This grant supported Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week (VIFW) 2023, an extraordinary celebration of Indigenous creativity and culture VIFW highlights how fashion can build connections with Indigenous values, wisdom, and history, and cultivate of strength and resiliency in Indigenous communities, as well as be a vehicle for understanding and reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.
Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week (VIFW) highlights how fashion can become a powerful tool for the cultivation of strength and resiliency in Indigenous communities, as well as a vehicle for understanding and reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. This grant supported the 2022 edition of VIFW.
Indigenous Fashion Arts is Indigenous-led and committed to becoming a leader in the dissemination and exportation of Indigenous-made works for the advancement and empowerment of Indigenous artists and designers, connecting them and their work to Canadian and international audiences, festivals, buyers, retailers, curators and institutes.
