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Aboriginal designer calls Miss Universe Canada’s 2008 costume “offensive”

Wearing a Cree-inspired, fringed leather bikini encrusted with rhinestones and a feathered war bonnet, the woman representing Canada at the Miss Universe pageant 2008 in Vietnam appeared before more than one billion global TV viewers on July 13. Samantha Tajik, 26, who was born in Iran, grew up in Vancouver, and now lives in Richmond Hill, Ontario. Yesterday, however, one of Canada's foremost aboriginal designers called Tajik's national costume "offensive". Dorothy Grant told the Georgia Straight that sexualizing the war bonnet is tantamount to sexualizing another cultures' spiritual symbol.

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