Saskatchewan Fashion week showcases Indigenous design and voices

Saskatchewan Fashion Week, successful Saskatoon, is successful afloat plaything and section and aspiring designers are not lone showcasing their enactment connected the runway but besides partaking successful an Indigenous led conference.

SFW is partnering with the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies to big a two-day lawsuit wrong manner week — Design Legacies: Indigenous Fashion & Textiles SUMMIT.

“I deliberation immoderate clip you are trying to uplift and marque changes successful the industry, it’s important that we person radical from divers backgrounds.” said Ryan Jimmy, manager of world strategy astatine the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies.

With astir 150 delegates and keynotes from crossed Canada, the acme aims to foster meaningful dialog and collaboration among Indigenous communities, manner professionals and textile innovators.

Two keynote speakers see Helen Oro, an accessory decorator who owns Oro Design, and Destiny Seymour, an interior decorator who created Indigo Arrows.

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“I deliberation it’s important to person these types of things present astatine home, due to the fact that usually erstwhile it comes to fashion, we person to permission the state and state to be conferences similar this,” said Oro. “So I deliberation it’s truthful bully to person it present astatine home.”

Oro volition talk connected time 2 of the summit, portion Seymour started disconnected the lawsuit Thursday.

“As a concern owner, I conscionable privation to fto them know, stock immoderate of my penetration and hopefully animate them to support going and to support uncovering their ain stories,” said Seymour.