The largest runway showcase of First Nations fashion in Australia, Country to Couture celebrates an 11 year legacy of cultural integrity, artistic innovation, and community empowerment. 
 
Join us under the stars on Larrakia Country, at the landscaped forecourt garden at Charles Darwin University’s newest city campus Danala, meaning ‘dillybag’ in the Larrakia language.
 
Country to Couture, Show 1: Carried by Our Matriarchs - From Legacy we Rise.

There is a rhythm carried by women.
It moves in the passing of knowledge from one pair of hands to another. In the quiet hum of sewing machines.
In the care, the teaching and carrying culture forward.
It lives in the gathering bush medicines, in healing and renewing.
Women who walk with wisdom between land and sea, have long gathered, made, healed and taught. Their lives are intertwined with Country and community, weaving culture into each day.
Carrying stories in their hands, knowledge in their voices, and culture in the quiet rhythm of making. They hold beauty, strength and ceremony, breathing life into practices carried quietly across generations.
This runway celebrates the artistry of women, their collaboration, their lore. An honouring of matriarchal strength and the grace of Ancestral knowledge moving through the sacred cycles of Blak women.

The featured collections include:
- Anindilyakwa Arts x Anna Reynolds
- Bábbarra Women's Centre
- Badu Art Centre
- The Mermaid Collective, Bobbi Lockyer x Skye Lockyer x Mali Isabel
- Jaymee-Lee Chaquebor
- LULUJARU
- MumRed
- Nagula Jarndu Designs
- Off The Plantation
- Waringarri Aboriginal Arts
- Women Of The Rivers (Art Centre - Arts Northern Rivers)
 
Tickets Here: https://0800.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/164880

Thanks To:
Country to Couture is presented by Indigenous Fashion Projects (IFP), a program of Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (DAAF) Foundation, supported by Country Road, the Northern Territory Government through Tourism and Events NT, and Charles Darwin University, with premium media partner Peppermint Magazine and ticketing partner Darwin Fringe Festival.

Learn more about Country to Couture here: https://www.ifp.org.au/events/country-to-couture/

And see what else is on in August here: https://daaf.com.au/daaf-2026/

Event Details
Sunday 2nd August 2026
Doors 6:00pm
Show Strictly Starts 7:00pm
Show finishes approx 8:15pm
Charles Darwin University, Danala Campus, 54 Cavenagh St, Darwin 

Photo: Kahlia Rogers wears pieces by Marnin Studio, Photo by Marley Morgan