Fashioning Belgium is a collaborative research initiative co-founded with the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels and supported under the FED-tWIN mandate.

 

The research is further backed by Revers, a Belgian fashion research group based at Ghent University and led by Prof. dr. Bass-Krueger and PhD-researcher Karen Van Godtsenhoven.

 

Since Spring 2024, the seminar has focused - and will continue to focus - on the history of Belgian Fashion from the founding of Belgium in 1830 up to 1980, the year the Antwerp Six rose to international fame.

This year’s research project blossomed in the Spring 2025 seminar, "Belgian Fashion before the Antwerp Six."

 

Our journey includes exhibition and archive visits, research progress and final results, all of which are documented here on our website and across our social media platforms. Work from previous years can be explored in the “archive” section.

 

The 2025 student-led exhibition, Loose Threads: Colonialism, Modernity and Personal Histories in Belgian Fashion, will showcase our research findings. It will take place at the Vandenhove Center at Ghent University from May 23-25, 2025.

 

Curious to know who we are? Meet the team below.