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Announcement RChD: Creación y Pensamiento Vol. 9, Nº 17| NOV 2024 | Open Topic. Deadline for full manuscript submission: July 31, 2024.
Native Fashion: a Depatriarchalising View
Authors
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Josefina Vidal
King's College London, Londres, Reino Unido
https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2651-3592
Abstract
Native Fashion is a trend in Chilean fashion developed between 1968 and 1973, where the work of five creators of clothing and textile prints is identified: Nelly Alarcón, Enrique Concha, Marco Correa, María Inés Solimano, and Alejandro Stuven. This design trend has been recognized as a movement that tried to oppose European references, rescuing «what is unique» to the country and Latin America. This text establishes a critical view of this phenomenon from a feminist theory, particularly from the postulates of Donna Haraway, Ochy Curiel, María Galindo, and Rossi Braidotti. This article analyzes the work of Enrique Concha, who organized in 1972 the exhibition «A Hidden Chile: Campaign of Indigenous Chilean Fashion and Costumes» at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, where he exhibited his prints «inspired by» in the Diaguita and Rapanui culture. This critical review argues how this exhibition is a cultural appropriation directed by Enrique Concha, which has been considered until today as a positive exercise justifying it as an emancipation from the metropolis.
