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22—24 May 2025: Exhibition "Loose Threads: Colonialism, Modernity and Personal Histories in Belgian Fashion, 1830–1920". The vernissage will take place on Thursday, May 22, 2025, from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM at the Vandenhove Paviljoen, Rozier 1, Ghent. The exhibition will open to the public on Friday, May 23 and Saturday, May 24, from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM. This exhibition presents the research of eleven MA students from the Department of Art History, Musicology, and Theatre Studies at Ghent University, under the supervision of Prof. dr. Maude Bass-Krueger. Over the course of the semester, the students researched eight garments bearing Belgian labels from the collection of the Royal Museums of Art & History. Dating from the nineteenth to the early twentieth century, these garments offer insight into fashion history, personal narratives, and Belgian cultural heritage. The research explores themes including colonialism, life stages, world fairs, Art Nouveau, material culture, modernity, and the pursuit of fashionability. The students’ work will also be featured on www.fashioningbelgium.com, as part of a broader research project on Belgian fashion history (1830–1980) led by Prof. dr. Maude Bass-Krueger through the Revers research group.
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Revers is a Belgian interdisciplinary network for research in fashion, textiles, and dress. It aims to connect and unite Belgian-based researchers, students and professionals in order to share research outputs, skills, and knowledge resources. Revers hopes to strengthen national collaboration and foster critical interdisciplinary inquiry. The network fosters thematic research seminars, symposia, joint research projects and publications.
Based at Ghent University, Revers is led by Professor Maude Bass-Krueger, with support from doctoral students Karen Van Godtsenhoven, Dries Debackere, Lizzy Rys, and Pauline Devriese. Doctoral candidate Elena Vanden Abeele is in charge of Revers’ coordination and communication.