They can mass produce clothes and take away profits from the Cowichans selling their sweaters handmade


A similar thing happened when UK designer used an Inuit design in 2015




Fashion designers KTZ have apologized to the Inuit great-granddaughter of a shaman whose design they copied.

On Wednesday, Salome Awa, who is also a producer at CBC North, told us that the sweater being sold by KTZ for over $900 was a copy of her ancestor's sacred parka. Until this week, the garment was also sold at stores here in Canada.

Today, she told us the apology she received by email was "bittersweet."

"I'm kind of happy about it but sad at the same time," she tells As It Happens co-host Carol Off. "They didn't even mention an apology to my great-grandfather and they didn't even offer any monetary gains to our family."

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-friday-edition-1.3339772/u-k-fashion-house-pulls-copied-inuit-design-here-s-their-apology-1.3339779