The intricate work of Indigenous artists from the far north represents a world of fashion « connected to our landscapes and our way of being. »
On the runways of fashion meccas like New York, intricately crafted Indigenous patterns are a look like no other. And they come from a world like no other, thousands of miles away, where bitter winter winds blow across the tundra and communities follow traditions that date millennia.
As Alaska Native designers send more of their work down runways, Jackinsky-Sethi wants it to be viewed through an Indigenous, not Western, lens. Their creations, she says, relate “to all aspects of who we are and how we exist in the world.”Merna Lomack Wharton, 52, in Anchorage She began her first parka, made from rabbit skin and lined with cloth, in November 2004. It took about four months. “You have to keep your family warm. So, my goal was to make a parka for my daughter and to remind her that she is also Yup’ik.”
Self-taught, this former teacher has made hundreds of headdresses, most for women to wear during Yuraq, highly stylized Yup’ik dancing. “I see an opportunity to continue the legacy that my grandmothers used to create,” he says. Headdresses are rarely seen on Yup’ik men these days; according to Oscar, the custom disappeared after Western culture forced assimilation. Still, he has created a few, integrating reindeer fur, the beards of caribous and eagle feathers.
“I want Indigenous women to wear my pieces,” she says. “It is a beautiful sight to see Native people in the spotlight embracing their culture.”
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