Lecture on Native Fashion at the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, NM
If you happen to be in the Santa Fe region in mid-January, I will be giving a presentation at the School for Advanced Research on Native high fashion. See below for details, or click here.
Native Designers of High Fashion: Expressing Identity, Creativity, and Tradition in Contemporary Clothing Design
By Jessica R. Metcalfe, Postdoctoral Diversity Fellow, Office for Equity and Inclusion, Department of Anthropology and Native Studies, University of New Mexico
Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm
Native American traditional art forms have been reincarnated by contemporary Native designers and placed on human bodies in the form of haute couture. This presentation traces the history of Native fashion, from Lloyd Kiva New (Cherokee) through Wendy Ponca (Osage) and Virgil Ortiz (Cochiti). Also explored are concepts of beauty and the issue of cultural misappropriation.
