Ever since her very first Killers of the Flower Moon premiere, Lily Gladstone has been utilizing the purple carpet to highlight Indigenous designers. The actor—who’s breaking floor this 12 months as the primary Native American actor to be nominated for an Oscar—has used her style decisions a significant medium to uplift the artists inside her personal neighborhood. 

Gladstone first burst onto the Hollywood scene on the Cannes Movie Pageant, the place she hit the step and repeat in a pair of dentalium shell earrings by Jamie Okuma. Since then, she’s worn much more Indigenous labels, together with Pamela Himikalas Baker and Elias Jade Not Afraid, to call a couple of.

Final evening, Gladstone stored the momentum going. Whereas receiving the Virtuosos Award on the Santa Barbara Worldwide Movie Pageant, she wore one of many brightest rising stars within the Indigenous style world. Styled by Jason Rembert, Gladstone hit the purple carpet in an architectural high manufactured from duck feathers—a hanging design by Jontay Kahm, a Plains Cree designer (profiled for Vogue right here) who attracts inspiration from conventional powwow regalia. “I wished to the touch on my Native tradition and components of conventional regalia—utilizing apparent shapes and silhouettes, however making it extra style,” he advised Vogue final 12 months. The highest options 2,000 feathers and was accomplished in two weeks.