OxDx: Jared Yazzie, Native Threads, and Creative Problem-Solving!

We’re back with another powerful segment featuring OxDx Clothing founder Jared Yazzie (Diné). 

In this continuation of our conversation, we dive even deeper into Indigenous creativity, fashion, and community-building. 

And creative problem-solving!

Storytelling Through Fashion, Part 2

In this Part 2 episode of Beyond Buckskin: Storytelling Through Fashion, we continue our conversation with mother and daughter Angela and Amari LaRocque of Bineshi Ikwewag — uniquely crafted Indigenous-inspired clothing, jewelry, accessories, and art made by a family of Anishinaabe artists. 

Storytelling Through Fashion with Bineshi Ikwewag

In this episode of Beyond Buckskin: Storytelling Through Fashion, we sit down with mother and daughter Angela and Amari LaRocque of Bineshi Ikwewag — uniquely crafted Indigenous inspired clothing, jewelry, accessories, & art made by a family of Anshinaabe artists. 

RETROSPECTRUM!: A Style Mixer

What would fashion history look like if Native American designers were consistently represented in mainstream style magazines, department stores and fashion shows?

How would a Hopi designer take 1960s Mod fashion to the next level? How would a Lakota designer add authenticity to '70s hippy style? How would a Navajo designer contribute to Pin-up fashion? And how would a Northwest Coast Haida designer enrich techno culture? What about a Mohawk hip-hop fly-girl stylist? That would be fashion history, to the next level.

Visual Celebrations of #nativefashion

I think we're witnessing a really interesting time in history when Native cultures can be acceptably and excitingly worn on the body publicly.

This wasn't always the case.

Even up until recently, I recall people trying to visually downplay their cultural differences. Thank goodness for the democratization of fashion and the avant-garde campaigns of the 1980s-1990s with creative ads by brands like the United Colors of Benetton. In these revolutionary images, people of diverse backgrounds were represented alongside each other in celebratory ways as chic fashion statements.