Marketplace Day 2

Explore and shop the works of over 70 Indigenous artists, designers, collectives, and brands from around the world. This is…

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Marketplace Day 1

Explore and shop the works of over 70 Indigenous artists, designers, collectives, and brands from around the world. This is…

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Opening Party

Celebrate the launch of the 2024 IFA Festival at Milestones Restaurant located inside the CF Toronto Eaton Centre. Proof of…

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Welcome Gathering

Launch the 2024 IFA Festival with festival artists and the IFA team. This event is FREE. Tickets are required to…

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IFWTO X EDITO PAR SIMONS

Launched in Spring 2020, Indigenous Fashion Arts, formerly known as Indigenous Fashion Week Toronto (IFWTO), united forces with Simons to create a limited capsule collection with Indigenous artists from communities across Canada.

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Masterclass

Communicating your narrative and honouring our stories is the most important part of Indigenous fashion. Using case studies of Indigenous…

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Colours, Materials and Symbols

Fashion is a rich and complex visual language that communicates meaning. Indigenous fashion embodies our diverse cultural values with aesthetic…

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Fashion Business

Platforms like IFWTO and digital spaces like Instagram offer a degree of sovereignty for Indigenous creatives in fashion. As the…

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In Conversation

Christi Belcourt is a Michif (Metis) visual artist and community activist with a deep respect for Mother Earth and the…

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Connection to Ancestral Knowledge

Artist Jaad Kuujus has described her woven works as threads that connect to ancestral knowledge. Visualizing the strong connections between…

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Fashion Journalism

The dissemination of Indigenous-made fashion through media will be an integral part of the emerging movement’s success, but increased visibility…

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The Eagle and The Condor

There is a long history of trade and connection between the Indigenous people of the Americas. Revitalizing and sustaining these…

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Land-Based Fashion

While the mainstream fashion industry fumbles to balance its capitalist values and new commitments to environmental protection, Indigenous creators in…

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Beading Table Discussions

In 2020 beading circles across Turtle Island went virtual, ensuring that community support and kinship ties remained strong despite the…

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Tu Gh’eh Nah // Water is Life

The opening night programs features fashion, craft and textiles for protest and sovereignty. Featuring streetwear, bright colours, messages of protection…

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Tu Cho // Lake

Water covers over 70% of the earth’s surface. Since time immemorial, the great oceans have acted as both barrier and…

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Metalwork with Mathew Nuqingaq

In this two-day workshop, participants will learn to make copper, brass, or silver jewelry from renowned metalsmith artist Mathew Nuqingaq.…

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My Tender Bundle

My Tender Bundle, is a demonstration of family justice and radical caregiving. In the face of colonial and systemic tactics…

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Fierce + Fearless

The resilience and ingenuity of Indigenous designers are showcased in Fierce + Fearless. Their collections confront colonization, loudly challenging social…

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From This Ground We Grow

From This Ground We Grow, the designers showcase their deep connections to place. Their functional and ornate designs recall land-based…

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Materialize

Materialize, dives into the fascinating realm of material culture. These diverse collections unite traditional and contemporary approaches in harvesting and…

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Fashion & Indigenous Futurisms

Understanding how traditional and current-day reclamation and sovereignty of Indigenous culture influences and defines technology and innovation in fashion.

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Cultural (In)Appropriation

Copyright of fashion is legally not possible. Consequently, “borrowing” from other cultures is strongly encouraged and common practice among mainstream…

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Indigenous Entrepreneurship

A practical panel discussion for artist and designer entrepreneurs, with a focus on maintaining your artistic practice as a business,…

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Storytelling & Symbolism

Keynote with Kent Monkman that unravels fashion, crafts and textiles beyond commercialism and capitalism and looks at Indigenous fashion, craft…

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Indigenous Dyes & Fibres

A three-part lecture, each presenter will introduce knowledge of traditional and sustainable materials for weaving and dyeing, including indigo, black…

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FROSTMOON

Seal fur, vibrant colour & bone: inuk street style, high dene fashion.

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HARVESTMOON

An intergenerational honouring of our matriarchs, design and story that passes through generations with our matriarchs.

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BERRYMOON

Tradition and imagining the future of regalia.

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NEW MOON

Creating space for new work and to foster emerging artists.

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2023 IFA Trade Program

The inaugural 2023 IFA Trade Program connected Indigenous designers to WHITE Milano; the Canadian Creator Accelerator in NYC; Original, Mexico; and a ROM retail pop-up shop.

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2019 INTERNATIONAL FASHION SHOWCASE

The International Fashion Showcase (IFS) nurtures and presents work from the most exciting fashion talent from around the world. Working in partnership, British Council, British Fashion Council, London College of Fashion

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Network Weave

The Network advocates for Indigenous methodologies and nurtures supportive networks across fashion, the arts, and commerce through various research and activities in advocacy, professional development and sector development.

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Friday Night Market

The Friday Night Market is an open-air lake view fair held at nighttime featuring entertainment from ELMNT FM! We invite…

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Opening Night Party

Celebrate the launch of the festival at the Opening Night Party with entertainment, food and refreshments following the Eternal Imaginaries…

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Welcome Gathering

Launch the IFA Festival with us! Enjoy welcoming remarks from Grandma Pauline Shirt, festival artists and the IFA team with…

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Hide Tanning

A four-day hands-on brain hide tanning workshop with Amber Sandy and Kanina Terry. Brain tanning is the art of preserving…

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Regalia Applique for Beginners

In this introductory workshop on applique for regalia, Rhonda Doxtator will teach traditional applique methods for Pow Wow regalia, including…

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Eternal Imaginaries

Eternal Imaginaries represents a fantastical and sometimes playfully absurd horizon, repurposing social narratives and colonial silhouettes. It is a sartorial…

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Sovereign Matriarchs

Sovereign Matriarchs honours women as knowledge carriers, teachers and role models; It is a reflection of kinship, stewardship and love.…

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Time Weavers

Time Weavers is a continuum of presence that carries history from one family member’s hands to the next. It is…

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A Letter from Home

The burst of a blueberry between your teeth, the sound of fish hooks clanging, laughter echoing from your neighbours’ house…

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IFA Association Town Hall

Indigenous Fashion Arts is hosting a Town Hall to initiate the new IFA Association that is member-driven and advocates for…

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