Serkan Delice

Biography

My research expertise is in the political economy of fashion, with a focus on how shifts and crises within capitalism shape the global fashion industry. Drawing on anti-colonial, dependency, and world-systems theories, I critically analyse issues of labour exploitation and cultural appropriation. I also explore pathways towards reparations and wealth redistribution that support communities in sustaining their own fashion systems.

My latest research is a book chapter exploring how Frantz Fanon’s vision of planetary decolonisation can inform contemporary efforts to confront systemic racial inequalities in the global fashion industry (published in Thinking Through Fashion: A Guide to Key Theorists [London: Bloomsbury, 2025]). Prior to this, I co-edited Fashion’s Transnational Inequalities (London: Routledge, 2024), a volume that examines how transnational capitalism generates inequalities within and across national borders, and how these inequalities can be overcome through transnational collective action and solidarity.

My current research focuses on protecting the fashion and dress heritage of communities affected by displacement and persecution, particularly Armenian, Palestinian, and Kurdish communities and their diasporas in the UK. The first output of this research is a chapter titled ‘Fashion, Capitalism and the Difficulty of Reparations’ (published in Fashion in Theory: Historicisation, Practice and Methodologies [Manchester University Press, 2025]). I am also co-editing a book titled Fashion, Postcapitalism, and the Politics of Hope (currently under review by Manchester University Press; expected publication in 2026).

As a Course Leader, I coordinate the delivery of Cultural and Historical Studies units within the Fashion Business School at LCF. I teach at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and oversee 6 ongoing PhD projects, serving as Director of Studies/First Supervisor for three and Second Supervisor for the remaining three.

I also co-lead the LCF Transnational Fashion Network (TFN), the world’s first research body dedicated to investigating how fashion is produced and engaged with across and beyond national borders.


I welcome PhD applicants interested in examining the relationship between fashion and (post)capitalism, as well as topics such as fashion’s inequalities, labour practices, cultural appropriation, anti-racism, decolonisation, delinking, planetary thinking, heritage preservation, reparations, and fashion and 'wellbeing'.