Rethinking Fashion Globalization - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Sarah Cheang is Acting Head of the History of Design programme at the Royal College of Art, UK. Her research interests centre on transnational fashion, material culture and the body and she is the co-editor of Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion (Berg, 2008).

Erica de Greef is a curator, author, and co-founder of the African Fashion Research Institute (AFRI). Her work spans museums, creative platforms, educational institutions and grassroots projects. Her PhD in African Studies at the University of Cape Town, Sartorial Disruptions, explored the stasis within fashion collections and exhibitions at South African museums in post-apartheid democracy. She has also lectured and contributed to curriculum development and supervision in fashion institutions for many years. She co-edited Rethinking Fashion Globalization (2021), and published widely in books, articles, zines and online platforms. She is an editorial board member for the International Journal of Fashion Studies and Research Fellow with UNISA (2023-2026), and since 2020, co-convenes a monthly online Conversations in Decoloniality and Fashion.

Yoko Takagi is Professor and programme director of MA Global Fashion Concentration at Bunka Gakuen University, Tokyo. Focusing on transboundary aspects of fashion and textile from the end of the 19th century to present day, she has contributed to publications and exhibition curation. She hosts the Transboundary Fashion Seminar.