An intro to decolonial fashion theory

Is fashion a Western concept? Or is that just one of colonialism's most successful propaganda campaigns? While there are many fundamentally colonial/Western aspects to the fashion system at large today, that shouldn't leave us to abandon fashion all together. People have been fashioning their bodies since the beginning of time and if we want to create better and more fulfilling fashion systems for tomorrow, we must look to the histories, approaches and cultures that have been marginalised and subjugated by coloniality. Decolonial fashion theory, as so brilliantly summarised by M. Angela Jansen, presents how fashion can be a powerful tool for delinking ourselves from modernity and its horror, and how we can begin to envision new structures! If you'd like to financially support me or get bonus content, you can become a member of my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/khensani Otherwise, you can find me being silly goofy on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/okbaddiek/?hl=en Footnotes (Bibliography) [1] Fashion and the Phantasmagoria of Modernity: An Introduction to Decolonial Fashion Discourse (2020) by M. Angela Jansen [https://www.academia.edu/43818248/Fashion_and_the_Phantasmagoria_of_Modernity_An_Introduction_to_Decolonial_Fashion_Discourse] [2] Beyond denial and exclusion: The history of relations between Christians and Muslims in the Cape Colony during the 17th–18th centuries with lessons for a post-colonial theology of religions by [https://hts.org.za/index.php/ht