About the Author

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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 Director and Co-Founder of the African Fashion Research Institute. She leads the Decolonial Fashion hub in Africa for the Research Collective for Decolonising Fashion, and has published in numerous journals and edited collections. She has also lectured widely in the field of fashion curation and fashion pedagogy in South Africa. 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.