I read about the fashion of the Native Americans and the fashion controversy with the 2015 New York Fashion Show. The controversy was between the designer Bethany Yellowtail and London established company called KTZ. Quoted from BBC by Bethany Yellowtail wrote "The dress as stated on my website embodies a Crow design from my great great grandmother...funny I didn't realize @ktz_official knew the Yellowtails or the Crow people,". Also quoted from BBC said, “[…] but what happens when you blatantly take cultural valuable designs from Indigenous people?[…]”. Personally I think this is not only disrespectful to the designer, Bethany Yellowtail, but also the Native Americans and her family who originated the style. The fact that this dress had been produced the year before and was released the next year in the 2015 Fashion Show frustrates me. Stealing ideas and designs from one designer an putting it toward your outfit has been done before. But when it has to do with indigenous peoples designs that have been passed down from generations it is not so easy. Picture 1 shows Bethany's designs from 2014 and KTZ's dress "that they created". In image 2 it shows the influenced designs and geometric shapes that influenced Bethany Yellowtail's dress and design she created. In my opinion even if you do get caught copying another designers design it still is not fair and right to that designer that spent the time on it, and if they had special significance to it.
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