Bella Haveman

Hawwaa Ibrahim designed her first outfit at age 12 using her mother’s old hijabs. She spent her teen years in Chicago and Mankato, learning to make clothes via YouTube DIY videos and sharing what she made on her fashion blog.

Celina Kane watched as actress Dominique Davray delivered the lines she’s heard numerous times.“Vous n’allez pas le garder sur la tête à mardi… non, jamais on ne porte un habits neuf le mardi.” [“You never wear new clothes on Tuesdays”]The line comes from one of her favorite French Nouvelle Vague films, Cléo de 5 à 7’ by Agnès Varda. What’s the clothing being referred to in the scene? Hats.Kane sees hats everywhere. Ever since her first millinery class with Emily Moe during her s...

From Chicago, to New York City, to Minneapolis, Hawwaa Ibrahim has been all about designing clothes and running a successful fashion business.

I get it, we all cringe when recollecting our elementary school moments. We thought we knew so much, we thought our random pattern combos worked so well and we were ready to take on the world with slap bracelets on our wrists and BoxTops in our pockets. It truly was a simpler time in our lives. Here are some of our better grade school fashion moments. Maybe one day we can bring these back out into the wild....

The drum beats pound, matching the energy within the room as Ali Olanda Olivia walks in, her bare feet making contact with the cold concrete floor. The dancers make a circle around three wooden drums, the drummers striking them with wooden rods. Each dancer rocks to the beat, moving from foot to foot and jumping with synchronized precision. Olanda Olivia wraps her wrists, waist and head with red fabric, and jumps in, matching each movement with practiced ease. Mexica Aztec Danza happens every Tu

From tradition to the runway, trailblazer Delina White celebrates her Native culture through fashion. ‘I’m living my dream’ Delina White stood behind a standing rack of clothing, sifting through her designs for the night as anticipation swirled in the air backstage at Quincy Hall event venue in Northeast Minneapolis. Models slipped into their Victorian gothic-themed designs while makeup artists airbrushed once-bare faces. A white fold-up table was stacked with red Gatorade, Dunkin’ Donuts coffee

Starr Chief Eagle stood in front of a crowd of onlookers as a drum beat began to swell from the large speakers behind her. She readied her body, preparing to reach for the first of 22 hoops that lay interlaced in front of her.

Chief Eagle had purchased a new red dress and flown from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota to Arden Hills, Minnesota, earlier that day to stand in front of the quieting crowd at diversity block party. Children, college students and adults waited underneath a stai