monroe with a major exhibition dedicated to her a half century after her death.
The curators have sought to interpret the genesis of certain famous photographs of the Marilyn myth, female spiritualized icon, pop icon, in classic poses, with art works representing the memory of similar poses and expressions.
Further information
Museum of New Zealand
55 Cable Street, Wellington, New Zealand, 6011
http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/pages/default.aspx
Uniformity: Cracking the Dress Code
September 27, 2012 -
September 15, 2013
What’s in a uniform?
From the battlefield to the sports field, the church to the catwalk, the schoolyard to the street ... uniforms are everywhere. They inspire unity. They define. They convey power and control.
Te Papa’s new exhibition, Uniformity: Cracking the dress code, explores the meanings and origins of uniforms, which often have military or religious roots.
Get a close-up look at the combat dress worn by Corporal Willie Apiata, VC in the deserts of Afghanistan. See the heavenly attire of a Catholic priest alongside the down-to-business suit of Brian Tamaki. Compare the rugged All Black jersey of a century ago with the skin-tight ‘strip’ of today.
Even Play School makes an appearance, through Big Ted’s ‘police bear’ outfit. And you can explore a range of T-shirts that, like uniforms, express shared ideas – particularly protest.
Some aspects of uniformity are now so commonplace, they are almost invisible. You might be surprised ...
Further information
Tassenmuseum Hendrikje, Museum of Bags and Purses
Herengracht 573, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
http://www.museumofbagsandpurses.com/
Extraordinary
September 18, 2012 - March 10, 2013
Extraordinary, an exhibition of unusually shaped handbags includes conceptual and crafts manly achievements in handbags with refreshing and unusual forms. These forms have been created by adopting an existing form as the point of departure or by taking a conceptual approach to form and content. The exhibition Extraordinary attests to the great craftsmanship and creativity involved in the design of specially shaped handbags.
The Fashion Museum
Bennett Street, Bath, England, BA1 2QH
http://www.museumofcostume.co.uk/
50 Fabulous Frocks!
February 2 - December 31, 2013
The Fashion Museum in Bath celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2013 with a special display that will showcase 50 of its most glamorous dresses with the wow factor!
The exhibition will include a gorgeous gold embroidered Georgian court dress and a delicate 1870s gauze bustle day dress edged with purple fringing and redolent of the paintings of Tissot alongside a slinky jersey evening dress by Ossie Clark and a classic chic Chanel suit. will feature the iconic and influential names of 20th century couture - Schiaparelli, Poiret, Vionnet, Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent – as well as today’s most desired fashion designers and brands - Erdem, Burberry, John Rocha. This display will show both the richness of the museum collection as well as key moments in fashion history that continue to provide inspiration for modern day designers along with TV and film makers - think Downton Abbey, The Great Gatsby and Anna Karenina. The display will also include delightfully curious pieces from the Fashion Museum’s world-class collection of original objects, such as a Champagne Dress worn at a fancy dress party in Edwardian times. And men will not be forgotten, from an ornately embroidered man’s coat from the early 18th century through to a pair of bondage trousers by Dame Vivienne Westwood, Queen of Punk.
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Laura Ashley: The Romantic Heroine
July 13 - August 26, 2013
To celebrate the 60th anniversary in 2013 of the founding of the Laura Ashley label, the Fashion Museum celebrates the vision of the romantic heroine that Laura Ashley gave to fashion in the 1960s and 1970s. A look that fashion editor Felicity Green, referred to in the Daily Mirror on January 1st 1970 as ‘soft-core femininity’ and ‘Victorian type demureness’. A look that prompted a generation of young women to dress up as Thomas Hardy’s milkmaid from Tess of the d’Urbevilles, or Cathy from Wuthering Heights searching in vain across the northern moors for Heathcliff.
The exhibition will focus on the dresses that caught the imagination and chimed with the zeitgeist. By the tail end of the Swinging Sixties the bright and shiny bubble of optimism had burst and so designers found inspiration, and comfort, in nostalgia for times gone by. There was an appetite for escapism and a move back to nature. TV and film hits included Upstairs Downstairs, The Good Life and Far From the Madding Crowd while fashion fans shopped at Antiquarius on the Kings Road and collected Art Nouveau and Aubrey Beardsley prints.
Laura Ashley gave the world the chaste cotton print maxi-dress in earth-hewn natural colours and a notion of life in a golden age; a pastoral idyll far away from the mad city life.
Further information
The Fashion and Textile Museum
83 Bermondsey Street, London, England, SE1 3XF
http://www.ftmlondon.org/
By Royal Appointment
November 16, 2012 - February 23, 2013
An exhibition of London couture fashion by the designers to H.M. The Queen: Norman Hartnell, Hardy Amies and Frederick Fox. By Royal Appointment celebrates the timeless elegance of London couture and explores how the Queen’s patronage of ground-breaking British designers helped put London on the international fashion map after the Second World War.
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Zandra Rhodes: Unseen
July 12 - August 31, 2013
With spectacular textiles, ravishing dresses and original sketches, Zandra Rhodes Unseen presents a rare opportunity to explore the archive, studio and creative process of one of the world’s most distinctive designers. An inspiration to her contemporaries for over 50 years, this new exhibition combines lesser-known fashion collections with more familiar designs drawn from a prolific career.
Zandra Rhodes: Unseen celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Fashion and Textile Museum, which the designer created and opened to the public in 2003.
Further information
The Victoria & Albert Museum
Cromwell Road, London, England, SW7 2RL
http://www.vam.ac.uk/
Hollywood Costume
October 20, 2012 - January 27, 2013
The V&A's autumn exhibition, 'Hollywood Costume', explores the central role costume design plays in cinema storytelling. Bringing together over 100 of the most iconic movie costumes from across a century of film-making, it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the clothes worn by unforgettable and beloved characters such as Dorothy Gale, Indiana Jones, Scarlett O'Hara, Jack Sparrow, Holly Golightly and Darth Vader.
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Kitty and the Bulldog: Lolita fashion and the influence of Britain
Through February 24, 2013
Kitty and the Bulldog explores the way in which British fashion – notably Victoriana, Punk and Gothic – has influenced the development of Japan’s ‘Lolita’ style, a cult fashion movement whose defining feature has been its preoccupation with cuteness, or ‘kawaii’. The display features nine outfits recently bought in Tokyo for the V&A's permanent collections.
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Transformation and Revelation: Gormley to Gaga, UK design for performance 2007-2011
March 17, 2012 - September 30, 2013
Exploring the theme of transformation, this display will reveal contemporary designs for performance by over 30 British Theatre Designers. It will provide an intriguing insight into the designers’ creative process and will include costumes, set models, photographs, drawings, sound productions and lighting designs. Designs include Sutra by Anthony Gormley, War Horse by Rae Smith and Lady Gaga’s Monster Ball Tour by Es Devlin.
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David Bowie Is
March 23 - July 28, 2013
The V&A has been given unprecedented access to the David Bowie Archive to curate the first international retrospective of the extraordinary career of David Bowie - one of the most pioneering and influential performers of modern times. David Bowie is will explore the creative processes of Bowie as a musical innovator and cultural icon, tracing his shifting style and sustained reinvention across five decades.
The V&A’s Theatre and Performance curators, Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh have selected more than 300 objects that will be brought together for the very first time. They include handwritten lyrics, original costumes, fashion, photography, film, music videos, set designs, Bowie’s own instruments and album artwork.
The exhibition will explore the broad range of Bowie’s collaborations with artists and designers in the fields of fashion, sound, graphics, theatre, art and film. On display will be more than 300 objects including Ziggy Stardust bodysuits (1972) designed by Freddie Burretti, photography by Brian Duffy; album sleeve artwork by Guy Peellaert and Edward Bell; visual excerpts from films and live performances including The Man Who Fell to Earth, music videos such as Boys Keep Swinging and set designs created for the Diamond Dogs tour (1974). Alongside these will be more personal items such as never-before-seen storyboards, handwritten set lists and lyrics as well as some of Bowie’s own sketches, musical scores and diary entries, revealing the evolution of his creative ideas.
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