Indigenous fashion runway shows come to Toronto's Eaton Centre

The 2024 Indigenous Fashion Arts Festival kicked off on Thursday, May 30, at the CF Toronto Eaton Centre with the first of four nights of runway shows. Thursday evening’s event, dubbed “My Tender Bundle” and presented by La Maison Simons, was a demonstration of family justice and radical caregiving. The runway program celebrated the rich cultural expressions of Indigenous peoples from Canada, the U.

S., Brazil, Greenland, New Zealand and Indonesia. The festival also featured a 70-vendor marketplace at the downtown mall and the “Fashioning Resurgence” symposium and workshop series at Toronto Metropolitan University’s Student Learning Centre.

Eaton Centre was turned into a fashion runway. Sara Diamond and Elder Whabagoon Phipps-Walker. Sage Paul.

Michaella Montana. Agnes Yellow Bear. Chelazon Leroux.

Clarity Smoke. Jaime Raposo, Norma Hedrick, EJ Kwandibens and Carola Jones. Vicky Milner and Susan Langdon.

Veronica William and Christina Armanious. Wabanoonkwe, A’ngelee Clause and Margaret Faliano. Winona McGregor and Misko McGregor.

Cynthia Lickers-Sage. Claudia Skunk and Peter Robinson. Hillary LeBlanc and Ivor Pinder.

Shawkay and Jacqueline Ottmann. Joleen Mitton..