Why Indigenous Beadwork Is My Idea of Luxury
by Christian Allaire
Excerpt from the original story, “Now, I would much rather spend my money on beadwork. It is a particularly time-consuming art form. Indigenous artists bead each earring, bag, or necklace by hand, a laborious process that demands loads of patience and skill. Where I once spent hours taking in designer collections on Style.com (now Vogue Runway), I now find myself up staying up way too late scrolling through beadwork accounts on Instagram, taking in every detail of a piece. (Isn’t that what the zoom-in feature is for, after all?) In doing so, I’ve discovered a wide range of talented beaders—badass ladies such as Jamie Okuma, Tania Larsson, and Molina Parker come to mind—who are creating pieces that combine traditional techniques and motifs with innovation.”
