Manitoba models, designer to appear at Paris Fashion Week [Video]

A double dose of Manitoba talent will storm the runways of Paris Fashion Week, wearing distinctly homegrown designs.

Madison Moore, who is Swampy Cree and a member of Opaskwayak Cree Nation, and Aaliyah Tait, a Winnipegger of Cree-Mi’kmaq and Trinidadian descent, will make their debuts at the womenswear spring-summer event next month.

“I’m super nervous, but I’m also very excited,” Moore told CTV News Winnipeg in an interview.

Moore and Tait will model designs from Ally’s Ribbons, a couture ribbon-work line created by Alyssia Sutherland, who is a member of Peguis First Nation.

Moore met the Manitoba designer just last May at the Manito Ahbee Festival’s Red Road Cultural Clothing showcase. She pulled her aside, wanting to know if she had plans this September.

“She asked me, ‘Are you wanting to travel across the world with me?’ And I looked at her like, ‘Yes, of course. How can I say no?'”

Madison Moore strikes a pose in an undated …