We invite you to join us as we share some of the fashion content, stories, and conversations from our community at our Open Day for the Global Fashioning Assembly 2024.

Come and engage with how we do our mahi (work), and to experience it first hand and in a real space. We are taking this as an opportunity to share the decolonising kaupapa (principles) of our museum model with a local audience and the international assembly.

Not only will we be hosting an in-person event on the 12th of October, but we will also be sharing the happenings of the day with the global GFA24 community on the 19th of October, 7-10pm NZST. Attendance is free, and you can register by following the link to the right. 

The New Zealand Fashion Museum is a digital first museum that provides a platform and umbrella for all things fashion in Aotearoa (New Zealand). With no fixed physical location or collection, its activities and stories are developed in response to the concerns of the day and the questions and needs of its audiences.

Our primary source for all content is the community. This makes for a collaborative and multi-vocal museum model, bringing together objects and knowledge held by individuals and by working with institutions like libraries, universities, and museums to share their collections, archives, and spaces.

Attendance is free, and we look forward to hosting a day of activities and experiences which share our processes and values with you all, as our contribution to the vast array of GFA24 events happening in person and online around the world.

More details about special guests and event timetable to be released soon, keep an eye out!

This event is supported by Auckland Council and the city centre targeted rate.

For more information about the Global Fashioning Assembly, and the other events that this global symposium is comprised of, head to the Eventbrite link listed to the right.

The Global Fashioning Assemby (GFA) is a biennial online gathering of local fashion coalitions from around the world to decenter and decolonise knowledge creation and sharing on body fashioning practices and heritages.

GFA was initiated in 2021 by the Research Collective on Decoloniality & Fashion (RCDF), a not-for-profit organisation registered in the Netherlands.