Research Collective for Decoloniality & Fashion

A WORD FROM THE RCDF EDITOR

March 2023

The second edition of Decolonial Zine on Fashion, published by the Research Collective for Decoloniality and Fashion, was published on March 31 during our Annual General Meeting. The e-publication celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Research Collective for Decoloniality and Fashion!

First and foremost, we celebrate our journey by being grateful for everyone who, in one way or another, felt the coloniality wounds and searched through knowledge, methodologies, senses, materiality, and coalitions to decentralize and reassess the Fashion industry and systems.

The zine is an experimental and plurilingual publication that challenges editorial, writing, and narrative styles. The decolonial axes bring contributions and references from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, India, Mexico, Norway, New Zealand, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States, and South Africa. The idea is to broaden our audience while graphically showing foreign languages written and expressed — many are written (and some with translation) in English, Arabic, Dutch, French, English, Spanish, te reo Māori, and Portuguese.

The aim is to circulate decolonial fashion narratives and practices to support and engage in pedagogical and research methodologies to access what has been erased due to the untrustworthy eurocentric and white-homogenized Fashion industry bringing shapes, colors, and textures that cross and go beyond and through the colonial matrix of power (A.Quijano) of fashion.

This insurgent publication is possible due to the commitment of Gabriela Lopes, James Green, Mi Medrado, and all 32 contributors who have not received any funding to bring that to light.

I hope we keep engaging the decolonial perspective and criticism in fashion worldwide.

If you are spreading the word about the e-publication, please share the e-zine series website: decolonialzine.fashion/

Decolonial greetings,

Mi Medrado | decolonialzine.fashion