Past Exhibitions

View information about the exhibitions within the last five years below.

April 2022 – April 2023: Luis Estévez: Fashion, Elegance, and Exoticization

April 2022 – April 2023: Trans YouTubers and DIY Undergarments: Influencers, Identity, and Community Building

December 2022 – April 2023: Women at Work! Fashion, Ambition, and Utility

May 2022 – November 2022: Sensory Overload

May 2022 – November 2022: Resurgence: The Fashion Show

April 2022 – November 2022: Fashion and Womanhood

April 2022 – May 2022: Fashion, Resistance, and Black Liberation: 1970s and Today

April 2022 – May 2022: Fashion and Dandyism

January 2022 – April 2022: 1960s Revolution

January 2022 – April 2022: Denim: Dress and the Evolution of American Identities

October 1, 2021 – March 2022: Fashion Forward: Centering Justice in Fashion History

October 1, 2021 – March 2022: Des Moines Gay Men’s Chorus, Queer Spaces, Collectives Styles, and Activist Dress, 1984 to the Present

February 3 – April 17, 2020: Collegiate Fashion and Activism: Black Women’s Styles on the College Campus

September 19 – November 22, 2019: By Design: Process – Production – Profession

May 1 – June 28, 2019: Winners of The Fashion Show 2019

October 26, 2018 – April 23, 2019: Designed for a Modern Life: Decorative Arts and Fashion in the Mid-century

August 20 – October 12, 2018: What’s New? Recent Acquisitions to the Textiles and Clothing Museum Collection

April 25 – July 27, 2018: Winning Designs from the Fashion Show 2018

February 1 – April 14, 2018: Queer Fashion and Style: Stories from the Heartland

September 11 – November 10, 2017: Talking Textiles: Communicating Through Cloth

To view exhibitions that are older than five years, visit the exhibition archive.