A viral video on networks shows the Peruvian designer Anis Samanez speaking as a panelist at the event Origins 2024 organized by the Sustainable Fashion Association of Peru in Barranco. During her speech, Samanez expresses indignation when recounting an experience in which a Shipibo community refused to share their ancestral knowledge in textile techniques for free, knowledge that the designer planned to use to market. His comments provoked a response from Ministry of Culture.
Ministry of Culture against statements by designer Anis Samanez and editor of Vogue Latin America
In the panel, the editor Vogue Mexico and Latin America , Jose Forteza supported with a derogatory and paternalistic comment towards the indigenous community, in reference to their refusal to transmit the knowledge related to a sacred Kené design. “Don’t be difficult. If it weren’t for her [Anis Samanez]”They would continue to die of hunger,” he said.
Given the statements made, the Ministry of Culture He spoke quickly, rejecting the comments of the national designer and the editor of Vogue, highlighting the cultural importance of the Shipibo-Konibo.
Ministry of Culture rejects comments from Anis Samanez and the editor of Vogue Latin America. Photo: Ministry of Culture/Instagram
“Kené art, declared Cultural Heritage of the Nation in 2008, is one of the main cultural manifestations of the identity, worldview and aesthetics of the Shipibo-Konibo indigenous people. As the governing body of interculturality and cultural heritage in the country, the Ministry of Culture rejects the comments made at the Orígenes 2024 event by the designer Anis Samanez, and the editor of Vogue Mexico and Latin America, José Forteza, against the will of identity of the traditional knowledge of the Shipibo-Konibo native peoples. Based on this event, it reiterates the multisectoral duty to guarantee the safeguarding of traditional knowledge, as well as to eliminate any act that could carry a discriminatory connotation and cultural appropriation, which threatens. against the legacy of our indigenous peoples and their collective and individual rights,” they wrote in a statement on their social networks.
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