Annual General Meeting 2021

A three-day online programme of conversations with fashion creatives, thinkers and activists, short film projections and RCDF Zine launch. After…

Newsletter 2021#4

Hello, We hope this newsletter finds you well and in good health. You haven’t heard from us in a while,…

Decolonial Fashion Practice #5

By Toby Slade For the Conversation on Decoloniality and Fashion online session on 5th June 2021, I joined co-convenors Angela Jansen, Shayna Goncalves…

Decolonial Fashion Lament and the Call to Action*

Photo taken by Sandra Niessen, Indigenous gloves from Alberta, Canada. As a Canadian, as a citizen of the world, as…

Decolonial Fashion Practice #4

By Erica de Greef For the Conversation on Decoloniality and Fashion online session on 1st May 2021, co-convenors Angela Jansen, Shayna Goncalves and…

“Racist Fashion”: An Ombudsman to Face Silencing by Helena Soares and Mi Medrado

Image by Mitti Mendonça (@mao.negra) Today is May 13. In Brazil in 1888 on this day, the Portuguese empire signed the…

Textiles to Embody Personal Narratives

By Benjamin Mengistu Navet Textile designer based in Brussels Colonial and postcolonial histories occupy an important place in my family.…

Decolonial Fashion Practice #3

By Erica de Greef For the third Conversation on Decoloniality and Fashion online session on 3rd April 2021, co-convenors Angela…

Nada Koreish

Nada Koreish is an “other”, always has been. But she has come to embrace this alien feeling, and through experiencing…

Rita Morais de Andrade

Rita Morais de Andrade, Brazilian born from São Paulo city, is Associate Professor at Universidade Federal de Goiás, teaching and…

Decolonial Fashion Practice #2

By Shayna Stephanie Goncalves On Saturday, 6th March 2021 Angela Jansen, Erica de Greef and myself welcomed Walter Mignolo into…

Orientalism and The ‘East’

‘You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes.’ – Diana Vreeland, former Editor in Chief of Vogue.…

SouPreto and Ame Apolinário

Ame Apolinário talks to RCDF about SouPreto Fashion Week and their latest editorial.

Decolonial Fashion Practice #1

By Shayna Stephanie Goncalves The Research Collective for Decolonizing Fashion opened its first Conversations on Decoloniality and Fashion on Saturday,…

Conversations on Decoloniality and Fashion

Conversations on Decoloniality and Fashion is a monthly online series organised by the Research Collective for Decolonizing Fashion for academics,…

State of Fashion Whataboutery Series, ‘This is an Intervention’ 02

Aditi Mayer, fashion activist in Los Angeles, provided the longread for the second Whataboutery in the State of Fashion ‘This…

State of Fashion Whataboutery Series, ‘This is an Intervention’ 01

On 28 October, Sandra Niessen’s publication entitled, ‘Regenerative Fashion: There can be no Other’ was used as the longread for…

State of Fashion Whataboutery Series, “This is an Intervention”

RCDF is presenting a series of blogs on the 2020-2021 activities of State of Fashion because RCDF has played a…

Call for insights into durability

Feature photo by Paul Allister As part of the research project ‘Lasting: Sustainable prosperity through product durability’, led by colleagues…

The Fashion Cities of The Middle East

By Nargess Khodabakhshi In summer 2020, the British supermodel, Naomi Campbell, opened the Paris Fashion Week Online with these…

Fashion Stories @brankopopovic

‘Fashion Stories’ is a series of personal stories about fashion. Each entry tells the story of an adornment that is special to the writer.

Fashion Stories @laloloba

‘Fashion Stories’ is a series of personal stories about fashion. Each entry tells the story of an adornment that is special to the writer.

Fashion Stories @adeline.bird

‘Fashion Stories’ is a series of personal stories about fashion. Each entry tells the story of an adornment that is special to the writer.

Fashion Stories @janicecyli

‘Fashion Stories’ is a series of personal stories about fashion. Each entry tells the story of an adornment that is special to the writer.

DECOLONIZING THE STUDY OF FASHION?

By Martina Barroeta Zalaquett Over the last few days there has been a considerable amount of discussion regarding the importance…

Call For Papers – International Journal of Fashion Studies

Special Issue on Decolonizing Fashion as Process Theme Statement: Decolonizing fashion is not an isolated event, an act that happens and…

Decolonising The Fashion Management Curriculum: What Is The Hold Up?

By Ranjit Thind The United Kingdom higher education system attracted 2.45 million students to its institutions in academic year 2018/19,…

Fashion Stories @missvavavum

‘Fashion Stories’ is a series of personal stories about fashion. Each entry tells the story of an adornment that is special to the writer.

Fashion Stories @fashionnerd.cl

‘Fashion Stories’ is a series of personal stories about fashion. Each entry tells the story of an adornment that is special to the writer.

Fashion Stories @itspierreantoine

‘Fashion Stories’ is a series of personal stories about fashion. Each entry tells the story of an adornment that is special to the writer.

Connecting the Dots – or Why I eschew the term ‘Garment Workers’

By Sandra Niessen Garment workers. Supply chain transparency. Living wage. Decent working conditions…. Just a few words is all it…

What does ‘fashion’ mean?

By Isabella Lock, [Image above by Krysten Resnick] According to the dictionary, fashion means a popular style of clothing, hair…

Reflections on Decolonising Fashion in the Face of Climate Change

by Erica de Greef Conversations to Redress a Fashion Disaster was the first critical, discursive event convened by the Research…

Keynote: Fashion, Sustainability and Decoloniality

By Dr Erica de Greef Credit Twyg online by editor Jackie May This week at the Future of Fashion symposium…

Decolonizing Fashion: Refashioning Objects in the Ethnographic Museum

A two-day interdisciplinary think-tank/critical and creative thinking workshop On November 14 and 15, 2019, the RCDF held a stimulating workshop/think…

Sandra Niessen in Residency at the Jan van Eyck Academy, part 8

By Sandra Niessen Dear Participants in the Conversations to Redress a Fashion Disaster, Thank you for joining us in Maastricht…

Sandra Niessen in Residency at the Jan van Eyck Academy, part 7 (wrapping up)

By Sandra Niessen The Climate Intensive for 2019 at the Van Eyck Academy is over. We are winding down, assessing…

Sandra Niessen in Residency at the Jan van Eyck Academy, part 6

By Sandra Niessen FINDING (DE)COLONIALITY We are in the midst of the countdown. 4 November will soon be upon us.…

Sandra Niessen in Residency at the Jan van Eyck Academy, part 5

By Sandra Niessen When I started my residency at the Van Eyck, I devoted time to exploring the three-way junction…

Conversations to Redress a Fashion Disaster – Resources 2

The excitement of exchange amongst participants on the 4th of November has already begun. In response to the list of…

Conversations to Redress a Fashion Disaster – Resources 1

On November 4, in Conversations to Redress a Fashion Disaster at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, we explore…

Sandra Niessen in Residency at the Jan van Eyck Academy, part 4

By Sandra Niessen The RCDF programme on 4 November at the Van Eyck in Maastricht will include, among a variety…

Conversations to Redress a Fashion Disaster, 4 November 2019

Decolonial Critiques to Fashion’s Climate Urgency Response 4 November 2019 Jan van Eyck Academy Maastricht Conversations to Redress a Fashion…

Sandra Niessen in Residency at the Jan van Eyck Academy, part 3

By Sandra Niessen It has been a steep learning curve of a new type here at the Jan van Eyck.…

Dressed to Resist, Made to Persist: Indigenous Puruhá Fashion in Ecuador

By Anais Parada On October 8th, 2019 I was living in Quito, Ecuador while writing my dissertation. I had initially…

Sandra Niessen in Residency at the Jan van Eyck Academy, part 2

Sandra Niessen, 4 October 2019 Here at the Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, all roads are pointing to 4 November…

Sandra Niessen in Residency at the Jan van Eyck Academy, part 1

Sandra Niessen, 26 September 2019 For three days, starting 4-6 November 2019, the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht will…