Decolonizing Fashion as Process

Abstract

The stylized fashion figure or is fundamental to the fashion design process. Highly regarded as a tool for design articulation and innovation, it is also an immensely popular creative art form, enjoying a recent renaissance on social media platforms. Most fashion institutions across the globe teach illustration as a foundation-level skill. Students absorb a strict set of rules dictated by the ten-head body proportion. This article explores the colonial implications of the stylized . The drawings challenge the genre by selectively abandoning and playing with the rules of fashion illustration in order to decolonize this design tool.

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2022-10-01
2024-03-29
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  1. Sandhu, Arti. ( 2022;), ‘ Mahila à la mode: The auntie-fit croqui. ’, International Journal of Fashion Studies, 9:2, pp. 39599, https://doi.org/10.1386/infs_00078_7
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Keyword(s): #OOTD; croqui; design pedagogy; fashion illustration; Madhubani folk art; outfit of the day; size inclusivity; South Asian auntie

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