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Fashion or ‘fashioning’, is, beyond its dominant perception as a global industry, a cultural practice. As such, it is to be approached from its entanglement with history, art and culture. This article presents an investigation into the 2022 fashion film Horizon Blues by Jeano Edwards for Wales Bonner and examines the creative space of a fashion collection based on artistic collaborations. Starting from the fabric, the film shows how history, meaning and experience are interwoven and connected to the body and sheds a different light on the relationship of art and fashion. Picking up aspects of the different narratives, cultural interrelations and historical dimensions at play within this space, it shows how creating from such a collective knowledge space changes the face of fashion and anchors it differently in space and time. The film is referring in form and content to the various meanings, concepts and maxims attached to Sankofa, an Adinkra symbol linking past and present in the prospect of a different future; and offers an alternative perspective on the ideas of coloniality and sustainability.