Wayuu Fashion

Wayuu Fashion

by Ana Lopez

Colsecre CI SAS



It is definitely a great pleasure to have in our hands a beautiful piece, made with an impeccable technique, but which also makes us feel exclusive and different, since we know that we have a unique product. This sensation is what produces a "ONE OF A KIND" Wayuu Backpack.

The Wayuu Indians who inhabit the Guajira desert of Colombia, possess the gift of creativity and a color management that would envy a painter. They weave from girls and never stop knitting until their death.

The first time I saw a Wayuu woman with her long embroidered dresses of colors, a Wayuu Backpack of a design price and sandals with huge pompoms walked through the Guajira desert, I thought it was the most beautiful image I had seen in my lifetime.

Coal mining began in Guajira and intruders invaded a Wayuu territory. At that time, we could not communicate with the Wayuu in Spanish and it was difficult to establish a trade of their products.
My husband fell in love with Wayuu art and began a difficult task of bringing the Backpacks to the rest of the world. He was very proud to show the beauty of Colombian products, despite being born in the United States of America.

 Over time, Vogue Magazine discovered the Wayuu backpack and thanks to this magazine the backpack became famous. It reminded me of the first time I saw a Wayuu woman in the middle of the desert sand and the 40 degree sun and the beauty I admired in her taste for fashion.
Wayuu women learned Spanish, became merchants of their products, understood that they had to create new styles to keep surviving in the world of fashion and also learned to use technology and communicate with the world.

I can only say that each Wayuu backpack is a piece of art, it is the thought of an indigenous woman who has done it with much work and love to achieve an exclusive bag.



by Ana Lopez

Colsecre CI SAS

colombiasecrets@gmail.com
https://www.thesuncollection.com


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