Author: RCDF

The Research Collective for Decoloniality & Fashion (RCDF), created in 2012, aims to critique the denial and erasure of a true diversity of fashioning systems due to eurocentricity, unequal global power relations based on the modern-colonial order and the Euro-American canon of normativity. Through a global network of sovereign, yet connected fashioning coalitions, it wants to decentralise contemporary fashion discourses and practices, engender solidarity across multiple lines of difference and activate self-representation, self-determination and self-governance in regard to body fashioning. Transcending academe, it strives to experiment with decolonial ways of knowledge-creation and sharing concerning fashion—through conversation, through the communal and coalitional and through a broad diversity of voices across age, race, gender, education, discipline and geography. To rethink fashion as a multitude of possibilities—rather than a normative framework falsely claiming universality—is to reverse the erasure of a true diversity of fashion futures.

Newsletter 2022#4

Dear RCDF community, We hope you and your loved ones are doing well. We are writing this newsletter right after … More

Call for Contributions

RCDF e-Zine 2022 The yearly RCDF e-Zine is key in connecting and inspiring how decoloniality and fashion are lived and … More

RCDF Foundation Survey

Hello RCDF community, The Research Collective for Decoloniality and Fashion is turning 10!  We are gathering the community’s opinions to … More

Newsletter 2022#3

Dear RCDF community, Before you take a well-deserved (extended) Summer or Winter break, we hope this newsletter finds you well … More

Newsletter 2021#4

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

Nada Koreish

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

Rita Morais de Andrade

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

Newsletter 2021 #2

Dear reader, Before you know it, weeks, months and a season have passed and it is time for another RCDF … More

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, … More

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 … More

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 … More

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.

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.