Inuit designers launch new line of parkas for Canada Goose

Canada Goose has launched a new collection of Inuit-made parkas. 

The collection called Atigi 2.0 has 90 parkas done by 18 seamstresses who all live in Inuit Nunangat — Inuit regions of N.W.T., Nunavut, Quebec to Newfoundland and Labrador. Last year, Canada Goose launched plan Atigi with 14 strange parkas.

The parkas from Atigi 2.0 were shown publicly for a initial time during a media launch in New York Thursday. 

“It’s unbelievable,” pronounced Stephanie Pitseolak, one of a designers who lives in Iqaluit. “I can’t trust my parka is there right now.” 

New York isn’t a usually general city her parka will be on display; subsequent week it will be creation a approach to France where a collection will be on arrangement during a Canada Goose store in Paris.

Pitseolak pronounced a knowledge was exhausting. Canada Goose sends a seamstresses a box of materials to use for their designs. Things like fur, vale fill insulation, zippers and Canada Goose commanders and rags with a logo. They had a month to make 5 matching parkas any in a opposite size. 

Even Pitseolak was struggling. She pronounced she couldn’t give adult and felt like her late grandmother was running her while she sewed. 

“I wanted people to know it’s possible, even if you’re unequivocally busy, even if we have kids, even if you’re working,” pronounced Pitseolak. 

“I’m blissful we did it and I’m happy for myself.” 

The parkas will be on sale during a Canada Goose website for $2,500 each. The deduction will go to Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK), a inhabitant classification that advocates for a rights and interests of Inuit in Canada.  

Canada Goose donated scarcely $80,000 to ITK from a sales of final year’s Atigi parkas, according to ITK. Inuit land claims organizations for a 4 Inuit regions — Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated, Makivik Corporation, and Nunatsiavut Government any perceived $20,000.  

“We have large skeleton and a large prophesy from plan Atigi,” pronounced Gavin Thompson, vice-president of corporate citizenship for Canada Goose. “We are literally only removing started.” 

Thompson pronounced they wish to grow a plan though wouldn’t exhibit sum of what that looks like. 

“We are only so unapproachable of this collection,” pronounced Thompson. “We are vehement to put it on a platforms so we can unequivocally showcase these designers and their parkas to a world.”

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