Australian Indigenous Fashion Week launched in April 2014 at the Sydney Town Hall. The event's organizer, All The Perks, is currently in liquidation with 400,000 Australian dollars (about $343,000) and in debt 285,000 Australian dollars (about $244,0000). WWD reported that the money is owed to unsecured creditors, according to liquidator Frank Lo Pilato.
AIFW showcased 20 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses working across fashion, accessories, textiles, furniture and crafts.
'In terms of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, the mediums have been visual - hieroglyphics and landscapes, sculptures and canvas,' Krystal Perkins, All The Perks director, told Business of Fashion back in April.
'The international community knows that aesthetic, the style of our paintings and art. What we're doing is trying to nurture the next level, which is textile design, fashion design and the manufacturing of fashion and wearable accessories.'
Chic Management represents model Samantha Harris, who acted as the face of the event, and is one of the owed creditors.
In April, Perkins told WWD that she hoped to produce a group indigenous show for the 20th anniversary edition of IMG's Mercedes Fashion Week Australia, which will run from April 12-16, 2015 at Sydney's Carriageworks.
An IMG Fashion representative recently told WWD that the company has no current plans to include any special indigenous content in 2015.
This is the second business disaster in a year for Perkins. Her old company owes creditors 495,618 Australian dollars (about $421,275), according to an investigation by the Office of the Registrar of Aboriginal Corporations. Arrulka Business Aboriginal Corporation produced the Mbantua Festival in Alice Springs in October 2013.
Leading up to the launch of AIFW, participating designers spent about a year and a half being tutored by former Sass & Bide designer Sophie Nixon as part of a program at Sydney's Whitehouse School of Design. During this program, designers worked to create the collection they showed at the event.
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