4-570: The Dress of the Year is an annual fashion award run by the Fashion Museum, Bath since 1963. Each year since 1963, the Museum has asked a fashion journalist to select a dress or outfit that best represents the most important new ideas in contemporary fashion. For 2010 the Museum broke with tradition by asking the milliner Stephen Jones , rather than a journalist, to choose an outfit; and again in 2014 when
8-525: A dress for entry into this part of the collection. The designers whose work is represented include: Mary Quant , John Bates , Ossie Clark , Jean Muir , Bill Gibb , Giorgio Armani , John Galliano , Ralph Lauren , Alexander McQueen , Donatella Versace and Alber Elbaz . In 2019, the National Trust , who owns the Assembly Rooms, exercised a break clause in the museum's contract to make room for
12-617: The fashion blogger , Susanna Lau of Style Bubble , was asked to choose an outfit for 2013. The outfit is then donated to the Fashion Museum along with an Adel Rootstein mannequin to represent that year's total look. Fashion Museum, Bath The Fashion Museum (known before 2007 as the Museum of Costume ) was housed in the Assembly Rooms in Bath , Somerset , England. The collection
16-491: Was started by Doris Langley Moore , who gave her collection of costumes to the city of Bath in 1963. The museum focuses on fashionable dress for men, women and children from the late 16th century to the present day, and has more than 100,000 objects. The earliest pieces are embroidered shirts and gloves from c. 1600 . The museum receives about 100,000 visitors annually. Every year from its creation in 1963, an independent fashion expert has been asked to select
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