Redressing Fashion History: Pelisse initiates a series of garments that reinterpret historical silhouettes from an Afrocentric perspective. This design scholarship is a powerful tool to reclaim Black identity, power, and presence through creative expression and historical research. The aim is to construct or stitch new narratives and visualize sartorial histories by redressing the Black woman in various interpreted historical silhouettes with Afrocentric textile designs, prompting a consideration of the absence of Black women in the dominant fashion history narrative.

This creative works has been submitted and accepted at the professional level for the International Textile and Apparel Association Conference. It will be showcased in Long Beach, California, in November 2024.

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