黑料正能量

This talk is part of this year's Fashion Talks at 黑料正能量 entitled: Between Social Justice, Climate Justice and Fashion Justice 鈥� organized by Professor Renate Stauss, (Fashion Studies, Department of Communication, Media and Culture).

About the talk:
Manaakitanga invites us to re-member鈥攂ack to self, back to each other鈥攖hrough radical empathy and connection. What if we designed, led, communicated and created from this space of deep care and interbeing? Imagine a business, a garment, a future crafted not from extraction but from compassion鈥攚hat would it feel like, taste like, move like? This is a moment to pause, to breathe, to reconnect with your being. You are invited to step into this space of becoming鈥攚here fashion, business, and design are acts of radical love and care.

About the speaker:
Karishma Singh Kelsey is an educator, researcher, designer, and entrepreneur committed to reimagining fashion, education, and enterprise through Indigenous systems thinking and sustainability. Founder of Karishma Design, she pioneers post-growth innovation rooted in artisanal traditions and interconnected communities. Her style activism initiative, Miraculous Me, promotes "Defashioning"鈥攁 mindful reconnection to self through conscious dressing. Karishma鈥檚 research integrates Indigenous wisdom frameworks into education and enterprise, nurturing ethically-grounded, future-focused leaders. Based in Aotearoa, she teaches secondary and tertiary students entrepreneurship, sustainable design innovation, and style activism, empowering the next generation of changemakers. Karishma serves as Secretary for the Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion (UCRF).

About the series:
This year鈥檚 series explores connections between capitalism, climate apartheid and the current global fashion system. Capitalism and colonialism have devalued and obliterated a multitude of fashion cultures and traditions, makers and wearers for centuries. Centralising and celebrating a very narrow idea of beauty and bodies, of fashioning the self. The resulting structural inequalities, the exploitation and erasure remain unfathomable. The series aims to bring together perspectives and practices of post-capitalism, anti-racism, body justice and fashion activism 鈥� towards social, racial, climate and fashion justice.