Biography
Alice Janssens is a PhD candidate and lecturer at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication.
In December 2016 she began her fully-funded research project upon fashion capitals and the business and economic history of the Berlin fashion industry, provisionally titled The Rise and Fall of Berlin as a Fashion Capital: 1924-1939. The project, supervised by Prof. Dr. Hein Klemann and Prof. Dr. Ben Wubs, aims to explore the success and decline of the Berlin fashion industry during the Interwar period. The research is the pilot of a larger project on global fashion capitals.
Alice Janssens holds a Master degree in Cultural Economics and Entrepreneurship from Erasmus University Rotterdam (2016) and has worked in the fashion, cultural heritage and contemporary art sectors. Her main research interests include fashion history, business history, economic history, economics of the cultural industries, and 20th century political history.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- janssens@eshcc.eur.nl
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Ben Wubs, Mariangela Lavanga & Alice Janssens (2020) - Letter from the Editors: The Past and Present of Fashion Cities - Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, 24 (3), 319-324 - doi: 10.1080/1362704X.2020.1732012 - [link]
- Alice Janssens (2019) - Busines History of Fashion: The State of the Art
- Alice Janssens (2019) - A Sweet Gesture and a Future Investment - [link]
- Qian Huang & Alice Janssens (2019) - Come mangiare un cannolo con le bacchette: The Contested Field of Luxury Fashion in China, a Case Study of the 2018 Dolce & Gabbana Advertising Incident - ZoneModa Journal, 9 (2), 123-140 - doi: 10.6092/issn.2611-0563/9970 - [link]
- Alice Janssens (2019) - Interwoven Spaces: Exploring Berlin as Fashion City - [link]
- Alice Janssens & Mariangela Lavanga (2018) - An Expensive, Confusing and Ineffective Suit of Armour; Assessing the intellectual property protection system available for fashion designers - Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, 24 (2), 229-260 - doi: 10.1080/1362704X.2018.1515159 - [link]
- Alice Janssens (2018) - Shipping, the sea and fashion - [link]
- Alice Janssens & K Wynne (2018) - Fashion as religion, and a higher moral fabric - Unknown - [link]
- Ben Wubs, Mariangela Lavanga & Alice Janssens (2017) - Co-organiser
- Alice Janssens & Mariangela Lavanga (2017) - An Expensive, Confusing and Ineffective Suit of Armour: Assessing the Intellectual Property Protection System Available for Fashion Designers in the Digital Era
- Ben Wubs, Mariangela Lavanga & Alice Janssens (2020) - Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture (Journal)
- Alice Janssens (2019) - Rotterdam Fair Fashion Tour 2: Waste Not Wear Longer
- Alice Janssens (2019) - Rotterdam Fair Fashion Tour 1: Following Fair Fashion
- Alice Janssens (2019) - First Class Workmanship’ at ‘Reasonable Prices’: Berliner Arbeit on the world market
- Alice Janssens (2019) - Selling Berlin in Germany: Berliner Fashion and Clothing in the Broader German Market
- Alice Janssens (2019) - Aus Pariser Modelle: French Fashions for Berliner Houses
- Alice Janssens (2019) - Interwoven Spaces: Exploring Interwar Berlin as a Fashion City
- Alice Janssens (2019) - 'First Class Workmanship' at 'Reasonable Prices': Berliner arbeit on the world market
- Alice Janssens (2019) - Selling Berlin in Germany: Berliner Fashion and Clothing in the Broader German Market
- Alice Janssens (2019) - Berlin, the 'Streetwear' Capital
Internship
- Year Level
- BA-3, BA-3
