Be introduced to key moments in the history of dress from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.

During the conservation condition assessment in 2006 of a Victorian doll’s dress,

This essay was first published in NGV Triennial 2023, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

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These two public discussions form part of a larger series running throughout 2023 and facilitated by Monash Architecture.

Modern Art and Design Innovators: 1930-1970, examines the rapidly shifting times of the mid-century, in particular, the women artists and designers who reimagined modernism and exported their radical new ideas…

A Studio of Her Own explores the period 1500–1900 and the women artists and designers who, despite the many obstacles to their independence, set up professional studios and made successful…

Framers in Focus: A series of essays on 19th century Melbourne frame makers produced by the NGV Centre for Frame Research.

This course commenced on 28 June. Enrolments have been extended to midnight on Sunday 11 July. Once enrolled you can start the course at any time.

Ordinarily I would insist on referring to any artist — woman, man or other — by their last name: Picasso, Monet, Warhol, Kngwarray and so

When this lovely example of Regency fashion entered the collection in 2018, the NGV Textiles Conservation team went scrambling for their history books and Jane Austen novels.

Explore the enormous social changes that took place in the nineteenth-century and how these are reflected in the art and design of the period, from the industrial revolution to William…

Danielle Whitfield, Curator, Fashion and Textiles, and Susan van Wyk, Senior Curator, Photography, share their perspectives of a dress that first found its way into the NGV Collection via a…

Victorian’s, both in England and in the colonies, were enamoured with donning fancy dress costume when attending events such as parlour games, theatricals and balls, and would go to extreme…

In his 1956 autobiography, Christian Dior reflected on ‘the miracle of fashion’, commenting that ‘in the world today haute couture is one of the last repositories of the marvellous and…