Now streaming on Netflix: Inuvialuit costume designs

 By Aastha Sethi  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Released last week, Avatar: The Last Airbender, the eight-episode series is a live-action adaptation of an animated show that aired from 2005 to 2008. The plot includes four nations, Earth Kingdom, Water Tribe, Fire Nation and Air Nomads, that represent the elements. The Water Tribe takes inspiration from Arctic cultures. The show’s lead costume designer, Farnaz Khaki-Sadigh, commissioned nine Indigenous designers from northern Canada and Alaska. Three Inuvialuit designers- Christina King, Donna Wolki and Agnes Firth, worked on parkas and mitts that form part of broader costumes designed by Khaki-Sadigh for episodes one, seven and eight. Watch for the end result in outfits worn by the Southern and Northern Water Tribes in those episodes. Other Indigenous designers that contributed to the project are…

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