Fashion designers observe trends and craft the initial clothing or accessories. They survey trends to make adjustments to the prototypes of their new design. Finally, the end product is then marketed to retailers.

When we seek for a new trend in fashion, nobody knows this better than Indigenous and creative fashion designers whose hand-burnished leatherwork, fashion houses have imitated unique prints and beaded appliques for centuries. The designer’s collection ranges from jewelry to ready-to-wear.
The big misconception about Indigenous fashion designers is that all designs look the same, but that’s not true. They find inspiration from their heritage, traditionally essential elements such as animals or else.

Indigenous fashion is finally gaining some ground in the world, the main factor that impacts on the trend of Indigenous fashion is social media where fashion designers can showcase their skills and abilities, promote their unique styles and indigenously made products.

Concerns related to Indigenous Fashion:
If we define fashion, it is a phenomenon identified with time: a popular expression followed in a specific time and setting. This likewise influences the impression of what is and ought to be made more sustainable.

The following are the temporal concerns considered for fashion.

1. Fast Fashion:
The continuity of the new products into the market and what is becoming trendy is known as fast fashion. The term has come to signify modest, accessible, and on-trend garments sourced through worldwide creation chains and sold through chains, for example, H&M, Zara, Forever21, and so on.

However, fast fashion consumption is also becoming a problem to society when it grows on a massive scale as fast conspicuous consumption remained reserve to the rich and not reaching public attention.

2. Slow Fashion:
It is an alternative approach toward fast fashion and based on the slow food movement’s principles. It consists of durable products, traditional production concepts that strive to be season-less and remain for a longer period.

The consumer’s behavior is also impacting on slow fashion. Social status and environmental implications take into account their purchases, and it is strongly emotionally driven.

Principles for non-appropriating behavior
To avoid cultural appropriation trap Indigenous fashion designers work within a legal framework by following these principles:

1. Understanding traditional cultural expressions.
2. Respectful reinterpretation of traditional expressions.
3. Recognize the holders of cultural expressions.
4. Engagement with traditional holders through requests for a collaborative partnership.

Fashion designers create traditional clothes by keeping in mind the ethical manufacturing, to share and spread their culture and history.