The fashion scholar shares her hopes for her new online platform, the Fashion and Race Database.
Author:Dhani MauPublish date:Jul 16, 2020Kimberly Jenkins has made waves in the fashion education sphere for shedding necessary light on the role race has historically played in fashion.
"I thought, with all these sources that I've amassed and things I've kind of been looking through, I wanted to create this creative project that would lay out everything visually and categorically in terms of how I was learning and understanding fashion and race," she tells me over the phone. I know the database began as an educational syllabus. Why did you want to expand it and make it accessible to everyone?
When I enrolled in the Parsons Fashion Studies program back in 2011, my dream and my hope for my future career was to become well-known for what I do. I wanted to be this public educator, this public-facing intellectual, so I just wanted things to be accessible. In academia — depending on what corners of academia you're in — there's this priority to make things private. Writing is oftentimes inaccessible. Things are written in a very dense way.
And when it comes to decolonizing, it's about reflecting on how the impact, the legacy of colonialism has shaped and influenced what we see as beautiful. 'Good' design when it comes to aesthetics. What real beauty looks like. Language, also.
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