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The Perks (ATP) have finally completed their application and interview process for the Australian Indigenous Fashion Week
Design Program (AIFWDP) and are
pleased to announce the 2013 - 2014 AIFW Design
Program participants next week.
Eighteen Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander designers have
been selected to participate in this Inaugural Design Program which
will offer training in technical fashion skills, marketing, and
business enterprise development.
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Indigenous Fashion Week (AIFW) is a new national platform to promote
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander fashion design. The AIFW Design
program is being offered over a period of 12 months prior to the
Inaugural AIFW 2014 Runway event to assist to nurture existing and
emerging Australian Indigenous designers.
The AIFW Design Program is being offered in two locations, Sydney and Brisbane. The program will be delivered over the course of 9 Workshop days. IBA will provide business and marketing training which will be delivered over 3 Workshop days by an IBA approved consultant.
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The Perks and Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) have partnered to
deliver a Free Training program to assist
with Indigenous economic outcomes. The emerging designers will produce a
series of collections for the Inaugural Buyer and Consumer AIFW
Runway events set to take place in April 2014 in Sydney.
I AM SO EXCITED!
