Hmong Fashion | Conversations on Dress | Costume Society of America

CSA Roundtable Hmong Fashion: Communicating Culture and History Across Time and Space The Hmong people are a diasporic community who have communicated their history and community through textiles. Our moderator and panelists will touch upon the history of paj ntaub (“flower cloth”) and story cloths and then speak to the ways in which their scholarship and designs carry Hmong culture into the present. All three of our speakers are designers of Hmong fashion: Kachia Lee is a graduate student in the College of Design at the University of Minnesota, Pachia Lucy Vang is a graduate student at UC Davis in California, and Mang Thao, an owner and fashion designer for Hill Tribe Fashion. Hill Tribe Fashion was the first to show modern Hmong Fashion at NY Fashion Week (in 2019). Did you enjoy this video? Please consider supporting our mission and our free webinar series by clicking here to make a contribution: https://csoa.memberclicks.net/contributions#/. Moderator: Kachia Lee is an apparel designer in Minnesota. She graduated from St. Catherine's University double majoring in Fashion Merchandising and Apparel Design along with a double minor in business administration and studio art in May 2019. In the fall of 2021, she will be continuing her studies in attending University of Minnesota for her Master's in Apparel Studies with a focus on History, Dress & Culture. Panelists: Pachia Lucy Vang is a Hmong textile enthusiast with a background in community organizing, curation, and