First Nations Fashion and Design Holds First Runway Show in Four Years Before Australian Fashion Week

First Nations Fashion and Design held its first runway show in four years Sunday night in Sydney, on the eve of Australian Fashion Week.

Titled “Reclamation,” the event showcased work from six Indigenous brands and designers. An all-Indigenous cast of models walked the runway. It closed with performances from rapper Barkaa and poet Luke Currie-Richardson.

FNFD announced plans to establish an annual runway platform for Indigenous designers, operating outside the industry's formal structures. Founder Grace Lillian Lee said: “Reclamation was never designed to fit comfortably within the existing fashion system. It was designed to challenge it, expand it, and ensure that our voices are not invited in temporarily, but embedded permanently within the future of Australian fashion.”