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KLCC s Brian Bull reports on a Puyallup Indian and Eugene native whose dress is featured in the upcoming issue of InStyle, worn by historic U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland.
Korina Emmerich is a Puyallup Indian who grew up learning art and design in Eugene. She now lives in Brooklyn, managing the business she founded, EMME Studio. Emmerich was delighted that a dress she created is being worn by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on the upcoming cover of
“Indigenous designers are being spotlighted right now and have this incredible opportunity to really have our own voice instead of having this appropriation voice that was previously represented in fashion in the past. Emmerich told KLCC.
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An edited and condensed portion of a interview between KLCC s Brian Bull and EMME Studio founder and designer Korina Emmerich, about her work in the fashion industry and recent exposure creating a dress worn by U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland for InStyle magazine.
Emmerich: (
laughs) Oh, I have hoped since I was really young that this day would come, that I would be able to be on the cover of a magazine, and my work would be on the cover. And it’s just such an honor, especially to have somebody so game-changing as Secretary Haaland to be wearing one of my pieces. I did not know that it was going to be on the cover, the items were pulled by the stylists. I knew it was going to be for
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