Inclusiveness in Fashion

  How might a broader, more racially inclusive understanding of fashion theory and criticism inflect some of the field’s underlying assumptions like identity, communication and art and redress some of its blind spots? How might we address problems of minority and black representation within the fashion industry, both in theoretical and practical terms? In what ways do the Byrd, Summers, Pham and Miller articles call upon readers to challenge narrow understandings of fashion and race?