Vancouver-based outerwear brand Arc’teryx has introduced a new design platform, Walk Gently, which aims to honor and integrate Indigenous high-tech garment design into modern fashion.  The platform gives Indigenous artists and designers a voice, showcasing their contributions to high-performance clothing. Indigenous Roots in Technical Design Indigenous peoples across North America have a long history of creating advanced clothing from natural resources.   “We are technical designers in our own fashion,” Cole Sparrow-Crawford, an Indigenous artist who grew up in the Musqueam Nation in Vancouver told FastCompany. “We took our resources and