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Traditional tattoos were created by using sooted caribou sinew as string, covered in dirt and seal oil and threaded under the skin.
Anna Sui displayed their use of face tattoos on their Instagram account:
The clothing is amazing but I feel it's necessary to say the facial makeup tattooing are from Eskimo/Inuit culture, not Vikings
Love the face paint ✌️
Mixing vintage styles with her current cultural obsessions, she effortlessly makes hip and exuberant original clothes. Whether Anna's inspiration is Victorian cowboys, Warhol superstars or Finnish textile prints, her depth of cultural knowledge is always apparent. "When I'm interested in something, I want to know everything about it," she says.
This particular show and collection was "inspired by the Arts and Crafts Movement in the Nordic countries"
and while there are Inuit in Greenland, as well as Sami throughout Norway, Sweden and Finland, neither Indigenous peoples seem to be recognized by Anna Suit or her company in this fashion show or their surrounding media coverage.
Nor has the representation of Inuit culture in the use of traditional Inuit face tattoos been in any way acknowledged; Which for a designer who claims to "want to know everything about" her "current cultural obsessions" seems a little disingenuous.
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