Always In Fashion

One of the garments here is a fur dress by Randi Nelson, and fur is on this show's agenda. When curator Amber-Dawn Bear Robe, founder of Native Fashion Week, gave her talk in May, the topics included the CFDA's position on fur, borders, high-fashion appropriation and tensions inside Indigenous communities.

She has brought together 24 designers and artists, from labels such as Original Landlords, EMME Studios and SACRD THNDR to gallery names Kent Monkman and Brian Jungen. Her stated aim is to take Indigenous fashion "beyond entertainment and runway presentations", so you meet these clothes off the catwalk, alongside the questions about appropriation and ancestral technique the show was built around.

The museum hasn't published which piece each designer shows, so come for the range rather than one star work. It runs until 3 January 2027 and is included in general admission ($15 adults), Wednesday to Sunday, 12 to 5. First Nations, Inuit and Métis visitors get in free, no ID needed.