Lewis Carroll’s Alice and the emergence of a style icon

She's influenced Lizzie Jagger, inspired Gwen Stefani, and her iconic look has been adapted for everything from tattoos to the hijab. Few literary characters have influenced the way we dress quite so remarkably as Lewis Carroll's Alice. A researcher at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) will next year lead a major project to explore the impact of Alice on fashion and how we dress. The project, entitled Addressing Alice: The Emergence of a Style Icon , will coincide with the 150th anniversary of Carroll's seminal first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . In 2015, Dr Kiera Vaclavik , Senior Lecturer at QMUL, will curate an exhibition at the V&A Museum of Childhood , and will collaborate with a series of partners including Liberty London , the Lewis Carroll Society , and internationally renowned artists and creative professionals. Dr Vaclavik will focus particularly on Alice in the nineteenth century, as a way of understanding and charting her character's remarkable influence on the many styles and trends that followed. According to Dr Vaclavik: "Our work will bring together two growing, but mostly separate academic fields: children's literature and fashion studies.