num_pages: 144
description: Celebrating Native American design as an important force in the world of contemporary fashion this book features beautiful innovative and surprising looks from Native American artists. Mainstream American fashion has always been influenced by Native American design and that's because Native artists have always created exquisite clothing jewelry and accessories oftheir own. But it's only recently that Native designers themselves have started to break into the fashion industry in a big way. Current Native fashion is both wearable and beautiful and as this volume reveals increasingly fashion-forward. Divided into sections according to the designers' personal styles the book showcases the work of dozens of fashion designers fromVirgil Ortiz to Patricia Michaels to Jamie Okuma. The bookeven includes a few Native-influenced pieces by non-Nativedesigners like Isaac Mizrahi and Ralph Lauren. Native FashionNow designers have dressed presidents' wives and beenfinalists on Project Runway sold their work around the world and seen it acquired by museums and private collectors. Withexamples that range from haute couture to casual streetwear from evening gowns to beaded boots and from skateboards toumbrellas Native Fashion Now demonstrates the extraordinaryrange and talent of designers who honor important culturaltraditions while creating breathtaking of-the-moment fashion.
language: English
title: Native Fashion Now: North American Indian Style
publisher: Prestel