Get an inside look at Australia’s Indigenous Fashion Awards which spotlighted First Nations couture.
SYDNEY – Paul McCann has won the Cultural Adornment and Wearable Art Award at the 2021 National Indigenous Fashion Awards.
Melbourne-based McCann, a Marrithiyel man who studied fashion design at Darwin’s Charles Darwin University – and whose day job is senior Indigenous arts officer with Victorian not-for-profit organization The Torch, providing art and cultural support to Indigenous inmates across the state – spent six weeks creating the ballgown in his spare time, using 21 meters of fabric, including 12 meters of hand-painted iridescent green gold vintage organza, embellished with over 70 hand-painted gumnuts –...
“I’m just really honored and blown away that the dress is continuing to be appreciated in different platforms” said McCann.Also Melbourne-based, Denni Francisco won the Fashion Design category for her Ngali label, which also appeared at AAFW as part of the event’s second Indigenous fashion showcase that was presented by DAAF’s Indigenous Fashion Projects initiative.
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