Fin-de-Siècle Fashion Lecture Series — Spring Educational Programme
Victoria Museum announces a spring lecture series on fin-de-siècle fashion 1890-1910 — ten meetings with costume historians, women's history researchers, and conservators.
The Fin-de-Siècle Fashion Lecture Series is a new spring educational programme of Victoria Museum, held every Saturday from March to May 2026. The cycle consists of ten lectures, each devoted to a separate aspect of women's and men's costume of the 1890-1910 era. Among the topics: 'The S-bend Silhouette and the Corset Revolution', 'Charles Frederick Worth and the Birth of Haute Couture', 'Kyiv Fashion of the Silver Age', 'The Ukrainian Vyshyvanka in the Modernist Urban Wardrobe'.
The programme lecturers are leading Ukrainian researchers: teaching staff of the Department of Art History of the Kyiv Academy, authors of monographs on Ukrainian 19th-century costume, textile restorers from the National Art Museum of Ukraine. Each lecture is accompanied by a tour of relevant exhibits from the museum collection in 'lecture + closed tour' mode. Admission is free with prior registration, maximum twenty-five participants per session. Registration is via the museum website and in person at the box office.
