Model Kenzi Osgood wears a creation by Jackie Qatalina Schaeffer, an Inupiaq designer from Kotzebue, at the Far North Fashion Show at the Anchorage Museum on April 11, 2024. (Kerry Tasker photo)
The Anchorage Museum atrium transformed into a catwalk for the 2024 Far North Fashion show Thursday night.
The show featured eight Alaska Native designers who created nearly 40 looks for the event. Walking to a playlist of music drawn from around the circumpolar north, some models wore traditional garments while others showed off looks that featured fur, skins and feathers on gowns and streetwear. Occasionally, a model broke into a traditional Alaska Native dance move as the crowd of about 650 people cheered their approval.
This is the second year fashion show coordinator Trina Landlord has organized the event. She said when she was 13, she and her best friend would dream about Alaska Native fashion on runways.
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“We didn’t ever see anyone who looked like us who were designers or models,” Landlord said. “Fast forward to now, and this is my fifth fashion show I’ve done featuring Alaska Native designers. Some have shown at Toronto fashion week.”
The theme of this year’s fashion show — the “Black and White Raven Collection” — appeared throughout the night, from models’ makeup and hair to the feathered capelets and adornments of many looks.
The raven theme was inspired by the magical, transformative creatures that appear in the stories and songs of many Alaska Native cultures, Landlord said. But like the fashion show itself, it’s also a take on modern-day life — and 2024′s buzziest local celebrity.
“With the new paparazzi following the white raven around — keeping that in mind, it’s so new and unusual and unique,” Landlord said.
The show was presented by Arctic Encounter, a symposium of events centered on Arctic policy, business and culture that took place Wednesday through Friday in downtown Anchorage.
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Model Deenaalee Hodgdon wears Inupiaq designer Jackie Qatalina Schaeffer featuring accessories by Tlingit artist Jennifer Younger at the Far North Fashion Show at the Anchorage Museum on April 11, 2024. (Kerry Tasker photo)
Amiah Xootsk Johnson wears a seal skin vest by Jeremiah James and a white raven mask by Jerry Laktonen during the Far North Fashion Show on April 11, 2024, at the Anchorage Museum. (Alena Naiden / ADN)
Inupiaq model Robin Thompson wears Unangax designer Mary Kelsay at the Far North Fashion Show at the Anchorage Museum on April 11, 2024. (Kerry Tasker photo)
Unangax model Erin Messmer wears a design by Unangax designer Mary Kelsay at the Far North Fashion Show at the Anchorage Museum on April 11, 2024. (Kerry Tasker photo)
Aaron Tolen models for designer Jeremiah James at the Far North Fashion Show at the Anchorage Museum on April 11, 2024. (Kerry Tasker photo)
Model Samuel Sivulaq Mecham wears Merna Lomack Wharton’s design during the Far North Fashion Show on April 12, 2024, at the Anchorage Museum. (Alena Naiden / ADN)
Unangax model Haliehana Stepetin wears Inupiaq designer Jackie Qatalina Schaeffer at the Far North Fashion Show at the Anchorage Museum on April 11, 2024. (Kerry Tasker photo)
Models Deenaalee Hodgdon, Keegan Richards, Ryan Richards and Kenzi Osgood wear designs by Jackie Qatalina Schaeffer, an Inupiaq designer from Kotzebue, at the Far North Fashion Show at the Anchorage Museum on April 11, 2024. (Kerry Tasker photo)
Yup’ik model Jenay Mike models for Tlingit designer Reine Pavlik of Yakutat at the Far North Fashion Show at the Anchorage Museum on April 11, 2024. (Kerry Tasker photo)
Nov 13 (Reuters) – The Trump administration on Thursday finalized its rollback of Biden-era limits on oil and gas drilling in an Alaska area that is the nation’s largest tract of undisturbed public land.
The move is consistent with President Donald Trump’s goal to reduce restrictions on domestic oil and gas development, particularly in resource-rich Alaska.
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Biden’s 2024 rule had prohibited oil and gas leasing on 10.6 million acres (4.3 million hectares) of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, while limiting development on more than 2 million additional acres.
“By rescinding the 2024 rule, we are following the direction set by President Trump to unlock Alaska’s energy potential, create jobs for North Slope communities and strengthen American energy security,” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said in a statement. “This action restores common-sense management and ensures responsible development benefits for both Alaska and the nation.”
An Alaska Native group, Voice of the Arctic Inupiat, said in a statement that it supported the rollback because drilling infrastructure contributes meaningfully to the region’s tax revenues and supports services like healthcare and education.
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A 24-year federal employee who faced having his Anchorage apartment lease terminated says the record government shutdown is creating a financial crisis for essential workers nationwide, particularly in states such as Alaska where local regulations show virtually no eviction protections exist.
The tails of Alaska Airlines, left, and Hawaiian Airlines aircraft are seen at the gates at Kahului International Airport, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023, in Kahului, Hawaii.
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My wife and I fly to and from Los Angeles at least twice a year. We were shocked by the way the Alaska and Hawaiian airlines merger is going.
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We booked our flight on Hawaiian Airlines, but our whole passenger list was switched to Alaska at the LAX terminal. When we got to the gate we were assigned different seats. A Boeing 737-Max airplane with the bad reputation for crashes is what we flew.
One of your readers was complaining about no free headphones on Hawaiian (“Hawaiian flight nudges customers to Alaska,” Star-Advertiser, Letters, Nov. 6). How about no video screens at the seats? If you didn’t have a device, you sat in the plane with nothing to do, not even a “Hana Hou!” magazine to read. Food was for sale only.
Local flyers beware. Your next flight on “Hawaiian” Airbus airplanes might be switched to Alaska’s Boeing fleet. Bring your Bento lunch and a good book.
John and Rita Shockley
Makakilo
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