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Lillardia Briggs-Houston accepting her award. Source: Ad(dressing) Indigeneity
By Peter McNeil and Treena Clark, University of Technology Sydney
17 August 2023
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.
Read the full article at The Conversation.
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