These designs in avatar The Last Air bander were inspired by innuit Art the costume designer I spoke to said the clothes and accessories worn by the water tribes in the show take inspiration from Inu culture and she collaborated with Inu and Indigenous creatives from across Canada and Alaska
The pieces that I created were inspired by my culture our geometric fur designs that you see on our historical ancestral clothing and then of course being inspired by the Arctic Ocean the waves and the movement and the jaggedness of the ice it was really really intriguing
To learn from her all the details of what goes into a parka each takes about 48 hours to se two people working on it we probably built close to 60 to 70 parkas in total we just wanted to make sure that it was accurate and respectful
The show was based on the cartoon from 2005 which reached millions of fans for some like this artist it became more than just a show it’s very close to my heart I was shaking I was peering up I was just over the moon to be able to see
My work on a show that I grew up loving although there are many visual references from Inu culture the Inu characters in the show are played by non-inuit actors the show has been renewed for two more seasons this is a great opportunity to show our youth that
They can really do anything they set their mind to so we’ve come a really long way in just a few short generations to now seeing my work on a huge production I think it’s a huge step in the right direction
Vancouver-based costume designer Farnaz Khaki-Sadigh collaborated with Inuit artists to create cultural pieces for Avatar: The Last Airbender.
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