Fashion & Textiles

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Exhibitions

Exhibition Past

Fashion – Reality and Record

Exhibition Past

Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto

Exhibition Past

QUEER Stories from the NGV Collection

Exhibition Past

Alexander McQueen Mind, Mythos, Muse

Exhibition Past

Exhibition Past

Westwood | Kawakubo

Exhibition Future

Exhibition Past

Lady of Fashion 1800–1935 The Schofield Costume Collection

Exhibition Past

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Viktor&Rolf Fashion Artists

Exhibition Past

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The House of Dior Seventy Years of Haute Couture

Exhibition Past

Dior in the NGV Collection

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Couture to Chaos Fashion from the 1960s to Now

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Westwood | Kawakubo

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Extraordinary Women Works from the NGV Collection

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Let’s Party! Fashion for Kids Designed by Danielle Brustman

Exhibition Past

The Art of Knitting

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Athol Shmith Fashion photography from the 1940s to the 1970s

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The Hats of a Lifetime Thomas Harrison of Melbourne

Exhibition Past

Textiles of Indonesia

Exhibition Past

Ten Years of the Australian Ballet Costumes and Designs

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The Great Eighteenth Century Exhibition

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Australian Art in the 1870s

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Hatches, Matches and Dispatches Christening, Bridal and Mourning Fashions

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Fabulous Fashion 1907–67

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Let’s Party! Fashion for Kids Designed by Danielle Brustman

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Australiana Designing a Nation

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Lesage X Vionnet Couture Embroidery from the Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM Fashion Research Collection

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Alexander McQueen Mind, Mythos, Muse

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Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto

Exhibition Past

QUEER Stories from the NGV Collection

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Tammy Kanat: Circles of Life

Exhibition Past

Collecting Comme

Exhibition Past

The Krystyna Campbell-Pretty Fashion Gift

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Japonisme Japan and the Birth of Modern Art

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Atelier Viktor&Rolf for Kids

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Art of the Pacific NGV Collection Focus

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Adorned Textiles and Jewellery from Central Asia

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Italian Jewels Bulgari Style

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Siu i Moana Reaching Across the Ocean

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Henry Talbot 1960s Fashion Photographer

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Making the Australian Quilt 1800–1950

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200 Years of Australian Fashion

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Exquisite Threads English Embroidery 1600s–1900s

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Mambo 30 years of shelf-indulgence

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The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk

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Express Yourself: Romance was Born for Kids

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Fashion Detective

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Bushido Way of the Samurai

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Textiles of Michael O’Connell NGV Collection Focus

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Edward Steichen & Art Deco Fashion

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Melbourne Now 2013

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Captivating style 1950s Melbourne

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Dior and Yamamoto The New Look

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Living Traditions The Art of Belief

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Ballet & Fashion

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Linda Jackson Bush Couture

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Kaleidoscope: Art and colour

Exhibition Past

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Top Arts: VCE 2004

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Top Arts: VCE 2007

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Top Arts: VCE 2006

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Top Arts: VCE 2005

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Top Arts: VCE 2003

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Top Arts: VCE 2000

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Top Arts: VCE 2001

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Versace The retrospective 1982-97

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Twister The Celebrated, Ingenious and Exotic in Fashion

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Tutu Designing for Dance

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Akira Isogawa Printemps – Été

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Hunters & Collections Wardrobes of the International Fashion & Textiles Collection

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The Paris End Fashion, Photography & Glamour

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Swish Fashionable Melbourne of the 1950s

Exhibition Past

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House Mix Highlights of the International Fashion and Textiles Collection

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Pins & Needles Textile and Technique from the Australian Collection

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Abstract Mode Geometric Fashion and Textiles

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Thomas Harrison Milliner

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Ikat Asian resist dyed textiles

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Drape Classical Mode to Contemporary Dress

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Black in Fashion Mourning to Night

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Art Deco 1910–1939

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Remaking Fashion

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Dressed to Rule Imperial Robes of China

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Persuasion Fashion in the Age of Jane Austen

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Martin Grant Paris

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Flair: From salon to boutique Australian fashion labels through the 60s

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Everlasting The Flower in Fashion and Textiles

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Sneakers Classics to Customs

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Katie Pye Clothes for Modern Lovers

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Cinema India The Art of Bollywood

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Across the Desert Aboriginal Batik from Central Australia

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Super Bodies Heroic Fashion from the 1980s

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Krishna Love and Devotion

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Lace in Fashion

Exhibition Past

Australian Made: 100 Years of Fashion

Exhibition Past

Wisdom of the Mountain Art of the Ömie

Exhibition Current

International Art

Exhibition Past

Together Alone Australian and New Zealand Fashion

Exhibition Past

Top Arts: VCE 1999

Essays

Radical Aesthetics – Japanese Fashion

Regencycore: Dress and Jane Austen

Look 47, evening dress Gucci, Florence (fashion house), Tom Ford

Elsa Schiaparelli and the art of illusion

Introducing Westwood | Kawakubo

Révolution de la mode

Fashion in Tudor and Stuart portraiture Breeze Barrington

Dionysus, bag Gucci

Look 8, dress Bottega Veneta

Monyo 紋様 Exploring traditional kimono patterns

The art of imitation

Kimono through the ages

Baguette, bag Fendi

Maison Martin Margiela Bodice and Dress and apron

A dance of materials: between the organic and inorganic in Iris van Herpen’s fashion

Dress and coat, spring–summer 2014 Prada, Milan

The secret of the doll’s dress

The door the bone dress opened

Evening gown Versace

Antica pasticceria Milano, handbag Franco Moschino

Delphos Mariano Fortuny

Stories of saris

Dame Elisabeth’s embroidered garden

Paul Yore The Evacuation of Mallacoota

Tcheu Siong Chao and the Three Spirits (Yawm Saub Chao)

The rainbow flag: a borderless design

England Bedcover

Gothic snowflake

Global trade and the rise of luxury

A perfect fit: conservation of Porcelaine

La Petite, Evening Dress

200 Years of Australian Fashion

Birmingham Ladies Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves Bag

The power of ‘women’s work’: craftivism

Fashioning identity: Madeline Green, Gwen John and Claude Cahun

Beyond Pretty: The possibilities of contemporary jewellery

Selling Suffrage: Visual culture and merchandise

Elsa Schiaparelli and the art of illusion

Rediscovering Fumie Taniguchi

Tammy Kanat: Circles of Life

Maria Grazia Chiuri Essence d’Herbier for Christian Dior

Romance Was Born

Dion Lee Vein sleeveless dress

The lives of a man’s eighteenth-century coat

Pierre Cardin: Jacket and mini dress

Alasdair Duncan MacKinnon: Patchwork of society

Christian Dior dressing the National Gallery of Victoria

Rei Kawakubo’s Dress

Studibaker Hawk’s Empress

Akira Isogawa’s Earring dress

John Galliano’s Elvira evening dress

Balenciaga’s Sandals

MaterialByProduct’s Outfit comprising couture excesses

Lanvin’s Dress and Necklace

Gavin Brown’s Indian snakes and ladders outfit

Moschino’s Survival jacket and trousers

The Trinitarias carpet: early masterpiece or modern reproduction?

Mariano Fortuny Coat

Unknown dressmaker Wedding outfit

Precocious style: the Fashion Design Council, 1983–93

Dior and Yamamoto: The New Look

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Wool works at the National Gallery of Victoria

Kanak people Costume mask

Linda Jackson Collection of outfits

Rick Owens Outfit

Videos

Westwood | Kawakubo: Exhibition Preview

Julia Fox: Flower Obsession

The Prada dress Fashion Illustration with Angie Réhe

The Gucci coat Fashion Illustration with Angie Réhe

The Dior shoe Fashion Illustration with Angie Réhe

An Interview with Michael Schmidt Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse

Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto | Collecting Chanel Preserving the past

Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto | The little black dress A symbol of modernity

Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto | Curator favourites Curator talk

Unboxing Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto Behind the scenes

Introducing Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto Curated by the Palais Galliera, Paris

Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto In partnership with the Palais Galliera

Craft and Culture | Textiles in the Asian galleries With Senior Curator of Asian Art Wayne Crothers

Guo Pei NGV Trennial 2017

Making of Essence d’Herbier The House of Dior

Maria Grazia Chiuri Interview The House of Dior

Svetlana Lloyd Interview Modelling for the House of Dior

Stephen Jones Interview The House of Dior

Odile Interview Modelling for the House of Dior

Making of Red Bar Coat in the Christian Dior Atelier The House of Dior

Viktor&Rolf’s Zen Garden collection Thierry-Maxime Loriot

Viktor&Rolf’s Russian Doll collection Thierry-Maxime Loriot

The story of Viktor&Rolf Thierry-Maxime Loriot

The Making of Viktor&Rolf: Fashion Artists Behind-the-scenes

A shared history Viktor & Rolf

A leap of faith Viktor & Rolf

Unravelling textile techniques Exquisite Threads

The Making of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk Behind the scenes

Listen

Queer: Stories from the NGV Collection with Courtney Act Podcast

Collecting Comme Gallery Playlist

Learn resources

Learning Resource

Introduction to the Kimono | Japanese Language Teacher Resource Levels 5–10

Learning Resource

Westwood | Kawakubo Exhibition Fact Sheet Levels VCE

Learning Resource

Leaping lines Levels 3-6

Learning Resource

Accessory design: Inspired by Comme des Garçons Levels 7-10

Learning Resource

Japanese vocabulary skills with Noh Theatre costumes and characters Levels 8-10

Learning Resource

Creative Educators: Block Printing with handmadelife – eBook Resource Levels 7-12