Dress of the Year

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.

[1] For 2010 the Museum broke with tradition by asking the milliner Stephen Jones, rather than a journalist, to choose an outfit;[2] and again in 2014 when the fashion blogger, Susanna Lau of Style Bubble, was asked to choose an outfit for 2013.

[3] The outfit is then donated to the Fashion Museum along with an Adel Rootstein mannequin to represent that year's total look.

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Dress of the Year exhibit at the Fashion Museum, Bath. From left to right, outfits by Christopher Kane (2013), Mary Quant (1963), and John Galliano (1987).