To launch “Fashion in Focus,” I’ve decided to gather 5 online resources to learn about fashion from non-hegemonic perspectives. My selection includes projects that focus on Native American, Black, Asian, and Latin American fashion practices. I also dared to include a nascent project of mine that I’m excited to build now that I have officially completed my doctorate.
After taking a break from fashion to recover from burnout and reflect on my next steps, I can now say that I am still committed to continuing research in fashion, art, and design history and theory, and bridging the gap between art and design scholarship and the creative industries and art market.
As I try to take a break from fashion in the last couple of months, I’ve spent more time reading, learning, and thinking about Indigenous arts, including but definitely not limited to textiles and fashion. I’ve also started to work on a couple of related—and very exciting—projects. One of them attempts to lay out what we can learn from Indigenous methodologies to research Indigenous fashion. In this new exploration, I have inevitably stumbled upon some of my internal debates about “decolonization.”
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how fashion functions. And by fashion I mean the global fashion system comprising relationships between things, humans, and the ecosystems that we are part of—not just a sort of plain exchange between producers and consumers.
In my musings about the functioning of fashion, I’ve also been thinking about its order.
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Today I had the chance to participate in an Instagram Live that gave me a space to reflect about what “Indigenous” fashion is or should be and, more generally, on how to reject colonialist ideas in the Latin American fashion system.
I proposed collaboration as one of the main strategies for decolonization.
My mission of the day is therefore to highlight the need to question absolutely every narrative we’re told from Euro-North American perspectives about what fashion is and should be—whether it’s Latinx fashion or not. To do so, I’ll use my personal experiences as well as my experiences as an educator—as I end up doing almost inevitably these days.
I realized last week, while I was preparing an Instagram post on what it means to be a researcher in fashion for Latinoamérica de Moda (in Spanish, sadly) that I have way too many things to share about it. So I decided to dedicate this post to the subject.
I’ve been thinking about the collective state of panic I’ve seen in the country—especially among some specific social sectors—and about the many comments and predictions. But, most importantly, I’ve been trying to figure out how fashion enters the whole issue. Because, as you might know, I just don’t seem to be able to think without integrating fashion in one way or another.