About CIAF Fashion Performance
The CIAF’s Fashion Performance is a leading artistic platform where Indigenous culture is celebrated through art, fashion, modelling, dance, and performance. Launched in 2013 by Grace Lillian Lee, the Fashion Performance has become known for featuring a wide range of Indigenous Artists and Designers who are actively expressing themselves through fashion and textiles. The project creates a unique space for a wide array of creatives to come together collaboratively from dance, music, and art in order to present a contemporary fashion performance that has gained National and International recognition in publications such as Peppermint Magazine, Vogue Japan, and Lifestyle Vogue Australia.
The aim of the CIAF Fashion Performance is to bring together contemporary Indigenous fine art and wearable art, with high-end fashion through performance and movement within two innovative and professional catwalk shows. With the purpose to promote contemporary Indigenous design and to empower Indigenous youth through representation of who they are and where they come from.
We envisage this year’s Fashion Performance to be made up of full fashion collections, wearable art, elaborate adornments (head dress neck & body adornments) or both. CIAF has created an opportunity for Designers and Models to share the act of adornment, presentation, and collaboration.