Ethnic

Term first used in the 1960s when designers were looking for and experimented with new aesthetic approaches inspired by clothing from distant and unknown cultures. The clothes could be simple and comfortable, or, on the contrary, very skillfully worked and manufactured, but above all they were inspired by the clothes and costumes of people who were not part of the modernized West, and were often from South America, Africa, the Far East, and the islands of the Pacific. This is what allows them to be called ethnic pieces. This multicultural message has by now become deeply rooted in contemporary fashion.