Native Fashion Week Announces 2025 Participating Designers

The Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA) Native Fashion Week announced its participating designers for the 2025 runways. This year’s show is in collaboration with the Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week (VIFW) to have designers represent Nations across the United States and Canada.

SWAIA Native Fashion Week will be held from May 7 through May 11, 2025, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Participating designer Sage Mountainflower (Ohkay Owingeh, Taos Pueblo, Diné) said that she is looking forward to debuting the Sage Mountainflower Ta a’n di’ Collection. Taa’nde is a Tewa word for ‘Spring’ and the collection will focus on the awakening bloom of Spring.

“The SWAIA Native Fashion Week is becoming a powerful platform where you can see the emergence of our cultural narratives through fashion and it’s exciting to be among the designers who get to showcase,” said Mountainflower. “I love that this event creates a wider public appreciation for Native Fashion as high art and is essential in changing the perception of Native fashion, and bringing it to the forefront of the fashion world. It’s another way to celebrate our creativity, indigenous beauty and our resilience.

In addition to Mountainflower, many other designers are participating, including:

April Allen (Inuit) | Stitched by April
Loren Aragon (Acoma Pueblo) | Towering House
Jeremy Donavan Arviso (Diné, Hopi, Akimel O’odham, and Tohono O’odham) I RVSO78
Kaylyn Baker (Northern Tutchone) | Kaylyn Baker Designs
Pam Baker (Squamish and Kwakwaka’wakw) | TOC Legends
Rebecca Baker-Grenier (kwakwaka’wakw and Squamish)
Peshawn Bread (Comanche/Kiowa/Cherokee) | House of Sutai
Vina Brown (Nuučaan̓uɫ and Haíłzaqv) | Copper Canoe Woman
Cheryl Fennell (Metis) | Snowfly
Lauren Good Day (Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara)
Lesley Hampton (Temagami First Nation)
Alex Manitopyes (Muskowekwan) | Sacrdthndr
Livia Manywounds (Tsuu T’ina Nation/Dene) | Dancing Storm Designs
Tishna Marlowe (Ethen Dene) | Dene Couture
Robyn McLeod (Métis/Dene)
Patricia Michaels (Taos Pueblo) | PM Waterlily
Sage Mountainflower (Ohkay Owingeh/Taos Pueblo/Diné) | Sage Mountain Flower
Randi Nelson (St’uxwtéws First Nation) | Randi Nelson Designs
Yolonda Skelton (Gitxsan) | SugIit Lukxs Designs
Kayla Smith (Standing Rock Sioux Tribe) | K Lookinghorse
Adrian Stevens & Sean Snyder (Sean Snyder: Navajo Nation/descendant of the Southern Ute Tribe | Adrian Stevens: Northern Ute/Shoshone-Bannock/San Carlos Apache) | Stevens & Snyder
Alyssia Sutherland (Ojibwe) | Ally’s Ribbons
Tierra Alysia Tapuro (Kashia Pomo/Filipino) | VIVIDUS by Tierra Alysia
Wabanoonkwe (Ojibwe) x Jennifer Younger (Tlingit)