Eleri Lynn

Eleri Lynn is a fashion and textiles historian, curator, and author. She gained her curatorial experience within the Textiles and Fashion Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum before becoming Curator of the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection at Historic Royal Palaces, and thereafter Head of Exhibitions at National Museum Wales. She is a Trustee of the Royal School of Needlework, based at Hampton Court Palace. She has presented at numerous academic conferences and has been a guest lecturer at several universities. She is also regularly interviewed by press and TV, most recently featuring in the BBC2 ‘Art That Made Us’ series and BBC1’s ‘Elizabeth: Fashioning a Monarch’. She is the author of several monographs: Fashion in Detail: Underwear (V&A Publications, 2010), Tudor Fashion (Yale University Press, 2017 – winner of the Historians of British Art prize for scholarship pre-1600 in a single-authored work, 2017-18), and Tudor Textiles (Yale University Press, 2020), and a contributor to Floral Culture in the Tudor and Stuart Courts (Amsterdam University Press, 2023). Eleri is the curator of several major fashion and textiles exhibitions including Diana: Her Fashion Story (Kensington Palace, 2017), The Lost Dress of Elizabeth I (Hampton Court Palace, 2019), and Undressed: 350 Years of Underwear in Fashion (V&A touring, 2013-14). She was part of the curatorial teams on Savage Beauty: Alexander McQueen (V&A, 2013), The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-57 (V&A, 2007), Fashion Rules Restyled (Kensington Palace, 2015), and Crown to Couture (Kensington Palace, 2023). She is currently working on a monograph for Bloomsbury Visual Arts on the subject of fashion and power through history.