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Vancouver's Indigenous Fashion Week gets underway

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Charlene Aleck (left) and Perseis Paul (right) wear designs from Yolonda Skelton. (Courtesy of Zuleyyma/Queer Based Media)
Charlene Aleck (left) and Perseis Paul (right) wear designs from Yolonda Skelton. (Courtesy of Zuleyyma/Queer Based Media)

Vancouver's Indigenous Fashion Week is underway. It's a chance for top Indigenous designers to demonstrate their creativity and culture to a diverse audience. The models showing the latest fashion will also be Indigenous themselves.

Sonia Narang is in Canada reporting on the week. She joins Deepa Fernandes from the event in Vancouver.

Fashion Week founder Joleen Mitton (middle) with hair and makeup team. (Courtesy of Brian Nguyen)
Fashion Week founder Joleen Mitton (middle) with lead makeup artist Marlayna Pincott (left) and lead hair stylist Krystal Dumais (right). (Courtesy of Brian Nguyen)
A photo backstage at Indigenous Fashion Week. (Courtesy of Brian Nguyen)
Randi Gardypie in a photo taken backstage at Indigenous Fashion Week. (Courtesy of Brian Nguyen)

This segment aired on November 21, 2024.

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