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Ross River designer’s designs featured at Milan Fashion Week in Italy

Wednesday, 6 March 2024 12:14

By Panebi Wilson

Natasha Peter (Submitted by Natasha Peter)

The event organizers had seen her work on social media and got in touch to invite her to Milan. 

Ross River fashion designer’s Kaska Dena designs were featured at Milan Fashion Week in Italy. 

The Indigenous fashion designer Natasha Peter, originally from the small community of Ross River, Yukon, saw a collection of her work featured this week on the runway at the high-profile Milan Fashion Week. 

According to Peter, she said the event organizers had seen her work on social media and got in touch to invite her to Milan. 
While contemplating and second guessing it as a prank, she showed it to a few of her trusted sources and even looked them up. Her findings reveled they were real, she said. 

Peter said the event organizers were impressed by how her jewelry and clothing designs reflect and celebrate her Kaska Dena heritage. She named the collection in Milan after the Dena name given to her grandmother, Tootsie Charlie, Gu'Kine of the North.

For Peter, Milan Fashion Week was an opportunity to not only showcase her own work and business, but also to share the spotlight with others. 
She travelled to Italy with three Kaska models from Yukon who would wear her creations on the catwalk. Peter also collaborated with two Kaska elders "Dennis Shorty, and Penny Louie," whose art was included as part of her show. 

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