Threading New Ground
Fashion can be many things — aspiration, armour, esthetic. But in the hands of designers like Alex Manitopyes (SACRD THNDR) and Thea Thomas (Threads By Thea), it becomes something more: a way to carry story, honour ancestry and reimagine what contemporary Indigenous fashion looks like on the body.
In this episode, we enter the studios of two Calgary-based designers who are reshaping the landscape of Indigenous fashion through both leaning in and leaning out of the lines that tradition, identity and industry try to draw around them.
We explore how their work blurs the line between ceremony and runway, where couture meets community, and how garments become vessels of both protection and power. This is a story about threads that weave through culture, kinship and creativity, emerging into something fierce and unapologetically new.
Starring: Thea Thomas, Alex Manitopyes
Host: Adora Nwofor @statuesse
Production House: FOREIGNERZ @sansfuccs
Director: Vince Raquel @vinceraquel
Producer: Eman Safadi, CONTRA
Director of Photography: Vince Raquel @vinceraquel
Second Camera: Jevan Bailey
Editor: Vince Raquel @vinceraquel
Assistant Editor: Eman Safadi, CONTRA
Colourist: Vince Raquel
Unit Photographer: Jevan Bailey
Sound Design: Vince Raquel
Location Sound Mixer: Jevan Bailey, Vince Raquel
Title Sequence: Cole Edwards @colee.design
Music:
ceo – Prod. Stepjayc
“HA” – Prod. C12
10MONTHS – Prod. 8een
PACIFIC – metoprahh
9am – prod.WaVyMason
KNOT – Prod. Vrdnyn
Empathy – Prod kevenndarcy
Black & Blue – yogic beats
FRESCA – Prod by remdolla
Fashion Week – lxnelybeats
ALAMEDA ST. – Prod. 8een
About the Living a Creative Life Web Series
Calgary Arts Development launched this web series to celebrate the thousands of Calgarians who are living creative lives in our city.
The Living a Creative Life web series, hosted by local activist and comedian Adora Nwofor and produced by Foreignerz, will release a new episode each month.
Have a story to share? Email us at submissions@calgaryartsdevelopment.com.
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