‘The first designers and models of this world’: attending the 2023 National Indigenous Fashion Awards

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dc.contributor.author	McNeil, P https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2151-4196
dc.contributor.author	Clark, T https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8178-4876
dc.date.accessioned	2023-12-05T02:51:44Z
dc.date.available	2023-12-05T02:51:44Z
dc.date.issued	2023-08-17
dc.identifier.citation	2023
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/173674
dc.description.abstract	The Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair has concluded for another year with more than 70 exhibitors and a successful fashion program. The Indigenous Fashion Projects festival grows in size and quality every year, showing the potential for First Nations fashion – like art and music – to become defining features of Australian life. Yet beyond the lights, makeup and action, people in the First Nations fashion industry just want their voices to be heard. They see their contributions to fashion, textile design and modelling as contributing to cultural tradition, economics and cultural sustainability, and blak pride and storytelling.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	The Conversation
dc.relation	University of Technology Sydney
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.title	‘The first designers and models of this world’: attending the 2023 National Indigenous Fashion Awards
dc.type	Internet Publication
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Design
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CCDP - Contemporary Design Practice
utslib.copyright.status	open_access	*
dc.date.updated	2023-12-05T02:51:33Z
pubs.publication-status	Published online

Abstract:

The Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair has concluded for another year with more than 70 exhibitors and a successful fashion program. The Indigenous Fashion Projects festival grows in size and quality every year, showing the potential for First Nations fashion – like art and music – to become defining features of Australian life. Yet beyond the lights, makeup and action, people in the First Nations fashion industry just want their voices to be heard. They see their contributions to fashion, textile design and modelling as contributing to cultural tradition, economics and cultural sustainability, and blak pride and storytelling.

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