Organised by the world’s leading museum of art and design, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the exhibition features more than 80 garments from the V&A’s extensive collection of underwear, many which have never before been on public display.

The exhibition explores underwear’s function in decorating and manipulating the body. From corsets and petticoats, brassieres and boudoir wear to bustles, the exhibition spans 350 years of fashion history, bringing together the garments that secretly and privately reduced, lifted, padded, adorned, revealed and concealed the body.