Creator Amy Yeung Puts the Breaks on Fast Fashion
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- čas přidán 13. 03. 2019
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Amy Yeung Puts the Breaks on Fast Fashion!
Liberating herself from the stigma of ageism, Amy is 55 years young, good with her mane of salt and pepper hair and on the brink of breaking free. Stepping into the world of reimagined vintage and upcycled textiles from all over the world that is her company Orende Tribe, is like a deep dive into a bygone era of one-of-a-kind clothing and accessories that scream of an ancient beauty lost in a world of mass-produced disposable fashion. Amy is on cloud nine in her status as ex-corporate creative director for fast fashion brands, instead using her precious time to decolonize herself, give back and reconnect to her roots as a Native American that were once lost when she was adopted as a baby to parents who lived in a small rural town in Indiana.
For Amy’s full life and style story, listen to her episode of our podcast, What’s Underneath, on iTunes (bit.ly/WUStyleA), Spotify (spoti.fi/2l894E9) or Stitcher (bit.ly/2HNthb1).
And if you know anyone who would be empowered by Amy’s story, please share the links to her episode with them and be a part of spreading the message that true style is the result of radical self-acceptance.
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Another fabulous woman of a certain age with great personal style...Amy is definitely an original and an inspiration. I so love the return of Closets!
I'm a fabric lover too. :) It wouldn't suit me, but I love the hair cut. It's easy maintenance and it suits her style. She gives a calm and relaxed vibe to the video. Which is very pleasant.
She is so wonderful, as is her podcast interview. Editing both must have been so hard because you could listen to her talk for hours! 🧡
What can I say? I live for this kind of truth and authenticity! :* Lots of love in embracing our own paths in life.
Her fabric stash is gorgeous. I am a fabric hoarder too. She is a master print mixer. Lovely.
She’s beautiful! I love her spirit. Thank you for sharing
Love her and her message and especially love how she blends the fabrics : that makes it dynamic and appropriate, as culture in my opinion is invention.
Kente cloth is West African, indigenous to Ghana, the Fanti and Ashanti and other tribes weave this traditional cloth and the colours are particular to certain klans and chiefdoms.
Was about to comment the same. Kente is a distinct Ghanaian textile. I really enjoyed her feature but that was an incorrect statement on her part. Perhaps it was a brain fog moment
There is little education about ethnic clothing from the African continent. There are so many different nations, tribes and kingdoms and within them infinite cloths, clothes and what they symbolise. Until we accept the humanity of these peoples and give appropriate attention to learning their different culture, we will continue to lump Africans and African products in one amorphous primitive mass from which we steal and appropriate with impunity.
I do the same thing with combination 😊💜I love her spirit 🥳🥳🥳
I do the same with combination 😊I appreciate her spirit
Oh my... I would LOVE to sit with Amy over tea (or wine!) and just talk about life. She is so on point.
Mixing the cultures is a beautiful thing . 💜
Wow. You are a knockout !! I am African American and soon to be 57. I just loved EVERYTHING about you and your story. SO authentic. SO inspiring.😍💖
As a textile lover this was so good to watch!
Thank you so much for this series. Uplifting, inspiring, educational.... All the things! xoxox
SHOW THE CLOTHES! Look at those amazing things on the rack and you give us 3 outfits!
This lady is Amazing....the patterns and textiles are breathtaking.
Her style is so inspiring!
Love her, her story and those beautiful garments & textiles
"I start out every morning, putting my top knot on, putting my flight suit on and just heading out and getting shit done." Role model right there.
i love style closets. i am glad closets is back!
OMG THE DOPEST CLOTHING/ACCESSORIES COLLECTION EVER!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Love her style! You've Inspired me!
I love her style!!
Thank you!
what an inspiring woman!
Omg!!! I really need to contact her 😱😱 this is unbelievable i love it
amen! blended cultures would mean we realize we're all the same =]
Love her energy
Oh my goodness , I want to shop with you. You are very inspiring. I'm going to get some wine and dark chocolate and cut into some fabric rn.
Her skin is very beautiful.
I just realised I am native as well as afro Caribbean. It explains my outlook on life.
Love a lot of those fabrics ❤️
Most interesting. Best wishes for this lady.
I have a friend in her 70s who is a textile artist who goes to Indonesia each year and I guess she too could be accused of appropriating stuff. The other side is she pays for everything, she fostered Indonesian kids, the villages she's gone for years give her a grand welcome and she supported those communities through bad times e.g. after the Bali bombings, and they let her sketch and them and like the lino prints and other art works she makes that have Indonesian themes. Actual contact and treating each other as equals makes all the difference.
I love these videos
Such an inspiring woman
Amazing persona....💗
♡♡ ♡ everything about this women
Beautiful inspiring X
I love your Kente mix outfit, great combination
Amazing amazing 🙌💫
You are very unique and love what you do.👍🏾❤
Ahhh love this!!!
Yay i"m from manitoba and I appreciated the name drop 💕🇨🇦❤
Fabulously cultured
I want her to be a friend.
I love this,thank you 💚
Happy to know that!
Dark chocolate, me too ! Nice person, doing good work : )
I want to reach 55 and look as graceful as Amy.
I wanna be like her when I grow up!
Awesome!!!🧡🧡🧡
Amazing❤️
This was so refreshing!
I only get clothes I can do everything in, including sleep. I do add cashmere sweaters in every color. I can always use them for eye shades at night..I just turn the sweater inside out!
🎩 love it!
What an amazing , gorgeous woman. I thought she was 40 at the oldest.
A true visionary
Kente isnt north African.. rather west.. maybe she mixed it with the striped fabric.. (Black & white) it looks kind of berber..
Anyone else in love with this woman or is it just me? Serious question lol also couldn't care less how old she is :) She's got a crazy aura that jumps out at you from the CPU Screen. Please pass on the message and put a smile on her face, please. Cheers. Toodleloo.
what an absolutely beautiful woman x
Very unique 💯 😉
AMAZING
Know what you are wearing, and where it comes from
FABULOUS LADY
Thank you
💜
girl, you need to go in the top full white hair volume 30 - 40 to finish the masterpiece.
❤️🔥
💜💜💜
Closet classics: Bliss :)
Wow and I thought I was weird for feeling the same way for frabic.
You are absolutely beautiful. I wish I knew my Cherokee family.
Kente cloth is West Afrakhan ✌🏿✊🏿🙌🏾👏🏽🙏🏿👣🧘🏾♂️🌞
If you love 💕 something, then wear it.
What’s that hat called that she’s wearing
Brakes*
Amo os vídeos, apesar de não entender o idioma kkkkk. Bjusss!!!
Kente cloth is west african. Not north african.
Ok, she just got it mixed up.....thats life!
...and if you respect your culture and/or history, it is worth pointing out its actual origin... and that is also life.
PrincessLeah187 xx If that’s you in your pic, you are gorgeous! Just sayin’. 😊
@@swiftbanderilla Yes, thats right. kente cloth originated from west Africa, but kente cloth is also sold all over Africa. She could have got her kente cloth North Africa and that could be perhaps why she said it was from North Africa.
@@ellajohnson2257 could be! ---
❤️❤️❤️❤️🌟💧💚
Really wanna be her friend.
LOVEUX
Omg!! Kente is west african....huge blunder for someone who says she is so into authenticity of fashion.
You beat me to it. Maybe she bought it in the north?🤷♀️
@@AthenaGM maybe but still for someone so grounded in fashion I expected she would have done her homework.Its such a simple fact kente is so unique you can't associate it with anything else but Ghana.
Made her lose credibility to me. Sorry but kente is famously Ashanti!
Why did she put on her mukluks pompoms inward tho
One of the best snap lessons on how not to appropriate other peoples shit !!!!!!!!
@ 5:42 We know that every human being on earth shares the same mitochondrial DNA that traces all the way back to the same group of women in Great Grandmother Africa. As human being migrated out of Africa and spread out over the earth settling in colder climates where they suddenly had to wear clothing to keep warm and therefore could not absorb nutrients from the sun a sudden epigenetic mutation took place causing less melanin which made it possible to get nutrient with less skin exposed the same genes responsible for melanin affected eye color and hair texture ...race is merely a series of a long line of genetic mutations...we are all cousins! Cultures and languages developed when human beings went in all directions of the earth as well as the textiles that developed along with cloth making and decorative motifs were handed down ...When Amy Yeung mixes textiles from different cultures she is honoring humanity and the creative human spirit!
please forgive my long comment Amy is truly inspiring thanks so much for featuring her
Something hollow about this to me.
really? How so?
Kente fabrics are not Northern African!!! They are mainly from Ghana which is Western Africa!!! Gosh, how about doing your own research first?
Decolonisation ? What an ingrate
🤔🤨🧐???
Please tell the lady Kente is west African . Please practice what you preach by researching .