Mexico asks US retailer to stop copying Indigenous design

Anthropologie has been asked to stop copying a design used by the Mixe Indigenous community.

Mexico’s National Institute of Indigenous Peoples called on the U.S. retailer Anthropologie on Wednesday to stop copying a design used by the Mixe Indigenous community.

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The institute said in a statement that Anthropologie’s "Marka embroidered shorts" copy a Mixe embroidery design from the poor village of Tlahuitoltepec, which is in the hills east of the capital of Mexico's southern state of Oaxaca.

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The shorts bear a pattern of blue flowers that the villagers say copies a traditional blouse design. The institute said the Mixes did not give permission for their design to be used, and called on Anthropologie to stop selling the shorts.

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Anthropologie's parent, Urban Outfitters Inc., did not immediately respond to a request for comment.