The Seventh Fashion Forward Symposium
DECOLONIALITY & FASHION UNRAVELED
A Symposium Takeover by the Research Collective for Decoloniality & Fashion
Time:
June 27th, 2021
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST
Platform:
Zoom (RSVP by email)
info@fashionforward.io
Suggested Donation:
$15
Fashion Forward presents the next installment of its symposium series featuring experts studying how decoloniality inspires to acknowledge histories of colonial damage, to heal colonial/modern wounds and to validate, confide and rely on localized and pluriversal knowledges, skills, resources and people.
Our Speakers
DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH COLLECTIVE FOR DECOLONIZING FASHION
M. Angela Jansen is an independent researcher, educator, consultant, curator and director of the Research Collective for Decolonizing Fashion. She is the author of Moroccan Fashion: Design, Tradition and Modernity (London: Bloomsbury, 2014) and coeditor with Jennifer Craik of Modern Fashion Traditions: Negotiating Tradition and Modernity Through Fashion (London: Bloomsbury, 2016). She is also the guest co-editor with Toby Slade of the special issue of Fashion Theory on Decoloniality and Fashion (Vol 24(6) 2020). Her scholarship grows out of an effort to underwrite an ongoing critique concerning Eurocentric contemporary fashion from a decolonial perspective.
SOCIAL EQUITY ACTIVIST & DECOLONIAL MARKETING CONSULTANT
Shayna Goncalves has worked in the fashion and the creative industry doing business development for Slikour OnLife, head of marketing for FILA South Africa, creative direction for The Stylista, and she developed and taught the fashion syllabi for Oxbridge Academic Programs and LISOF (now named Stadio School of Design). Currently with her own marketing practice, she works closely with directors of conscious fair-trade companies to develop and implement a messaging & creative strategy that connects a business to it's employees, clients, customers and suppliers by communicating it's value with clarity, authenticity, and accuracy. Her practice also facilitates education reform for creative qualifications by advising academic institutions on transforming their curriculums to becoming industry relevant, and by working with businesses to create jobs for graduating students through experiential courses where graduating students & entry-mid tier level creatives learn professional outcomes/standards by working on client briefs.
FASHION DESIGNER & RESEARCHER
Pierre Antoine Vettorello is a fashion designer and researcher. He creates sculptural and statement silhouettes embodying militancy, hostility and poetry. He is questioning our own relation towards our sartorial history and how we create myths around ‘designers’ in Western societies imitating colonial patterns. Vettorello identifies how we perceive and extract inspiration from the African continent and how we globally create borders between what is fashion and what is not. He develops his research around re-editing garments sewn by erased non-white fashion creatives (1939-1966), returning ownership and exploring new narratives of Eurocentric fashion museums. He works and lives in Brussels.