First Nations Fashion + Design

19/10/2026

📣Calling all First Nations Designers, Creatives and collaborators! 📣🔥 Applications are now open for the First Nations Fashion and Design Runway in Sydney, May 2027!
Whether you create fashion, textiles, adornment, or experimental design, this is your chance to shine on a national, industry-ready platform. To apply click the link in our Bio or visit firstnationsfashiondesign.com

16/10/2026

To our First Nations men and brothers: you belong in front of the camera. Your presence matters, your story matters, and your culture deserves to be seen. This is your sign to step forward and own your power. 🖤💪🏾🔥

FNFD is about championing the incredible First Nations models leading the way, breaking barriers, and proudly representing culture on the world stage alongside the designers, makers, BOH and many other roles that make up this industry.

📸 Credit: Lucas Dawson
& Wendell Levi Teodoro

14/10/2026

has us reflecting on FNFD trend-setting campaign image photographed by Atlantis Wade Lewis for our Walking in Two Worlds runway in 2020 featuring Charlee Fraser Danton Jnr and Roy.

Charlee is wearing a suit by Elverina Johnson Elverina Johnson

26/09/2026

Still not over the DETAILS 😍✨📸 captured on the Reclamation runways presented with Artspace earlier this year.

20/09/2026

More info on Sarima Chong, please check it out & reach out to her if interested. 🌸🎨

18/09/2026

It is our honor to give a shout-out to Indigenous Artist leading a legacy of cultural values & identity, Sarima Chong.
Sarma has Indigenous ties to South East QLD & FNQ region. She is a proud Mulinjarli, Wangerriburra, Yidinji & Wakaman cultural educator, facilitator & artist.
She facilitates amazing community women’s & youth workshops.

09/09/2026

Proud to be building this collaboration between Trinity Bay State High School and First Nations Fashion + Design (FNFD). ✨
For FNFD, this is about creating meaningful pathways for the next generation — giving young people opportunities to explore fashion, design, culture and creative practice while connecting with First Nations artists, designers and industry.
There is something incredibly powerful about creating these opportunities locally in Cairns, where young people can see that a future in the creative industries is possible, while being encouraged to draw strength from culture, community and their own stories.
Through our work with TBay, we hope to create space for students to experiment, learn new skills, build confidence and begin imagining where their creativity might take them.
This is exactly the kind of partnership FNFD wants to continue building — connecting education, culture and industry to create stronger pathways for our young people.
We’re excited to see what comes from this collaboration. 🤎

20/08/2026

OUR SEARCH CONTINUES
Recently, FNFD began the search for an Interim General Manager to support the organisation through an important period of development and strengthening.
We received interest from some wonderful people and are grateful to everyone who took the time to apply.
Through that process, we’ve gained even greater clarity about the particular leadership and experience FNFD needs at this moment, and we’ve decided to continue our search to find the right person.
We’re looking for a strong and calm organisational leader who can step in and provide clear day-to-day leadership across FNFD — bringing sound judgement, accountability and strong capability across financial management, governance, people and culture, funding relationships and organisational operations.
We’re looking for someone who can work closely with our Board and team, translate strategy into action, bring clarity to priorities and help strengthen the foundations FNFD needs for its next chapter.
At the heart of this role is an understanding of FNFD’s purpose and way of working: providing strong organisational leadership while ensuring our creative and cultural vision remains community-led.
We’re taking the time to find someone with the right combination of experience, capability, cultural respect and values alignment for this important interim role.
If this sounds like you — or someone in your network — we’d love to hear from you.
Interim General Manager | FNFD
Cairns | Part-time | Immediate start
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Interim General Manager providing organisational leadership for First Nations Fashion and Design.

19/08/2026

Friends of FNFD Dinner 2026 images

13/08/2026

🎉 Wiradjuri business owner Jarin Baigent, founder of Jarin Street and Trading Blak, will be the MC for our upcoming roundtable.

Get along. It’s free.

More info 👉🏿 www.nsw.gov.au/aboriginal-business-roundtable

Artwork: ‘In the Footsteps of our Ancestors’ by Amy Allerton