The reality of digging the native mode

  The event, which will take place at Central Pier Docklands on Wednesday night , was excavated by the local fashion set , professional development provides opportunities for young Aboriginal and Maori designers, models , makeup artists and stylists.

Director and co-founder Tina Waru said the theme of the show is " generations. "

First model of Indigenous Australia and one of the original sapphires, Lois Peeler , open the ball and four years is a beauty contestant Cassidee Fernando appearance .

" A rule is a fashion fantasy. , This is the clothes that we can not usually of women with bodies we have never worn make ," Mrs. Waru said.

" This fashion show is fantasy and reality in an indigenous land. We make the very idea of ??what is a fashion show , not the result of high-end fashion."

Among those strutting down the catwalk Liam Price , 24, Sarah Brodrick , 27, Marlena Martin , 25, Jesse Weetra , 15, and Tyrone Bean , 21, who attended a photo shoot for The Australian yesterday.

Price , who lives in Newcastle, north of Sydney , but is originally from Warlpiri people of Central Australia and figures indigenous leader Bess Price and AFL footballer Liam Jurrah as close relatives , said he was very proud , " Paperbark woman " Australian native Lenore Dembski designer label to wear under the program .

" My family is very proud of," said yesterday price . " It gives me something to be good and happy that it is not sport."

Brodrick , had its work culture community recently named "Miss Humanity International New Zealand " , saw the Fashion Week as an opportunity to promote Maori culture and learn about Australian Aboriginal culture .

She wears a white dress with pattern Gomaroi wife Colleen Tighe Johnson , 52, who made his work brought to Melbourne from Moree in NSW .

" It tells the story of the Mehi River flowing through the center of the city , as well as the history of the place where my mother was born , running ," Tighe said Johnson.

Martin , another New Zealander , is one of the many out-of- towners are from Melbourne Maori and Aboriginal families during the week instead .

There is a dress of Harakeke or New Zealand flax and New Zealand greenstone pendant, designed by the mother, the daughter and son -in-law Whare O Te Rangi label.