A Gathering
Title : Hot Girl Theory: Fashion Edition
Location: Youtube live (the internet)
Date: Sat. April 17th, 2021 at 6:30pm EST
Participants: Maria Clara Otani, Bhavani Srinivas, Sharon Musa, and Arianne Rowe, at least 2 other live viewers, several thousand listeners on WPRB 103.3FM
Hot Girl Theory is a collective started by MC Otani and Sharon Musa in May 2020.
The HGT podcast seeks to have open and accessible conversations about theory on de-colonization, anti-capitalism, and world building.
The topic of this episode was fashion, particularly the global political economy of fashion and how it translates into the aesthetics, trends, and everyday design and styling decisions that we make.
Resources
Monopsony Capitalism: Power and Production in the Twilight of the Sweatshop Age by Ashok Kumar
Listen to an interview with the author by Sina Rahmani here
The Production of African Wax Cloth in a Neoliberal Global Market by Christine Delhaye
Check out Vlisco's IG
A Brief History of Postcolonial African Fashion by Helen Jennings
Image: Chris Seydou couture
Kwame Nkrumah’s Suits: Sartorial Politics in Ghana at Independence
by Abena Dove Osseo-Asare
Watch Nkrumah's UN Speech
Another Story by Burna Boy
