I have personally always found the greatest charm in the long, sweeping curve from the ribcage past the waist and down to the hips.

The vintage fashion lover will quickly hone her detective skills on the clues that garments reveal: style, fabrics, detailing, sizing and the most important determinant of value – the labels!…

In more than forty years of practice, Linda Jackson has played a significant part in the development of a distinctly Australian approach to fashion design.

Introduction Within the genre of South Indian art, sets of paintings on paper depicting a range of subjects including deities, tribes and castes, occupations, regional costumes, festivals and temple sites…

I have always been interested in how actions taken in the past could affect and echo in peoples’ lives in the presen

I have always been interested in how actions taken in the past could affect and echo in peoples’ lives in the presen

On 2 June 2012 the National Gallery of Victoria will open this year’s spectacular Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition, Napoleon: Revolution to Empir

“My love of couture, together with the inspiration and beauty of the Australian bush, brought about the idea of translating all this into a style of art and fashion that…

Celebrating Australia’s premier art gallery’s 150th anniversary Today, 24 May 2011, the National Gallery of Victoria celebrates its 150th birth

Welcome to the online conservation treatment diary for Nicolas Poussin’s Crossing of the Red Se

Opening 11 March, the National Gallery of Victoria will showcase the first exhibition in Australia to focus on men’s fashion from the 18th century to the present da

A National Gallery of Victoria Touring Exhibition 7 July – 29 August 2010 Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery 15 October – 28 November 2010 Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery 15 January…

Abstract Mode presents geometric patterns and forms in women’s and men’s fashion and textiles from the 19th century to the present. Works range from the delicate patterns of mid-to-late 19th century women’s dress to the futuristic 1960s style of Pierre Cardin and the energetic sampling of contemporary fa

This exhibition retraces the dynamic changes in fashion during Jane Austen’s lifetime. Featuring more than 70 works, with most from the NGV Collection, Persuasion surveys the period 1770-1830 and includes fashion, prints and drawings, decorative arts and paintings, with a focus on English women’s dress from the early 19th cent

This is the first exhibition in Australia to survey the enduring presence of floral themes and motifs within western fashion and textiles. On display are 46 examples of women’s and men’s dress, textiles and accessories dating from the middle of the 16th century to the dawn of our present century.