Artists and Designers
Peepeekisis Cree Nation /
Indi City
Discipline:
Fashion
Angel and Alex are the Indigiqueer co-founders of Indi City. In 2017 they became the first global Indigenous Designers to incorporate wearable technology into traditional regalia. Their first piece a Woman’s Traditional outfit called “ The Matriarch Speaks,” exhibited in Calgary, Ottawa and Shenzhen, China. In the same year they both graduated from the Indigenous Women in Community Leadership Program at St.FX University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Together they design and create fashion accessories according to the current indigenization of Turtle Island in contact with their ancestral roots. Indi City has grown from a small business on Instagram to a newly launched online store with products also found in shops and boutiques across the country. With an in-house multi-media productions company they work to curate a 100% Indigenous made brand through visual marketing and story-telling.
Latest Collection
5 Gender Society
A Collection by:
Indi City
Our Nations honoured all the people in the tribe for who they are. As we come full circle in our reclamation of identity, culture and belonging adornment stands as a visual representation of what this movement looks and feels like. We’re collaborating to create that look and feel alongside some of our favourite designers from across Turtle Island. Inspired by the famous french textile ” Toile de Jouy” meaning ” fabric of joy” we’re weaving together a custom textile and story depicting 5 Gender Society. Moving through head-to-toe haute couture looks, shades of colour, textures and themes of what relationships with self and others looks like we are creating silhouettes that feel good and right for every body. Heather Bouchier, Alanna One Spot, Summer Peters, and Tishna Marlow have joined the Indi City vision to bring this collection together with expert design skills in garment and pattern making, quillwork, beadwork, and seamstress skill.