Colombian Fashionistas Do Native American Style –

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Style, Trendspotting Colombian Fashionistas Do Native American Style By Alice Pfeiffer Monday,louboutin shoes, Aug 2,louboutin mary janes, 2010 / 10:00 AM GMT -5
MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA–From Topshop to Bless to Pamela Love–Native American prints and their similar South American styles have recently flourished in fashion–or rather, the Western fantasy of the tradition.
For example, I chatted to a Medellin-based fashion student who looked dead hip in a colorful canvas “Inca-style” backback, as she put it, matched with a black and white jacket in traditional Latin American prints. While the former was bought in a village near Bogota, the latter was purchased at…Forever 21. And ironically,jimmy choo pumps sale, she described it as “American style”!