‘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 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…
Decolonizing Fashion at the Costume Society of America 2019 Annual Symposium
By Arti Sandhu University of Cincinnati Mid-April 2019, the RCDF organized two research presentation panels for the Costume Society of…
International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) Roundtable Endangered Textile Design: Will We Make Room For It To Survive? Leiden, July 18, 2019
For the participants: What indigenous weavers need to be able to perpetuate their unique, cultural designs in their communities has…
Giving a Damn and Hyperopia: Decolonizing for Sustainability
By Sandra Niessen The more effectively a fashion producer functions the more destructive it is. That is the nature of…
DECOLONIZING FASHION: Defying the ‘White Man’s Gaze’
Walter Crane, Imperial Federation: Map Showing the Extent of the British Empire in 1886. Colour lithograph. Published by Maclure &…
Report of the Seminar (Re)Thinking Fashion Globalization
By Toby Slade RCDF Steering Committee Member On 15-16 February 2019 the RCDF co-organized the seminar ReThinking Fashion Globalization in…
“The dream that keeps haunting me” by Ina-Maria Shikongo
I am Ina-Maria Shikongo born by Pondo ya Nangobe and Anelly Thomas in the refugee camps of Angola in 1979,…
Seminar (Re)Thinking Fashion Globalization, Tokyo 15-16 February 2019
(RE)THINKING FASHION GLOBALIZATION Seminar co-organized by The Transboundary Fashion Seminar & the Research Collective for Decolonizing Fashion Bunka Gakuen University…
CALL FOR NEW MEMBERS RCDF EDITORIAL TEAM
The RCDF’s editorial team is looking to fill the following positions: Editor-in-Chief Responsible for coordinating all different tasks and members…
‘A Decolonial Approach to the Singapore Fashion System,’ by Baey Shi Chen
Image Caption: Menswear that stages a conversation between Eastern and Western fashion while challenging gender norms. Label: Jon Max Goh.…
‘African Fashion and fashionability on Instagram’ by Enrica Picarelli
The context: Africa in the mainstream Last May British-Ghanaian designer Ozwald Boateng hailed the era of “Africanism” from the pages…
‘The Japanese Body: A Contested Terrain in the Meiji Restoration Era’ by Emilia Boulton
The relationship between society, dress and the body has always been complicated throughout history. For Japan, this became prevalent during…
‘Decolonising Mentalities’ by Luz Neira García
In Brazil, as well as other Latin-American countries, fashion decolonising is not (yet) a broadly debated subject. Both the fashion…
Call For Submissions
In order to stimulate and encourage a broad and inclusive discussion on decolonizing fashion, the Research Collective for Decolonizing Fashion…
‘Building a suite of pedagogy that seeks to decolonize fashion’ by Kimberly M. Jenkins
As an emerging fashion studies scholar of color, I have sought to advance the field through integrating research and teaching…
