Beyond ‘Third World’ Fashion
Replace vague geography with precise research: a field guide to place, people, power, credit, and contemporary design.
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Research and working methods for a more precise fashion imagination.
Cultural Appreciation vs. Appropriation in Fashion
A ten-point working method for moving from visual reference to informed, credited, and mutually beneficial design.
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Haiti Is Not a Mood Board
Haitian design is contemporary, diasporic, materially inventive, and too complex to be reduced to tropical color or crisis imagery.
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Read the Cloth Before You Use It
Four textile terms are routinely collapsed into ‘ethnic print.’ Their materials, techniques, histories, and meanings tell very different stories.
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The Hands Behind the Look
A garment’s story is also a chain of wages, deadlines, chemicals, water, transport, risk, and skilled decisions—most of which remain outside the frame.
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Build a Better Fashion Mood Board
Turn a collage of attractive images into a research tool with a clear question, source trail, material analysis, and accountable design decisions.
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