Gabriela Hearst Adds Navajo Nation Women to Spring 2022 Artistic Artisans Orchestra

Gabriela Hearst Adds Navajo Nation Women to Spring 2022 Artistic Artisans Orchestra AOC Fashion

Gabriela Hearst showed her spring 2022 collection Thursday in New York, a deeply personal mix of arty details; sustainable materials, and multiple handcrafted-collabs from the Americas.

In the crowd were Naiomi Glasses and TahNibaa Naataanii members of the Navajo Nation. The two women collaborated with Hearst on the woven swatches that were inset into the bodice of a sleeveless dress and the shoulders of a trench.

Glasses organized the arrangement (she’s a graduate of the Creative Futures Collective, which is dedicated to empowering creatives from disenfranchised communities). Glasses is also gaining major notoriety as a skateboarder, creating her own skatepark in Arizona. Teen Vogue did an exciting profile of Naiomi in March.

Naataanii, who is a sheepherder and a weaver, did the hand work, with the help of her mother and daughter.

Ashley Callingbull Covers Fashion Canada September 2021, Talking Indigenous Peoples

Ashley Callingbull Covers Fashion Canada September 2021, Talking Indigenous Peoples AOC Fashion

Ashley Callingbull, Indigenous model, pageant queen, and motivational speaker from Enoch Cree Nation in Alberta, covers the September 2021 issue of Fashion Magazine Canada. The activist wears a dress from Native American visual artist and California fashion designer Jamie Okuma on the cover, styled by Lucrezia Mancini.