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24/07/2013 1 Trademarks and Reputation: Fashioning a Name for Innovation in Early Modern Europe
Evelyn Welch King’s College, London
Fashioning the Early Modern: Creativity and Innovation in Europe 1500 1800 Europe, 1500-1800
Research Questions
- How and why did certain goods become
fashionable in Early Modern Europe while
- thers failed?
- What were the mechanisms through which
What were the mechanisms through which ideas about fashion were communicated across linguistic, social and geographic borders?
- How can we use knowledge of fashion
innovations from the past to inform creative practices today?
Project PIs
- Evelyn Welch, Queen Mary, University of
London
- Lesley Miller, Victoria and Albert Museum,
London
- Peter McNeil, Institute for Fashion Studies,
University of Stockholm
- Marie-Louise Nosch and Maj Ringaard,
Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen
- Paula Hohti, Collegium for Advanced Studies,