An Interview with River Dean

Colonialism is based on the logic of conquest, the fantasy of greatness and domination… including over humans. I write the “including over humans” adjoiner self-consciously, as each time I read the sentence back it trips me up and makes me think about where our focus tends to gravitate. Certainly, as we seek to broaden the intellectual canon of fashion scholarship with a wider range of perspectives, like those examined within this Special Issue, the more-than-human world is part of it. After all, nature, while often celebrated within fashion as visual inspiration, is another “other.”