Indigenous fashion models, vendors still waiting for payment after working Sask. fashion show
CBC
Fashion designer Lauryn Cook says she wants to know why her models have yet to receive payment for working at an Indigenous fashion show held in Regina earlier this fall.
Models from around the Prairies participated in the FashioNATIVE runway show at the DoubleTree hotel and conference centre in Regina, held Oct. 10 to 12.
Cook, who owns High Heat Salon and Boutique in Saskatoon, brought 10 models to walk the runway.
She said the models travelled for hours from northern Saskatchewan and Edmonton to attend. They also paid for their own accommodations. In return, Cook said models were promised $100 per runway walk.
"Some of them walked eight times," Cook said. "That's $800."
The event's co-ordinator, Chelsa Racette, told CBC that the promised payment was always $100 per model, not per walk.
Crystal Dreaver, a model from Muskoday First Nation, told CBC that her agent said she'd get paid $100 for each time she walked the runway.
"There were no contracts for us," Dreaver told CBC. "But we were told that we were to be paid $100 per walk."
CBC obtained a copy of the designer's contract, which states each model would receive $100 for participating in the fashion show, but doesn't mention a set amount per walk.
Dreaver said she wasn't concerned about not being provided a contract, as fashion shows she's attended in the past have followed through with verbal promises.
"I didn't ask for any of that because most of the time when we are told something, that's what usually goes," Dreaver said. "We never actually had to deal with anything like that before."
Despite the confusion over how much money the models were set to receive, the designer's contract states models should have at least received $100 each.
A group chat between Dreaver and other models shows multiple people are still waiting to receive any money from the event.
Dreaver told CBC that the event was disorganized and made her rethink participating in any future events organized by Racette.
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