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Reflecting the voices of Australian fashion

Barriers of entry and lack of infrastructure are still issues for Australian designers – it's time to talk about the D word.

17 Dec 2021 10:31

Celina Lei

Visual Arts

Indigenous Fashion Projects Runway finale at Afterpay Australian Fashion Week, 2021. Photo: Getty Images.

Whether you dress for comfort or it’s part of your identity, fashion is undoubtedly a vital part of our culture. That’s why it should also reflect the diversity within it.

‘Fashion is something that – I really, really strongly believe – should be reflecting the culture of a place,’ Dave Giles-Kaye, Manager of Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair’s Indigenous Fashion Project (IFP), told ArtsHub.

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Celina Lei

Celina Lei is the Diversity and Inclusion Editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Most recently, Celina was one of three Australian participants in DFAT’s the Future of Leadership program. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_