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Layne Christensen

Fashion Editor
lehristensen@nsnews.cam
FASHION designer
Pam Baker is right on
the zeitgeist.

Her designs tor spring
reveal the same deheate bead:
ing, ethnic-inspired embror-
dery, gossanter-light fabrics
and clean lines that veu’d
spot in any Seventh Avenue
showroont or Beverly Hills
bounque.

A member of the Squamish
Nation, Tack has always had a
talent: for design, which she
sefined through courses in
textiles arts at) Capilano
College. Bur it was three vears
at Los Angeles’ famed Otis
College of Art and Desivn
that helped hone her tasiion
sense.

While at Otis, Pack com-
pleted a work-study assign-
ment with Hollywood cos-
tumer Nolan Miller, best
known for his designs for TV's
Dynasty. For her senior-class
project, she created a burn-
out velvet evening gown with
raven design that won her a
design award and $5,000 in
cash, which is about what Pack
would charge for the dress if
she ever decided to sell it.

Since returning home to
the Capilano Reserve three
years ago, she’s produced an
evening wear collection under
the Touch of Culture label.
She’s also developed a line of
fleece sportswear subtly
embroidered with native

THE clesigner hopes to bui?d her TOC sportswear
collection inte a viable business that would employ
Squamish Naticn band members, with fleece gar-
ments produced and sold on the Capilano reserve.

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designs. which she plains to
manenmeture amd wholesale
front the newly tinsshed 2.000
square foot studio and show
room athiched to the bome
she shares with sons Marcas,
15, and Desinon, 9.

Tt is asain this sire two
level space that Pack works
with band members on sociat
assistance Who are enrolled in
the Stitsma artisan skills devel-
opment progam, “Seven have
started in the program and tive
have stucx it out,” says Pack of
her trainees, Who are learning
beading, embroidery and cou
ture sewing techniques.
“We're building the skills
wathin the mation so we can
sel} oevervthing oon the
reserve.”

Pack, who's worked as a
dru and alcool counsellor,
also works with Squamish
Nation vouth who are a part
of the Just Doo Tt program,
which teaches young aduits
haw ta be self-sufficient. self
confident and substance tree.

Pack's group of 15 youths,
ages 13 to 23, are fundraising
for a tip te Arizon: i
spring. Next Saturda
19) at the Squamish
recreation centre, located on
the Capilano reserve, thev'll
present a fashion show of the
designer's Touch of Calture
collection along with student
designs. The show, and
accompanying duction, starts
at 6 p.m. Tickets are $35 per
person through Ticketmaster

at 280-4444 or by calling
Touch of Culture at 980-

Tg

PAM Baker says her Touch of Culture evening-wear collection, whichincorpo- | @
rates native designs with a fashion flair, is garnering interest since the design-
er returned from design school in Los Angeles three years ago.

Sunday February 13. 2000 - North Shore News - 15

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