EDITORS’ LETTER

Welcome to the sixth issue!

This issue is dedicated to fashion activism, social justice, and innovation in fashion research and practices. The articles and reviews in this issue range from activists’ accounts of reforming and transforming fashion, to researchers’ investigations of innovating fashion studies and fashion research, including critique of academic work that perpetuates the continued existence of Eurocentric, traditional, and colonial fashion research paradigms that we work to decolonize.

This issue was also inspired by the work of the ground-breaking researcher-activist Sandra Niessen, who has mobilized her research on decoloniality, anthropology, and decentering fashion to become a full-time climate justice activist in her retirement. Her creativity, justice-focused fieldwork, and paradigm-shifting research and writing has inspired all of us to be better researchers, thinkers, makers, and citizens.

The Critical Pulse will continue to look at themes concerning the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We will continue to address sustainability and social justice, as well as ethics, inclusivity, diversity, intersectional feminism, and decoloniality because we want to see a transformation in the fashion system and fashion education.

We welcome contributions, such as reviews of books, films, current events, and other relevant topics. Through studying the discourse of design, fashion, and economics, we want to empower and amplify marginalized voices of creatives and young professionals. We only publish well-researched, and well-analyzed information. We hope that our different views give you an objective and critical perspective of the fashion industry, creating a desire to push views, traditions, and conditions forward.

We hope you enjoy this issue and that you join us in disrupting the current fashion practices.

Sincerely, the editorial team of The Critical Pulse

Robin Chantree, Johnathan Clancy, Tenna Johanning Hjelm Mette Kirk, Jess Montgomery, Caroline Serafina Muscato, Mia Petersen, Sandra Rosenkranz Jäger, Emilie Thomsen, Bridgit Trott, Bjørn Utoft Sørensen

Contributions by Sandra Niessen, Sara Arnold, Jasmine Chavez Helm, Jess Montgomery, Tenna Johanning Hjelm, Caroline Serafina Muscato, Alexandre Prince, Natálie Vencovská, Sabrina Saberhagen, and Sandra Jäger.

Mentored and inspired by Dr. Kat Sark

6 DEFINING DEFASHION

14 TUNU: A CLOTH OF NECESSITY, SPIRITUALITY & RESISTANCE

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MAKE THE LABEL COUNT: IS EU'S UPCOMING LABELING SCHEME FOR FASHION & TEXTILE PRODUCTS GREENWASHING IN THE MAKING?

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BOOK REVIEW OF DAVID BOLLIER THE COMMONER’S CATALOG FOR CHANGEMAKING.

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THE FIRST TO BE RESPONSIBLE

REVIEW OF MARIE RIEGELS MELCHIOR’S GUEST LECTURE: FASHION IN DENMARK THROUGH 400 YEARS 30