EDWARD STEICHEN AND ART DECO FASHION
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Comprising more than 200 vintage photographs and more than forty thirty garments and accessories, Edward Steichen and Art Deco Fashion captures the sophisticatio and elegance of a golden age of fashion and photography. As a chief photographer for fashion's most influential and glamorous magazines, Vogue and Vanity Fair, Edward Steichen created images that were imaginative documents of glamour, talent and style. This stunning exhibition also includes Art Deco fashion from the NGV Fashion and Textiles collecton, with garments and accessories from the 1920s and 1930s.

DIOR AND YAMAMOTO: THE NEW LOOK
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Dior & Yamamoto: The New Look is a small exhibition that considers two pivotal moments in the history of fashion through designers Christian Dior and Yohji Yamamoto. 

In the history of fashion, there have been several moments that have entirely changed the way people dress. In 1947, Dior’s debut spring collection completely transformed fashion from the angular silhouette of the 1940s into softer feminine hourglass shapes with wasp-waists and billowing skirts almost overnight. Carmel Snow at Harper’s Bazaar dubbed it the ‘New Look’. In 1981, Yohji Yamamoto’s debut Paris collection also changed the course of fashion history—shaking up the concept of Western-style clothing with a rag-like collection and throwing the fashion world into controversy. His collections created a new vocabulary in fashion which has altered its course. Yamamoto did not introduce this look alone, but his work holds particular resonance with the work of Dior. This project draws out some of those connections through selected garments, photographs and prints.

PROPORTION DISTORTION
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NGV Studio presents Proportion Distortion, an exploration of the relationship between body and proportion in fashion design. A collection of emerging Melbourne fashion designers will occupy NGV studio to parade to the public how proportions of the individual body are matched and tested against the dimensions of garment design. Proportion Distortion illustrates how the balancing act of lines of design over bodies can reject or embrace symmetry and expand volume around hips, shoulders or head in multiple directions

MANSTYLE

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On display at both The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia and NGV International fashion galleries, this is the first exhibition in Australia to focus on international and Australian men’s fashion from the eighteenth century to the present. From the absolute restraint of the dandy to the flamboyance of the peacock male, ManStyle charts a course between the two extremes of masculine dress.

DRAPE:CLASSICAL MODE TO CONTEMPORARY DRESS
2 December 2009 - 27 June 2010

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Drape explores the nature of cloth over the body in two dominant modes: clinging drape and elevated drape

REMAKING FASHION

26 September 2008-19 April 2009

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Remaking Fashion examined the process of making - and evidence of the process of making - in contemporary design

BLACK IN FASHION: MOURNING TO NIGHT

29 February-29 August 2008

-Co-Curator
Black in Fashion traced the changing significance of black in western fashion from the 17th century to the present day