Violence manifests in a cut of cloth that wraps around the bodies, culture and identities impacted by a colonial past. AFRI collective confront the role of fashion as a means of both repression and resistance. Interrogating the homogenising force of western fashion in erasing identities and squeezing culture, AFRI claim a space to hold the micronarratives, absent memories and nuances of loss that embed a colonial history. Their work demands that the continued reverberation of colonial violence is acknowledged in its splintered and splintering forms. The process of cutting cloth emphasises the difficulty of sense-making within a linear narrative. Through the dismembering of identities, a loss is incurred. While remembering violent actions that induced such absence, the work also insists on finding ways to acknowledge, question and imagine that which is lost to memory as a vital component in the process of healing.