Fashion and Decoloniality: Colonialism, Clothing and Binarism

Abstract

We understand that the concept fashion composes, in its historical-sociological spectrum, categories created within the "coloniality of power. At one time, the notion of fashion associates intellectual, productive, cultural and space-time capabilities. Thus, we ask if there is colonialism in the first Brazilian sociological publications that addressed fashion, notably in Gilberto Freyre and Gilda de Mello e Souza. The goal of this work is to question how the various approaches on clothing, developed from the epistemology of the North axis, legitimize and produce a reading that hierarchizes the relations of clothing, manners and fashion, reproducing and disseminating the conception that the dressing of non-white societies is plastered or inferior. Thus, to verify the dynamics and gaps of silencing and erasure that the project of modernity pushed as a universal practice, we methodologically propose the articulation of the decolonial aesthesis movement to verify how modernity performed the historical control in partnership with the colonial project that displaced and excluded and has resulted in the hijacking of reality and the need to highlight what was expelled from the historical materiality and aesthetics of fashion.