Over the last few months, the curatorial team have undertaken the huge task of packing up the collection and moving the 100,000 objects into a secure storage facility at a site owned by the heritage fashion brand on the outskirts of Warminster.
Founded in 1777, Dents has a long history of supplying luxury gloves for royalty, celebrities and the film industry. This includes the beautifully embroidered leather glove that Queen Elizabeth II wore during her coronation ceremony in 1953.
The Fashion Museum and Dents have a long-standing working relationship as both organisations are involved in the management of the Collection of the Worshipful Company of Glovers of London, which has been on loan to the Fashion Museum since the mid-1980s.
Our new temporary home will allow us to care for the world class collection in facilities that meet the high environmental and security standards required for preservation of a museum collection as well as space for the curatorial team to work, as we prepare to move into our new home at the Old Post Office in the centre of Bath.
The curatorial team is continuing its exciting programme of loans out to museums around the world and objects from the collection will feature in four major exhibitions opening this spring:
- Style & Society: Dressing the Georgians at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace
- Crown to Couture at Kensington Palace
- Tartan at V&A Dundee
- India in Fashion: The Impact of Indian Dress and Textiles on the Fashionable Imagination at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre, Mumbai
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Image above: Deborah Moore, CEO of Dents and Rosemary Harden, Fashion Museum Manager with King George VI’s Coronation Glove.
