NEW YORK U.S. fashion designer Willy Chavarria said he regrets that sandals he created together with Adidas "appropriated" a traditional design from the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Local authorities had complained that the Oaxaca Slip-On sandals were a "reinterpreted" model of huarache sandals, particularly one found uniquely in the area, which has one of the highest Indigenous populations in the country. Mexico's government said on Aug. 8 it was seeking compensation from Adidas. "I