Ethnic apparel has a very big influence on apparel design across the border. The word ethnic means belonging to or deriving from a cultural, race, religion, or linguistic traditions of a people or country, such as ethnic dances. All of these things can introduce what a designer can base their collection on and the direction in which they want to go with it.
Designers and their teams are known to go across the globe to see what is going on in other cultures and incorporate that into their dress, which is a very good decision to make. Many different people from various places have come to the United States in the last few years, and this has had a positively ethnic influences on dress here. Designers have taken such outfits as the saree (right) and made it for their runway collection, such as the design at left at Anna Sui. She has made her Fall 2008 very clear that ethnicity and culture has made very strong influences on her collection, such as the Indian look.
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