Just because you don’t see people like yourself up on stage in international fashion shows doesn’t mean you don’t want good fashion of your own. There are great designers making clothes that include Fijian design, hijabs or Vietnamese fabric. And all of those just in Sydney’s western suburbs.

Filmmaker Thuy Ngyuen made the documentary Against the Grain about the Western Sydney Fashion Festival. She also helped make the Festival happen in the first place.

Links from this episode:

Keep up to date with the Western Sydney Fashion Festival
See some of the designers we were talking about in Thuy’s short doco about the Festival, Against the Grain.
The designers mentioned in this episode were:

• Bayvick Designs
• Delina
• Amalina Aman
• Laksmhi-Bee
• Tiana Van
• Style of the Impressionism (Marky Dong)

Songs from this episode:

2 6 4 — Body Type
No Quiero Crecer (reprise) — Eusebio
Wrench and Numbers — Jeff Russo & The Prague FILMharmonic Orchestra (Fargo Season 2 soundtrack)
We Had Coffee— Adrian Young & Ali Shaheed Muhammad (Luke Cage soundtrack)

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