Sage Mountainflower is the owner and designer of her Indigenous fashion brand Sage Mountainflower. Integrating her beadwork techniques and pueblo styles into modern contemporary clothing, Mountainflower creates Indigenous couture fashion meant to be worn outside traditional boundaries. Her tribal bloodlines are Ohkay Owingeh, Taos Pueblo and Diné.
It’s Phendi Tewa Dress | Model: Jennifer Garcia | Photographer: Karl Duncan, Executive Director for Poeh Cultural Center
Mountainflower’s designs have been exhibited in a variety of art and fashion shows locally and internationally, most recently during Milan and Paris Fashion Week. She’s also won awards for her designs at the Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market in Phoenix and at the Santa Fe Indian Market in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This past year, her award-winning design It’s Phendi Tewa sold to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.
“I use beadwork in my designs to give it that extra elegance and make my pieces sparkle in the light.”
— Sage Mountainflower
The Phendi Tewa Collection is her most recent collection, a monochrome black-on-black line with a touch of gold. The black and gold are representative of the Summer Clan Colors in Ohkay Owingeh culture. In the Tewa language for the people of Tewa country, the word “phendi” means “black,” Mountainflower explains.
“The aesthetics of the Phendi collection include a series of geometric and floral designs or motifs that are usually found in the traditional pueblo attire or clothing, which are embroidered on our manta dresses or kilts. I use beadwork in my designs to give it that extra elegance and make my pieces sparkle in the light,” she says.
Mountainflower draws inspiration from her surrounding communities, culture and background in environmental sciences and water resources.
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