The Lowlands Decolonial Fashion Network, consisting of FashionClash, the Linen Project, the Dutch Crafts Council, Tailors & Wearers and the Research Collective for Decoloniality & Fashion, organised four one-day in-person field-trips between June and September 2024 to host each other and to reflect on four topics through a decolonial lens: fashion, cultural heritage, crafts and natural resources/local knowledges. In June 2024,…

An intimate listening session with a community of makers exploring Xhosa fashion histories & sensibilities in Mrs James home. Our GFA24 hosting programme was a practice in deep listening and knowledge sharing. We hosted a screening and the release of the new seasons stories. This intimate engagement was not just about reading the material culture…

Kazakh fashion experts, designers, stylists, craftspeople and artists amidst post-colonial and post-communist aftermath. Inheriting suppressed identity and language, sharing the tumultuous events of the XX century and being pushed by the XXI century globalization and geopolitics, Kazakh fashion, crafts and arts are dealing with several parallel challenges. On the one hand, rediscovering their traditions and…