Francesco Mazzarella | Reader, Design for Social Change | London College of Fashion
Francesco Mazzarella
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Reader, Design for Social Change
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London College of Fashion
Fashion has often been an instrument of colonialism, exporting aesthetics, material cultures, erasing identities and traditional cultural practices. Decolonising fashion means challenging colonial legacies of oppression and exploitation, decentring the fashion system through critical research, cultural plurality, and communication of often untold stories, foregrounding indigenous knowledge, beyond Western logics.