Victoria de Lorenzo

Fashion and Textiles, Material Culture, British business, Textiles, Transnational history, Business and Culture
Business Historians at Business Schools
I approach business history through textiles and fashion. In particular, I am interested in textiles as agents of economic and cultural change in processes of circulation from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.
My holistic approach is grounded in a BA (Hons) in Textile Design (ESDI, Universitat Ramón Llull, Barcelona, with an Erasmus exchange at ÉnsAD, Paris), a BA (Hons) in the History of Art (Universitat de Barcelona, with exchanges at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the University of Pennsylvania), a two-year MA in the History of Design (Victoria and Albert Museum/ Royal College of Art), and an interdisciplinary PhD at the University of Glasgow, funded by a Lord Kelvin-Adam Smith PhD scholarship. Most recently, I completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh for the AHRC-funded digital humanities project ConnectingThreads.co.uk.
In my research, I combine business records with other archival and material sources. I have published articles in Fashion Theory, Enterprise & Society, and The Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9002-3470
Recent Conference Participation
| 2026 BHC Meeting:
Presenter, "Co-(Re)Creating Global South Connections in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: ConnectingThreads.co.uk"
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