Indigenous fashion festival held at Tkemlps for Red Dress Day [Video]

On the weekend of Red Dress Day, May 5, a Cree-Métis woman is holding a two-day Indigenous fashion festival in Kamloops, B.C., with designers each creating a red dress to raise awareness of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit-plus people (MMIWG2S+).

Kim Coltman has worked in the fashion industry since 1972, when she got her start as a model. She now uses the knowledge she’s gained to run Fashion Speaks International (FSI), a Tk̓emlúps (Kamloops)-based organization she started in 2015.

FSI’s Revolutions Red Dress Fashion Festival is set to run this Saturday and Sunday in the Northside Hangar at the Kamloops Airport.

The show will feature nine designers, according to the event website, all of whom Coltman said were tasked with designing a red dress for the show’s May 5 finale.

The Revolutions event will showcase collections from designers including Shannon Kilroy, Sierra William, Elizabeth Spike, and Arthur Paul. The event will also feature performances by the Cultural …