Research Collective for Decoloniality & Fashion

The Research Collective for Decoloniality & Fashion (RCDF) is an experimental platform beyond institutional, disciplinary and geographical boundaries initiated in 2012. It aims to critique the denial and erasure of a diversity of fashioning systems due to eurocentricity, unequal global power relations based on the modern-colonial order and the Euro-American canon of normativity materialised in modern aesthetics.

Transcending academe, the Collective aims to experiment with decentral and decolonial ways of knowledge-creation and sharing concerning fashion— through the relational, communal and coalitional and through the radical act of listening across multiple differences. Through a global network of local fashion coalitions, we want to decentralise knowledge creation and sharing regarding fashion, to engender solidarity across multiple lines of difference and support self-representation, self-activation and self-determination based on the principle of ‘nothing about us without us.’