African Fashion Research Institute
OPEN CALL: The Fold Gloss_ary The act of layering one thing onto another is being called on; to expand on how we describe the action, the intention, or the reason of folding in the realm of fashion from the African continent. We are seeking 54 entries as 1-minute voice-notes or 1-minute video recordings in all […]
OPEN CALL: Pan-African Research Residency 2023 The Pan-African Research Residency is a fashion-led cultural exchange program attempting to engage with knowledge around the production of barkcloth and Isidwaba, a pleated leather skirt worn by married Zulu women. THE FOLD ‘The Fold’ is an interdisciplinary multimedia project curated by the African Fashion Research Institute in collaboration […]
African Fashion (?) Why do these stereotypes exist and persist? African Fashion (?) is an online, discursive course designed to invite engagement in debates and provocations both as a group and individually. Particular attention is paid to confronting the deep impact of coloniality/modernity in negotiating ways of thinking and writing about fashion from the African […]