The Europeana Fashion International Association is organising this year its annual symposium, titled "Fashion Digital Memories" and focused on Fashion Heritage and New Technologies. The symposium is organized in collaboration with Università Iuav di Venezia and The New School - Parsons Paris. It will be held in the fantastic setting of Palazzo Badoer, where the School of Doctorate Studies at Iuav University of Venice is located.

From April 21 to June 18, 2017, the exhibition “Gianfranco Ferré. Moda, un racconto nei disegni” (Gianfranco Ferré. Fashion, Drawings Tell the Story) will take place at the extraordinary Santa Maria della Pietà Cultural Center in Piazza Giovanni XXII in the city of Cremona.

The exhibition ‘Brides at the Leventis Museum: tradition and fashion in Greece and Cyprus’ is on show at the Leventis Municipal Museum in Nicosia, Cyprus, from the 30th November 2016 to the 23rd April 2017.

French fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy joined the Gemeemntemuseum den Haag to curate this retrospective that encompasses the long career of the designer, featuring his creations from the opnening of his house in 1952 to his retirement in 1995.

‘Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion’ discloses how The Costume Institute has honed its collecting strategy to amass masterworks of the highest aesthetic and technical quality, including iconic works by designers who have changed fashion history and advanced fashion as an art form.

Costume Colloquium will be back for its 5th edition in November 17 - 20 2016 at Auditorium al Duomo in Florence. The international, interdisciplinary and intercultural structure of Costume Colloquium promotes a lively exchange of knowledge on a full range of ideas and interests. The conference topics and themes are appealing to professionals and academics as well as

The first to explore the challenging and compelling territory of taste in fashion, the exhibition ‘The Vulgar. Fashion Redifined’ displays more than 120 fashion objects, drawing the visual vocabulary of vulgarity from the renaissance to today.

LACMA presents the Lois Boardman collection of contemporary jewelry, composed of more than 300 pieces that the collector has gifted to the museum.

What makes a brand? What goes into constructing a fashion house’s identity? ‘Label It. Trademarks in Fashion’ aims to answer these questions through a selection of the creations of the most representative designers of contemporary fashion.

The pure fashion genius of Gianfranco Ferré and the photographic artistry of Michel Comte identify, respectively, two exhibitions part of the bicentennial celebrations marking the arrival in Parma of Marie Louise of the House of Hapsburg-Lorraine, Austrian archduchess who ruled as Empress of the French and as the Duchess of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla.

MoMu – Fashion Museum Antwerp and the University of Antwerp discuss in the conference ‘Study Collections: a Challenging Context for Museums and Universities’ the results, questions, challenges that have both faced pursuing the project of creating a free usable study collection.

The one who inspired the character of Oriane, Duchess of Guemantes, in Marcel Proust’s novel ‘In Search of Lost Time’, the Countess Greffulhe is the protagonist of this exhibition that brings together over 40 fashion objects belonged to her.

The exhibition ‘1920s JAZZ AGE Fashion & Photographs’ brings together over 150 objects including sportswear, printed day dresses, fringed flapper dresses, beaded evening wear, velvet capes, and silk pyjamas to recount age of modernity and frivolity.

The exhibition ‘Rik Wouters & The Private Utopia’ commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of painter Rik Wouters. Realized by MoMu in partnership with the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, the exhibition explores the work of the Post-Impressionist painter, with a focus on his representations of simple domestic scenes, whose sense of sanctity and intimacy offer a special confluence with contemporary design and fashion.

‘La Donna che Legge’ is the seventh issue of the ‘Culture Chanel’ exhibitions curated by Jean Louis Froment that disclose through its key elements the vocabulary of Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel and her House.

The first in the US to reconstruct the 150 years history of the sneakers, ‘Out of the Box: the Rise of the Sneaker Culture’ illustrates the evolution of the sneakers from the 19th century to today.

Will future heritage be financed and co-curated by the crowd?

“KARL LAGERFELD – Visions of Fashion” is a special anthological exhibition celebrating Karl Lagerfeld’s diverse and elegant approach to photography: photos from fashion shoots published in the world’s most important fashion magazines – among them different editions of Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Numéro and V Magazine – and others inspired by classical mythology such as the

El Museo del Barrio will present on the 14th of June "Antonio Lopez: Future Funk Fashion", an exhibition on the work of the fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez!

For a week, starting on the 4th to the 13th June, Venice hosts the "Biennale del Merletto", an international event, which will feature installations, talks and workshops on the art of merletto.

NJAL presents its series of educational events with a symposium held at the luxury publishing house, Maison Assouline in London's Piccadily on the 31st of May. The event aims to breach the digital frontier, uniting NJAL's global network of pioneering fashion talent with the industry impresarios, radical thinkers and system shakers shaping the future of fashion.

On the 28th May 2016, the Hellenic Costume Society in collaboration with the Netherlands Institute at Athens is organizig a one-day symposium entitled “Exhibiting Dress: Engaging with the Past and the Present”. The event is part of the International Museum Day 2016 celebrations in Athens.

Europeana Fashion is glad to announce the first in a series of Fashion Edit-a-thons organized in partnership with Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna at Rimini Campus. Issued by the Department for Life Quality Studies (QuVi) of Bologna’s University in collaboration with Europeana Fashion and

"Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair" opens on the 20th May and will be on show at Bellevue Arts Museum through the 14th August 2016.

On show at the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute from the 5th May tothe 14th August 2016, the exhibition “Manus x Machina. Fashion in an Age of Technology” will focus on the dichotomy between handmade haute couture and machine-made fashion.

The exhibition "Women in Dior. Sublime Elegance of a Portrait", on show at Christian Dior Museum, invites visitors to discover this great designer’s work and inspiration through the women who have chosen and worn the creations of his fashion house.

For this exhibition, the fashion historian and illustrator Tonie Lewenhaupt has selected some of the most magnificent and interesting pieces from the hundreds of clothes and fashion objects that she had donated over the last 20 years to the Röhsska Museum and that constitute the core of the museum’s fashion collection.

On show from the 10th April to the 21st August 2016, the exhibition "Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear, 1715–2015" explores the history of men’s fashionable dress from the eighteenth century to the present and re-examines the all-too-frequent equation of “fashion” with “femininity.”

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris celebrates the 30th anniversary of its fashion collection displaying three hundred years of fashion in its new exhibition, on show through the 14th August 2016.

To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of its fashion collection, The Musée des Arts Décoratifs will display the exhibition "Fashion Forward, 3 Centuries of Fashion (1715-2016)" from April 7 to August 14, 2016.

Fashion Studies is a field of knowledge with deep historical roots within History of Art. However, as apparently disparate approaches flank the traditional historiographies of dress, its placement in scholarly settings is, today more than ever, up for discussion. Still innovating, even if Fashion Studies has been an academic topic for more than 30 years now, academics often feel the need to deconstruct disciplinary boundaries within this wide research area. While understanding fashion as a meaningful system within which the production of the cultural and aesthetic representations of the body is made possible, research in Fashion Studies all over the world is undertaken from different perspectives in diverse university departments, including History of Art, Media Studies, Design, Literature, and Cultural Studies.

Through the 11th of September 2016, Fashion Museum Hasselt displays "Haute-à-Porter", examining the changing relationship and cross-fertilization between haute couture and ready to wear.

On view at The Jewish Museum, in New York City, from March 18th to August 7th 2016, the exhibition "Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History" is the first museum exhibition to focus on the influential American fashion designer, artist, and entrepreneur.

The exhibition "Game Changers – Reinventing the 20th century silhouette", looks at the groundbreaking work of fashion designer Cristóbal Balenciaga whose innovations in the middle of the 20th century created a radically new silhouettte, in which the body got freedom of movement and architectural volumes created a space around the body.

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco presents a retrospective of Oscar de la Renta’s work to celebrate the life and career of one of fashion’s most influential designers. It will include more than 100 ensembles produced over five decades, and is organized in collaboration with the house of de la Renta and the designer’s family.

On show through the 10th July 2016, the exhibition "#techstyle" focuses on the new technologies and innovations that are explored by contemporary designers.

Opening 20th February 2016, the exhibition "HAIR! Human Hair in Fashion and Art" focus on a theme that has never been the subject of comprehensive research, that of human hair in fashion and art.

For the first time, Rijksmuseum displays its fashion collection in an exhibition which brings together the history of Dutch fashion.

In February 2016, Victoria and Albert Museum will host a training course on curating fashion and dress.

On show at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, through the 30th April 2016, the exhibition "CODED_COUTURE" proposes a new interpretation of couture where coding is the ultimate design tool for creating customized garments and accessories.

To mark the centenary year of British Vogue in 2016, National Portrait Gallery hosts a major exhibition, "Vogue 100: A Century of Style".

The exhibition "Bellissima: Italy and High Fashion 1945 to 1968", which will be on show at NSU Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from the 7th of February to the 7th March 2016, traces the development of Italian high fashion and examines the crucial role Italy played in its international success.

"Fairy Tale Fashion", on show at The Museum at FIT through the 16th April 2016, is a highly imaginative exhibition which displays high fashion in the traditional settings of the most famous fairy tales.

The exhibition "Une maison, des collections", which will be on display through the 6th of March at the Christian Dior Museum in Granville offers a fresh look at the sources of Christian Dior’s inspiration and his creations.

"Shoes: Culture and Innovation" will explore shoes as cultural objects which reflect status, gender and politics.

Held at the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute until February 21st 2016, the exhibition "Jacqueline de Ribes: The Art of Style" focuses on the internationally renowned style icon Countess Jacqueline de Ribes, whose originality and elegance established her as one of the most celebrated fashion personas of the twentieth century.

Opening 7th November 2015, the exhibition "La Mode retrouvée" held at Palais Galliera will focus on the wardrobe of Élizabeth, Countess Greffulhe, whose beauty and elegance was one of the main inspirations for Marcel Proust and the fashion designers of her time.

The exhibition "Knitting!", on display at the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden until the 28th August 2016, presents a journey through the art of knitting.

Liberty has been at the cutting edge of design and the decorative arts since 1875. The exhibition "Liberty in Fashion", held at Fashion and Textile Museum in London from the 9th October 2015 to the 28th February 2016, explores Liberty’s impact on British fashion, from Orientalism and Aesthetic dress in the 19th century, through Art Nouveau and Art Deco in the early 20th century, and the revival of these styles since the 1950s. Liberty Art Fabrics and the textile design studio take centre stage as the internationally recognised leader in floral, paisley and patterned prints and dress fabrics.

Until 7th February, Liljevalchs hosts the exhibition "Utopian Bodies: Fashion Looks Forward". The exhibition, which showcases more than 200 objects, images and videos, invites visitors to embark on a captivating journey between different worlds.

The beautiful creations of Italian High Fashion are now on display at Villa Reale in Monza until the 10th January 2016!

Until 7th February 2016, Gemeente Museum Den Haag hosts the exhibition "Ode to Dutch Fashion", showcasing the work of designers that have placed the Netherlands firmly on the map as a country of idiosyncratic fashion talent.

Korean design, crafts, fashion and graphic design are now on display in a comprehensive exhibition in Paris!

The exhibition "Jazz Age. The Roaring 20s", that will be held at ModeMuseum Hasselt from the 12th of September 2015 to the 13th of March 2016, explores the fashion of the 20s in all its aspects. The original style of that age broke with established orders and values and flirted with Modernism. The new moral and social etiquette required entirely different fashions and under the impulse of avant-garde art movements, fashion was subjected to new enquiry.

Held at Museum of Applied Art, in Belagrade, until the 30th October 2015 the exhibition "Aleksandar Joksimović. From the collection of the Museum of Applied Art" displays the collection that Aleksandar Joksimović gave to the Museum of Applied Art in 2005

The exhibition shines a light on those fashion and shoe designers who left their footprint on the world of shoes by means of the exquisite and innovative designs they created. Their craft and art came together in architectural shapes, leaving a footprint on the fashion images of their time. The exhibition will include insights into the evolution and design of the shoes on display from the individual designers and creators, many of whom have influenced footwear for decades.

Held at Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, in Madrid, this exhibition brings together sixty fashion photographs inspired by painting. The photographs, from the Vogue Archive, are the work of great

The exhibition “The Belgians. An Unexpected Fashion Story”, curated by Didier Vervaeren and held at BOZAR from the 5th of June to the 13th of September 2015 gives a unique historic overview of the DNA of Belgian fashion, starting with the legendary Antwerp Six (including Dries van Noten, Walter Van Beirendonck and Ann Demeulemeester) and working up to the individualistic creations of Martin Margiela, A.F. Vandevorst and Raf Simons.

The globalization of fashion has given rise to new fashion cities that now annually host hundreds of fashion weeks around the world. The exhibition "Global Fashion Capitals", held at The Museum at FIT Fashion & Textile History Gallery from the 2nd June to 14th November 2015 explores, through over 70 objects, the history of the established fashion capitals and the emergence of 16 new fashion cities.

From the English seaside to the Côte d’Azur and California, Riviera Style celebrates fashion at its most fun. With swimsuits and sarongs, brightly patterned beach cover-ups, boat neck Bretons and beach pyjamas, palazzo pants and playsuits, bikinis and burkinis, the exhibition features over 100 years of clothes for leisure. Riviera Style brings together a diverse range of

With Kaleidoscope – Couture by Christian Lacroix, a new heading programming, begins at MUDE – Museu do Design e da Moda, Coleção Francisco Capelo. It is our aim to provide to all visitors a better understanding of the particular, closed and exquisite universe of Couture, featuring the artists represented in the MUDE collection.

Celebrating the 150 years since Florence was named capital of the Kingdom of Italy and Palazzo Spini Feroni was chosen to be the city hall in 1865, the exhibition will include prestigious works of art and documents from museums and private collections around the world and will tell the intricate stories behind the palace and its residents.

The Bata Shoe Museum new exhibition, "Standing Tall: The Curious History of Men in Heels" opened to the public on May 8, 2015. As the official exhibition to launch the Museum’s 20th anniversary year, "Standing Tall" will challenge preconceived notions about who wears heels and why. From privileged rulers to hyper-sexualized rock stars this provocative exhibition will explore the history of men in heels from the early 1600s to today, delving into the use and meanings of heeled footwear in men’s dress over the last four hundred years.

This exhibition explores the impact of Chinese aesthetics on Western fashion and how China has fueled the fashionable imagination for centuries. In this collaboration between The Costume Institute and the Department of Asian Art, high fashion is juxtaposed with Chinese costumes, paintings, porcelains, and other art, including films, to reveal enchanting reflections of Chinese imagery.

"MISSONI, L'ARTE, IL COLORE", on until November 15th, displays the creations of Missoni, the great Italian fashion House.

A big name in French haute couture, Cristóbal Balenciaga (Getaria, 1895-1972, Javea, Spain) was truly passionate about lace throughout his life. This exhibition with a novel theme comprises Parisian pieces and also a number of outfits created in his three Spanish houses in San Sebastiàn, Madrid and Barcelona, and never before presented in France.

"Karl Lagerfeld. Modemethode" at the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany is the first comprehensive exhibition to explore the fashion cosmos of this exceptional designer and, with it, to present an important chapter of the fashion history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The exhibition “Fast Fashion”, that will be held at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg until the 25th of October 2015, casts a critical glimpse behind the scenes of glamorous fashion. Bounded by the magic triangle of consumerism, economic interests and ecological issues, and throws light on these themes from the following aspects.

14 March – 19 July 2015. Celebrating the extraordinary creative talent of one of the most innovative designers of recent times, "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" will be the first and largest retrospective of McQueen's work to be presented in Europe.

The Palais Galliera, in close collaboration with Alber Elbaz, artistic director of Lanvin, is honouring the oldest French fashion house still in business. This first Paris exhibition devoted to Jeanne Lanvin (1867-1946) features over a hundred models from the amazing collections of the Palais Galliera and the Lanvin Heritage.

In collaboration with MoMu – Fashion Museum Province of Antwerp, Europeana Fashion hosts its third annual conference in Antwerp on 24, 25, 26 February 2015.

"Maker & Muse: Women and Early Twentieth Century Art Jewelry" features more than 250 exemplary works of art jewelry between the Victorian Era and the First World War, including cloak clasps, hair ornaments, pins, brooches, rings, bracelets, pendants, necklaces, and several tiaras.

The exhibition "Déboutonnez la mode!", running from 12/02/2015 to 19/07/2015 at Les Arts Décoratifs, is the opportunity to unveil a unique collection, of over 3,000 buttons, dated from the 18th to the 20th century.

Dior and Balenciaga, Vionnet and Yves Saint Laurent - the history of modern fashion is signposted by a handful of major fashion designers whose work shaped the look of a generation. This new display at the Fashion Museum showcases beautiful evening dresses by a number of these great names of fashion history from the early 20th century to the present day.

Fashion Museum Hasselt takes you behind the scenes of Paul Smith’s World where intuitive creativity roosts. You are introduced to the astute designer behind this British label that started small, but has become one of the leading fashion brands in the world.

After a hiatus in 2014, the seminaries of the program “Histoire de la Mode et du Vêtement” will restart in January 2015 with “La Mode Masculine 1820-1970 (I) : Sources D’Étude”. The theme, more restricted compared to the precedent, will consider men’s fashion in a period of time of 150 years, from 1820 to 1970, considering the changes and evolutions that this period faced.

From Matrix to Sleeping Beauty gives the opportunity to known the work of António Lagarto as a costume designer, presenting a selection of almost 300 pieces (clothing, hair props, jewellery and shoes) that have been worn by some of the most important actors, actresses and dancers to embody several characters of the national and international dramaturgical universe. To adequately visualize the aesthetic universe of António Lagarto and the way he works space, matter, body and light, he also signs the curatorship and exhibition design.

The FASHION MIX exhibition is a tribute to French expertise which Russian, Armenian, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Belgian designers – to name but a few in the field of fashion – help spread worldwide. From Charles Frederick Worth to Azzedine Alaïa, Fortuny to Issey Miyake and Yohji Yamamoto, and from Elsa Schiaparelli to Martin Margiela, not forgetting Cristobal Balenciaga, Robert Piguet, Paco Rabane and Raf Simons – all of these foreign designers and creative directors have brought about a revolution in French fashion and enriched its history.

"Bellissima: Italy and High Fashion 1945-1968" is not a history of high fashion, but, rather, the attempt to reassemble, through the lens of today, the complex and ever-changing image of Italian fashion, in a choral account made up of many exemplary stories that are the very fabric that will give shape and consistency to the great success of the “made in Italy” label.

The exhibition BORO: THE FABRIC OF LIFE presents 54 pieces (kimonos, purses, tatamis)produced using the Boro method, which means rag and consists of stitching and weaving different fabrics, being the textile pieces subsequently dyed with indigo.

This unique exhibition, running from the 26th Semptember to the 11th January 2015, is organized with the help of GQ and the Museum of Costume. It refelects on masculine identity in fashion in the last twenty years, being the first retrospective of its kind to be held in Europe.

The exhibition MOMU NOW Now showcases a selection of newly added masterpieces of contemporary silhouettes of the MoMu collection

"Dance & Fashion" will feature nearly 100 dance costumes and dance-inspired fashions, ranging from the 19th century to the present, many of which have never been exhibited.

The 6th edition of Fashionclash festival will take place 12 - 15th of June 2014 in Maastricht, and offers a platform for new and emerging talent in fashion to network and to promote their work.

Fashion illustrator Piet Paris is guest curator for Centraal Museum. More than 150 items are selected by Piet Paris from the Centraal Museum collection and presented in a surprising manner: as scenes in a musical

This exhibition traces developments in intimate apparel from the 18th century to the present.

This exhibition aims to display the enormous potential of Spain's outstanding designers of the past half century.

The Costume Institute’s new Anna Wintour Costume Center will open on May 8 with the inaugural exhibition Charles James: Beyond Fashion, on view from May 8 through August 10, 2014, which will examine the career of legendary 20th-century Anglo-American couturier Charles James (1906–1978).

This exhibition examines the eternal fashion of the wedding dress and uncovers the most romantic, glamorous and iconic dresses from the last 200 years.

The second International Europeana Fashion Conference, held on 9 April 2014 at the V&A, examines the fascinating intersection of fashion, heritage and the digital world.

This major exhibition is a glamorous, comprehensive look at Italian Fashion from the end of the Second World War to the present day.

The exhibition Birds of Parardise: Plumes & Feathers in Fashion at the MoMu in Antwerp highlights the usage of plumes and feathers in fashion and haute couture.

This exhibition gives an overview of Jewish dress from across the globe over the past two hundred years.

Bailey's Stardust at the National Portrait Gallery focusses on the life and work of David Bailey, and runs from 6 Feb. 2014 until 1 Jun. 2014.

The exhibition will bring thirty two of the most splendid examples of Greek women's costume to London for the first time. All but two of the costumes come from the superb collection of the Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation in Nafplio.

The exhibition pays homage to the work and talent of Gianfranco Ferré, dubbed the “architect of fashion”.

The Fashion Museum of Bath hosts "Georgians" to celebrate the origins of its location and 18th century Georgian fashion, combining both original work and that of contemporary designers.

With the exhibition David Sassoon, the Fashion Museum at Bath highlights the epitomical history and the important influence of the high-end fashion house Bellville Sassoon through a selection of exclusive drawings and evening dresses.

The “Brides” exhibition, a major event which will have opened in December in the new Benaki Museum in Pireos Street, Athens, will continue through January and February of 2014.

Trend-ology a current exhibition at the Museum at FIT illustrates the peculiar science of trends and connects them to the larger cultural, economical and socio-political whole in which they have emerged. On display from Dec. 3 2013 until Apr. 30 2014.

Jewelry has been part of the human attire forever and just like fashion changes over time, space and culture. This exhitibion features  mainly pieces from the collection of Museo del Traje , but also pieces from private collections in Madrid .

Somerset House celebrates the life and wardrobe of the late Isabella Blow and features British turn-of-the-century fashion from her private collection with the work of, among others, Alexander McQueen and Philip Treacy.

Self-educated Spanish couturier Manuel Piña played a key role in the revitalization of Spanish fashion. His clothes, which merged tradition, handicraft and avant-garde design, never failed to mesmerize women who were yearning for modernity.

The Dutch Textile Commission will organise their fall symposium on textile identification and determination.

From 12 November until 12 December, Europeana Fashion hosts the online Europeana Fashion Challenge on Wikipedia. During this month-long challenge, participants are invited to edit articles related to fashion on Wikipedia and have a chance to win some great prizes.

The exhibition “Ornaments of Serbian Medieval Frescoes – Memory Update" will feature 573 tables with copies of ornaments from clothes and textile on the medieval frescoes in Serbia and Macedonia.

ARRRGH! displays more than 70 designs of 40 established and emerging designers exploring character design in fashion.

Conceived as an installation, this exhibition offers an immersion into the creative universe of Felipe Oliveira Baptista.

On 16 October “Decoded Fashion” in Milan will gather young entrepreneurs, designers, retailers and media professionals to discuss new technologies in fashion industry.

Friday, October 4, LIM College in New York “Fashion Now&Then: Meaning, Media and Mode” conference hosts Europeana Fashion to discuss the past, present and future of fashion information.

On Monday 23 September 2013 Europeana Fashion is organizing an edit-a-thon in MoMu around the theme fashion. During this edit-a-thon, participants will work together on new and existing Wikipedia articles on fashion, preferably with images under the Europeana Fashion category from Wikipedia.

This Fall, MoMu will present the exhibition '50 Years Antwerp Fashion Department'. The exhibition will highlight various aspects of Antwerp fashion education during the first fifty years of its existence.

"Princely Traditions and Colonial Pursuits in India" at LACMA shows the interesting dynamic of South Asian art throughout the 19th century, and is on display until October 12, 2014.

The Victoria and Albert Museum will celebrate the 25th anniversary of Jenny Packham this summer, an evening of free catwalk shows, featuring highlights of the designer's collections to date - as part of its Fashion in Motion series.

Club to Catwalk will explore the creative explosion of London fashion in the 1980s.

This exhibition explores the ‘underworld’ of undergarments that fashion the body according to the changing dictates of fashion. Illustrating the diversity of modifications and their mechanics with museum pieces rarely shown to the public, this exhibition takes us ‘backstage’ into behind-the-scenes history of clothing and fashion.

This one-day symposium explores the increasingly wide scope of spaces where fashion is practiced and studied. It brings together a cross-disciplinary cohort of fashion researchers to explore ideas relating to fashion spaces.

"Coming Into Fashion" at the City Art Centre of Edinburgh displays a century of Condé Nast fashion imagery through the works of eighty leading photographers.

The exhibition "Iris Van Herpen" at The International City of Lace and Fashion of Calais introduces the public to the fashion designer until April 13th 2014.

A full range program of events from guided visits to conferences, exhibtions and workshops. In the General Assembly topics such as textile practices, marketing, sustainability and online sales will be discussed.

The footwear on display, from 1830 to 1918, traces the process of transformation undergone by the dress of the Serbian bourgeois class during the 19^th century, from traditional Oriental dress towards European fashions.

Centraal Museum Utrecht and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision are two out of 22 partners of the Europeana Fashion project who, together with Wikimedia Netherlands and ModeMuze, will host the second in a series of fashion edit-a-thons around Europe.

An occasion to explore and discuss all the possible synergies between Fashion Industry and the GLAM community going beyond the concept of Fashion Heritage.

With its exclusive London boutiques, the family-run business of Fior was, for decades, the number-one address for costume jewellery and luxury accessories of the highest order.

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. David Bowie is will feature more than 300 objects that include handwritten lyrics, original costumes, fashion, photography, film, music videos, set designs and Bowie's own instruments.

The exhibition tells both the story of the Abraham company and that of European couture, art and luxury throughout the 20th century.

The period 1880-1940 was a tumultous time that affected how women dressed and how they practiced sporst and recreation. This exhibition explores that change in over 70 garments used for ice skating, skiing, swimming, sunbathing and vacations.

This exhibition at Europeana Fashion partner Museo del Traje focuses on the most innovative creations of the second half of the twentieth century in the collection of the museum.

Starting on 10 February, the Kunsthal in Rotterdam will present the exhibition "The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier - From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk". Collaborating with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Maison Jean Paul Gaultier, the Kunsthal explores 35 years of the designer's work.

The streamlined aesthetics of the fashion of the 1930s are the subject of the exhibition Elegance in an Age of Crisis: Fashions of the 1930s at the Museum at FIT, with special attention for the turbulent economical and political status of the era.

The 2nd Nordic Research Workshop in Fashion Studies, hosted by the Centre for Fashion Studies will be held at Stockholm University on Friday, December 14, 2012.

Les Arts Décoratifs is hosting a prestigious exhibition previously shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and at the Deutsch Historisches Museum in Berlin. Fashioning Fashion: Two Centuries of European Fashion 1700–1915, reflecting the principal trends in fashion in Europe from the 18^th century to the early 20^th century.

Prato Textile Museum Foundation, in collaboration with A.N.G.E.L.O. Vintage Fashion, presents their project for next winter: an investigation on  fashion vintage explored through documents and clothes.

"Unexpected Pleasures" at the Design Museum in London is dedicated to contemporary jewellers, whose extraordinary designs have changed the world of jewellery design.

Somerset House presents "Valentino: Master of Couture", a new exhibition celebrating the life and work of Valentino showcasing over 130 exquisite haute couture gowns, worn by the likes of Grace Kelly, Sophia Loren and Jackie Kennedy Onassis.

To celebrate the 125th anniversary of Cordwainers at London College of Fashion, the Fashion Space Gallery presents "Leather: Second Skin", offering a unique insight into various interpretations of the material.

The Centraal Museum presents the first large-scale exhibition in the Netherlands on blue jeans. Across various themes, the exhibition shows new work by renowned artists, combined with national and international loan pieces - showcasing both craftsmanship and innovative technology.

The Fashion and Textile Museum in London presents "Hartnell to Amies: Couture by Royal Appointment", which showcases extraordinary couture pieces of the designers of H.M. The Queen herself.

Europeana Fashion partner Victoria and Albert Museum invites international Hollywood costume designers for a conference concerning the museum's autumn exhibition "Hollywood Costume". Learn about the exhibitions conception, unique design as well as the impact UK art schools have had on creating oscar nominated designers for Hollywood.

Costume Colloquium III: Past Dress – Future Fashion is the third in a series of bi-annual conferences dedicated to the discussion of fashion, fabric, styles, techniques, conservation and the many topics associated with dress history and contemporary costume creation, use and design. The 2012 edition will focus on the broader analysis of historical styles and their influences on current and future fashion trends.

The Museum of Fine Arts presents "Mario Testino: In Your Face", giving an insight into the photographer's impressive thirty-year career.

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 gives the visitors an opportunity to see the clothes worn by unforgettable and beloved Hollywood characters.

Created in 2006 by lille3000, Futurotextiles is an exhibition which associates science, technology and art to textile.   .

"From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk" showcases the avant-garde designer’s take on Spanish culture with over 120 haute couture and ready-to-wear looks displayed in an extraordinary way, alongside images from top photographers and modern artists.

The "Fabulous Fifties -Fabulous Fashion" exhibition reflects on the 50's fashion, an era full of optimism and change in a visual narrative. It showcases the variety in fashion of this highly inspiring era, covering everything from magnificent haute couture, wedding dresses, hats and suits to rebellious youth clothing.

The Calais International City of Lace and Fashion presents "History of threads", examining the identity of lace outside its usual field of application in the clothing and furnishing industries.

Chloé. Attitudes is the very first exhibition dedicated to Chloé, a celebration of the Maison’s 60-year contribution to fashion culture. This spectacular and groundbreaking exhibition offers a playful interpretation of the Chloé spirit that spans seven decades.

The OCT Art & Design Gallery presents "Basic Instincs", featuring clothing by five designers, whose work defines contemporary Dutch fashion, as well as objects, photographs and scale models created by product designers, photographers and architects.

In "Masterpieces from the Collection" Centraal Museum presents the very best of its collection in a permanent exhibition. This includes fashion objects ranging from unique 17th century pieces to contemporary couture by Iris van Herpen.

Greek tradition meets contemporary fashion in the thematic exhibition entitled "Beyond Dress Codes: Contemporary Fashion Designers in dialogue with Traditional Greek Costume" organized at the galleries of the Hellenic American Union. The exhibition proves that besides its aesthetic and decorative function dress constitutes a code of communication and discovery, conveying a wealth of meaning with respect to its bearer, revealing not only one's identity but also their true history, country, traditions, gender, age, personality and status.

Paris Fashion Week is one of the most prominent fashion weeks around the whole world, along with London, New York, and Milan.

All the daring of the creations of this legendary jewellery house will be highlighted in the Nave at Les Arts Décoratifs, with 400 pieces that have made the fame of Van Cleef & Arpels since 1906.

Milano Moda Donna, or Fashion Week Milan, is the most prestigious event organized by Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, with its two yearly appointments and a network of thousands of field operators that work to make this great event perfect

Fashioning the City: Exploring Fashion Cultures, Structures, and Systems is an international inter-disciplinary conference, hosted at the Royal College of Art (RCA), London, from 19th-21st September 2012.

London Fashion Week is now established as one of London's premier events attracting a target audience of key fashion leaders, retailers and press who attend this bi-annual showcase of British designer fashion.

The exhibition features 1,000 pieces of jewellery which are divided into different sections: "Fashion", "In Joy and Sorrow", "Jewellery and Hair", "Magic and Symbolism", "Hold Tight" and "Highlights". The exhibition also features a timeline on the history of style.

The "Ivy Style" exhibition celebrates one of the most enduring clothing styles of the 20th century. The 'Ivy League Look' which began during the early years of the century on the quads and in the libraries of elite, all-male, American universities, such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton.

From September 12th, 2012 till February 10th, 2013 MoMu presents MADAME GRÈS. Sculptural Fashion, an overview of the work of the Parisian couturier, Madame Grès (1903– 1993).

Fashion Space Gallery London presents "Framed!", exploring the cultural significance of contemporary eyewear and celebrating its rise as the ultimate luxury accessory. The viewers are enabled to see the transformation of glasses into a personal style statement through imagery and iconic archival objects.

"Hats", primarily organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2009, presents the masterpieces of one of the fashion world’s most prolific milliners, Stephen Jones. The exhibition enabled the viewer to explore the delightful realm of hats and discover the boundless creativity of hat design.

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week is New York City's single largest media event, taking place twice a year (February & September) at Lincoln Center.

Its main focus is to attract the international fashion community such as the press and fashion buyers to get a closer look at the Swedish fashion scene. The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Stockholm supports around thirty local designers twice a year.

Every February and August, Copenhagen is host to Northern Europe's largest fashion event, Copenhagen Fashion Week. On the catwalks are a growing number of new and known Danish talents with a preview of their upcoming collections.

The Alternative Fashion before Glossies, 1985-1995 show displays the history of alternative fashion, a trend that emerged at the junction of rock and squat club culture, during the period that started with early perestroika and ended those the arrival of glossy fashion periodicals in mid 1990s.

In an Israeli first, Design Museum Holon is proud to announce an exhibition by visionary designer Yohji Yamamoto.

  For the 500th years anniversary of Amerigo Vespucci’s death, the Special Department for the Historical, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological Property and the Florentine museum group celebrates theAmerica’s discovery and the man who gave the name to that country. In honor of the big navigator, born inFlorencein 1454, the Florentine Gallery of Costume, in collaboration withTulsa’sGilcrease Museum,Oklahoma, hosts an exhibition about Native Americans from the North, with a special care to the places of European colonization. The iconographic testimony, collected by the american photographer Edward Curtis at he beginning of the XIX century, documents the civilization of Native Americans when they were in risk of extinction. The collection includes art and artifacts, daily use objects and ritual items: the well known feather warbonnet, different kind of jewels, like necklaces made of tasks and claws, wonderful clothes in leather decorated with sparkling coloured beads and others male and female clothes. On the wholes paintings, sculptures and pictures of the XVIII and XIX century increase the iconographic choice, made by artists who were in close quarters with Natives. The exhibition suppose to show finally a real reportage about Native Americans civilization, trying to confute the fanciful reading of american movies.

Haute Couture. Season FW 2012-2013 Definitive schedule online at http://www.modeaparis.com/en

The “Fashion Timeline” showcases the Kent State University Museum’s world-class collection of historic fashions. Encompassing two centuries of fashion history, this exhibition is designed to show the evolution of styles and silhouettes while contextualizing the pieces with relevant political, technological and cultural developments.

Men's fashion. Season SS 2013 Definitive schedule online at http://www.modeaparis.com/en

Along with Milano Moda Donna, Milano Moda Uomo is the International event with all the innovations of prêt-à-porter for men presented by the most important maisons of Italian fashion; during the event more than 100 fashion shows and presentations take place; Italian and foreign journalist attending are more than 1000 and buyers are almost 10.000.

With two annual appointments: January (Autumn/Winter Collection) and June (Spring/Summer Collection), the fully booked calendar of the event is the proof of the great interest shown by market operators toward men’s Fashion.

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"Dressing the 20th Century" at Modemuseum Hasselt features exceptional masterpieces from key designers who have defined the 20th century fashion landscape. The exhibition focuses on a number of Limburg designers within the era’s context, creating the possibility to explore their legacies from a regional perspective.

Europeana Fashion partner, Museo Salvatore Ferragamo pays homage to Marylin Monroe, dedicating an exhibition to the star to commemorate the 50th anniversary of her death. The exhibition not only revolves around the icon's exceptional beauty and charisma, but also puts her life and personality in a fresh perspective.

PITTI UOMO 82 The world’s most important platform for men’s clothing and accessory collections and for launching new projects in men’s fashion.   PITTI W 10 The Pitti Immagine fair-event devoted to special projects in women’s fashions concomitantly with Pitti Uomo. http://www.pittimmagine.com

The Centre national du costume de scène et de la scénographie continues its collaboration with Christian Lacroix, following him into the heart of the Opéra national de Paris where he created the costumes for the ballet La Source, in a choreography by Jean-Guillaume Bart, Danseur Etoile.

This year’s Europeana Plenary will reflect, with invited speakers, on a major Europeana theme of “Connecting Society through Culture” and showcase – in a very practical way – the power of partnerships, open data and cutting edge technology. In this context the Europeana Business Plan 2013 will be discussed and the Europeana Network of the European Cultural Commons concept be taken further. The talks and workshops will range from the strategic to the technical.  They should be of interest to a wide range of participants including the professional in our cultural heritage institutions, the open data community, technology experts and software developers. Europeana Fashion will have a slot at the Open Mike session on the 14th of June to present the project. Find the full programme here: http://pro.europeana.eu/web/leuven-2012/home

The FashionCamp is an annual event organized as a two-day barcamp which brings together the mainstream of fashion, fashion bloggers, new designers, and those who work with technology to share new ideas for the future of fashion through workshops, presentations and collaborations. FashionCamp promotes an open and shared vision of fashion, highly democratic and high-tech. Europeana Fashion will present its activities and objectivies during one of the unconferences session. For more information visit: http://www.fashioncamp.it

The First meeting of the Theasurus Workgroup took pace in Momu's Library in Antwerp the 4th of June; the main issues discussed where related to the mission statement of the Thesaurus, the tools needed and the existing sources to be compared and integrated (AAT, other specialised thesauri on textiles, fashion, and accessories).

Mint Museum's "And the Bead Goes On" exhibition displays inventive beadwork embroidery on twentieth and twenty-first century women’s fashions. Despite their modern look and omnipresence today, beads have been around since the ancient times. The museum presents evening gowns, cocktail dresses, and ensembles from the museum’s fashion collection, complemented with exciting new works on loan from contemporary designers, adorned by beads.

The exhibition explores the couturier's life and work, from his early years to his final creations, experienced through the rigorous selection of 90 pieces.

Europeana Fashion has been invited to present its technological activities during this international workshop on Technological Developments by Europeana Content Projects, organised by the Best Practice Network CARARE. Find the full programme here: http://bit.ly/LxZi3r

The Museum at FIT has organized two consecutive exhibitions in The Fashion and Textile History Gallery that celebrate the best of the permanent collection: Fashion, A-Z: Highlights from the Collection of the Museum at FIT, Part One (which ran through May 8, 2012) and Fashion, A-Z: Highlights from the Collection of the Museum at FIT, Part Two (May 23 through November 10, 2012).

The V&A celebrates the opening of the newly renovated Fashion Galleries with an exhibition of beautiful ballgowns, red carpet evening dresses and catwalk showstoppers.

The Christian Dior Museum will pay homage to the silver screen in 2012. For one summer only, the salons of Ville "Les Rhumbs" will exhibit the Dior fashions worn by movie stars on the screen and the streets.

The International City of Lace and Fashion in Calais is inviting the Quebec-based textile artist Carole Simard-Laflamme to decorate the temporary exhibition room with personal works of art calling on the five senses.

The Met's Spring 2012 Costume Institute exhibition, "Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations", explores the striking affinities between Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, two Italian designers from different eras.

A  retrospective of the designer’s 40 years of creativity, Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective features a stunning selection of 200 haute couture garments along with numerous photographs, drawings, and films that illustrate the development of Saint Laurent's style and the historical foundations of his work. Organized thematically, the presentation melds design and art to explore the full arc of Saint Laurent’s career, from his first days at Dior in 1958 through the splendor of his evening dresses from 2002. The DAM will be the only United States venue for the exhibition

Until 23 September 2012, the Groninger Museum presents the first large-scale solo exhibition of the work of Iris van Herpen (Wamel, 1984), one of the most striking designers of this moment.

The 15^th and 16^th of March 2012 in Florence, 23 partners from 12 European countries, representing the leading European institutions and collections in the fashion domain, came together for the kick-off meeting of the Europeana Fashion project.          

This is the first major exhibition in Italy to be dedicated to the extraordinary and complex Diana Vreeland (Paris, 1903 - New York, 1989). It will explore the many sides of her work and seek to offer a fresh approach with which to interpret the elements of her style and way of thinking. The title stresses the need today to decontextualise the many facets that go to make up her kaleidoscopic career and to reconnect them in a new reading of the multiple meanings underlying her now legendary professional and human experience. The exhibition will not limit itself to displaying some garments, although it will indeed be possible to admire many and extraordinary items; it will instead “short-circuit” time, the objects on show and their “aura”, showing how fashion is both a complex phenomenon and the perfect observatory for interpreting the tastes and trends of contemporary society. The aim being to restore a sense of the “magnificent gait” with which Diana Vreeland processed through fashion of the 20th century, initially during her years at “Harper’s Bazaar” and “Vogue”, and then in her role as Special Consultant for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

This exhibition tells the stories of two men, Louis Vuitton and Marc Jacobs (artistic director of LV), and will highlight their contributions to the fashion world. How did they succeed in taking the pulse of their respective periods to innovate and take an entire industry forward? How did these two personalities, each with their own language, appropriate cultural phenomena and codes to write the history of contemporary fashion?

This exhibition is centred on the musical and literary universe of Fado, viewing it from the perspective of fashion and the latter’s important contribution in creating the image of the new Fado singers

Nordiska Museet's permanent exhibition explores the power of fashion through three centuries of clothing in the Nordiska Museet collection. 

Design in its multiple facets, including fashion design, coexist in the same time frame and are presented in the permanent exhibition at Museu do Design e da Moda.

Museo Rossimoda della Calzatura exhibits the most representative models of Rossimoda's production for luxury labels and traces the history of luxury shoe design for women over the second half of the 20th century.