Fashion’s unhealed wounds: is reparative justice possible?

Paper presented at the launch of the LCF Transnational Fashion Network:

Informed by Achille Mbembe’s reclaiming of decolonisation as a project of “deborderisation” grounded in the “imperative to reconstruct the world in common”, we will explore how fashion, creative practice, and critical pedagogy can contribute to the disenclosure of the planet and the reconstitution of humanity. Our aim is to bridge the gap between studies of decolonisation of fashion, creative practice, and critical pedagogy on the one hand, and critiques of fashion's systemic, transnational inequalities on the other.

Led by Serkan Delice and Anne Reimers, the LCF Transnational Fashion Network is the world’s first research body dedicated to investigating how fashion—as discourse, material object, performance, and visual and cultural economy—is produced, disseminated, and practiced across national borders, both historically and now.

Established in 2017 by the late Djurdja Bartlett, this network provides a platform for researchers and practitioners interested in investigating the movement and intersections of people, ideas, commodities, labour, capital, and culture within the circuits of production, representation, consumption, and subject formation. It welcomes both text- and practice-based researchers across LCF and UAL, as well as collaborators and practitioners working outside the university framework.