Native/American Fashion: Inspiration, Appropriation and Cultural Identity - Creative Collaborations

Summary: Native/American Fashion: Inspiration, Appropriation, and Cultural Identity explores fashion as a creative endeavor and an expression of cultural identity, the history of Native fashion, issues of problematic cultural appropriation in the field, and examples of creative collaborations and best practices between Native designers and fashion brands. In this segment, Eileen Karp of the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, gives a short introduction to the third panel of the day, Creative Collaborations, which she is moderating.