This is a hybrid collaborative response to the current state of the North African fashion system. Where value and perception are key drivers in how we respond to fashion. We look at how value is assigned and how we can break the cycle. An amazing collaboration with collective members Sacer and founder Nada Koreish. Watch…

For the GFA 2024, Mweno Decolonial Fashion + Art Collective hosted an open-day event to allow attendees to experience fashion and art through the creative work of AfroAsy by Dey Tchissapa, Av X DressCode, Gato Preto, and Marca Buala. The exhibition was based on photographs, video art, graphite, and a catwalk performance aiming to introduce…

The Pakistan Collective of Decolonial Practice is organised around transdisciplinary approaches to undoing the deep epistemic violence of our colonial history, convene to discuss, to write, to produce exhibitions and publications that center the work of Pakistani designers, artists, architects, scholars, researchers and poets. For the GFA24, we organised two panels around the theme of…

The conversation about female needlework, cottage industries and local weaving and needlework traditions in Croatia and Ireland. CIMO, a nonprofit organisation based in Zagreb (Croatia), is researching the theoretical and creative aspects of fashion and clothing as part of contemporary visual culture. For the GFA24, we focused on the concept of soft arts and softness…

This event seeks to explore power dynamics within the fashion sector in Flanders, while building a community and encouraging conversations. “Not in Vogue: Decentering Fashion Narratives in Flanders” is a community-driven event dedicated to discussing decoloniality, fashion and repair. At its core, this event focuses on sharing perspectives and fostering a deeper understanding of power…

The research on the lesser known reversible embroidered quilts of the Shershabadi community from Eastern India was initiated independently by Course Leader, Prof. Saumya Pande, Fashion Design department, Indian Institute of Art and Design (IIAD, New Delhi) in 2017. Over a period of 6 years, 12 field trips were made to Kishanganj and Purnea districts…

The New Zealand Fashion Museum is the first digital museum that provides a platform and umbrella for all things fashion in Aotearoa (New Zealand). With no fixed physical location or collection its activities and stories are developed in response to the concerns of the day and the questions and needs of its audiences. Our primary…

Walking as a pedagogical and a fashion contemplative act. Through walking, we can stroll the past, with history in the present, and possible futures. Pelourinho (Brasil) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a territory where people can learn, experience, and sense Afro-Brazilian aesthetics and culture. Pelourinho is a cultural and commercial center; walking through…

The Mendit Research Lab, founded by Liudmila Aliabieva in Moscow in August 2021, is an independent practice-led female research collective that brings together nine participants who are close in research and creative spirit united by their interest in clothing cultures, sustainable practices, textile activism and co-creative strategies. The Lab operates in a variety of formats, ranging…

As six Turkish women, we call ourselves Witches of the East Collective.’ We are a non-profit, ecofeminist design collective aiming to repair the relationship between humans and nature through ethical, symbiotic, circular, and slow ways of thinking and designing. We are upcyclers, biodesigners, farmers, ethical foragers, and eco-printers whose instruments are textiles, clothing, spaces, and…

Tuesday, October 15 2024 How have ancestral design practices evolved? How are they used today? For our GFA24 hosting, we delve into the process of traditional textile printing, beading, weaving styles over the decades and digital fabric production through artistic practice, fashion design and community collaboration. Moderated by the founder of OwnYourCulture, Chepkemboi Mang’ira, we…

The Ghana International Fashion Team (GiFt) is an informal collective of five Ghanaian creative professionals, including Ewurasi Ansah (LittlebigEsi – Sustainable Fashion Re-designer), Faustina Apea (Fashion Entrepreneur), Dr. Sela Adjei (Efosela – Artist/Author), Frederick Bamfo (Artist/Researcher) and Beatrice Bee Arthur (Fashion Designer). For our GFA24 hosting programme, we focussed on the devastating impact of Western…

Methodologies to explore the relationship between dress, identity and the deconstruction of gender and colonialism in Latin America. Colectivo Malvestidas: Vestir y Devenir Our hosting programme consists of a panel discussion “Dress and Become”, which uses a transnational and transdisciplinary methodology to explore the relationship between dress, identity and the deconstruction of gender and colonialism…

An invitation to provoke change! as we are facing an almost global shift to the far-right, from a critical fashion research perspective. Fighting Fascism Through Fashion: Hacking White Supremacy, by the Austrian Center for Fashion Research in collaboration with “Fashion and the Far Right: The New Complexity in Style” at the academy of fine arts,…

For this GFA24 hosting, experts speak about how to degrow the European Fashion System and move towards a fashion commons whilst centering justice. Commons are alternatives to growth-based capitalist systems, emerging when communities collaborate to self-provision or to reach shared goals in fair and democratic ways. OurCommon.Market, a project powered by activist group Fashion Act…

A speculative fiction workshop exploring an alternate world where business size is capped preventing the concentration of corporate power. This speculative workshop is based on the Fashion Fictions model which brings people together to engage with “fictional visions of alternative fashion cultures and systems.” For our GFA24 hosting programme, we bring together sustainable footwear pioneers to explore…

Online conversation (in Spanish) on “Buen Vivir of the Andean indigenous peoples and fashion” at the Aurora School (Catamarca, Argentina) Buen Vivir of the native communities of the Andes can be synthesised as living in plenitude, knowing how to live in harmony with the cycles of Mother Earth, the cosmos, life and history, and in…