Fashion
Tour
Members Hour: Elizabeth Bay House for Treading Feintly
Experience Members Hour at Elizabeth Bay House for Treading Feintly
Monday 29 June 2pm–3pm
Talk
Adrian Feint Revisited
Join us at Elizabeth Bay House for a conversation with the creative minds behind independent fashion house Nicol & Ford
Thursday 25 June 6pm–7pm
Exhibition
Treading Feintly
This exhibition showcases select pieces from fashion house Nicol & Ford’s runway presentation for Australian Fashion Week 2026
Sunday 17 May
Workshop
A Floristry Workshop with Date Night Studio
Enjoy an afternoon of flowers, fashion and conversation at the historic Elizabeth Bay House
Sunday 5 July 1.30pm–3.30pm
An icon wearing an icon: Sydney Opera House Barbie
Stepping away from her signature pink, Barbie honours the Sydney Opera House with more subtle tones in her gown, that reflect the Opera House and its Harbourside location
Keeping cool
Shading the face, fanning a fire into a blaze or cooling food, shooing away insects, conveying social status, even passing discreet romantic messages - the use of the fan goes far beyond the creation of a breeze
Baubles, brooches & beads
We wear jewellery as articles of dress and fashion and for sentimental reasons – as tokens of love, as symbols of mourning, as souvenirs of travel
Bicornes, bonnets & boaters
There’s a variety of headwear across our collections ranging in date from early to late nineteenth century
Sydney’s first Zoot Suiter
It’s amazing the characters you come across when researching the NSW Police Forensic Archive