Inuit Tuilli or Woman’s Inner Parka, ca. 1925, Nunavut, Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian This finely crafted and elaborately beaded Inuit tuilli, or woman’s inner parka, was made ...
Inuit invented the first parkas. With its new collection, Canada Goose highlights the work of Inuit seamstresses keeping their heritage alive. Martha Munick, an Inuit seamstress, just designed a coat ...
Canada Goose has announced a call for Inuit designers to design parkas that will be sold through the retailer. The initiative is being run through a partnership with Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, a ...
Canada Goose partnered with Inuit seamstresses to create a one-of-a-kind parka collection dubbed Project Atigi. Named after the Inuit word for parka, this social entrepreneurship project showcases the ...
Inuit women rank among the most innovative and skilled craftspeople in the world, and this exhibition shows why. The highlight is a display of three stunning beaded amautiit that have recently been ...
When she was a little girl growing up in Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, Jennifer Munick had a very important job to do while her grandmother was sewing. She would crawl on the floor to pick up any stray beads ...
Good news: the parka trend is transcending the season with its compelling practicality, and enduring the rest of the winter will be easy with this warm and stylish outerwear. Originally made and worn ...
This May the National Museum of the American Indian was privileged to host four remarkable Inuit women from Nunavut who were in Washington as guests of the Embassy of Canada to attend the opening of ...
Canada Goose is embracing its heritage. The Toronto-based outerwear brand has launched a social entrepreneurship program called Project Atigi, that celebrates the craftsmanship of the indigenous Inuit ...
LONDON, Feb 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One of the fashion's most enduring trends is to draw inspiration from other cultures' traditional arts and crafts. But the extent to which fashion houses ...