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NIFFTY, Northcote Independent Fashion Festival combines fashion, music, food, wine and shopping to bring you a fashion festival like you’ve never seen or heard before!

Showcasing the eclectic mix of fashion available on High Street Northcote, a prominent shopping district in Melbourne’s inner north, NIFFTY is shining a light onto the alternative, independent, sustainable, vintage and popular fashion High Street has to offer.

The festival employs locals to model clothing that YOU can actually wear and buy on the day! Celebrating fashion as an accessible and essential mode of self and social expression, NIFFTY celebrates the beauty and spunk that is found everyday in the streets of Melbourne, rather than reinforce the ‘cookie cut ideal.’ 

Honouring the long standing love affair between fashion and music, NIFFTY has a stellar all female line-up playing on the cat walk, featuring Aluka, Abbie Cardwell and Kate Vigo. These lovely ladies of song will be decked out in Northcote fashion for their performances.

Leading us on this fantastical fashion adventure will be the ever fabulous Catherine Deveny. Giving us her (piss) take on fashion, Catherine is sure to get you thinking about fashion in a different light!

Alongside the event, will run a local fashion market place.

It will be everything you don’t expect from a fashion festival and some of what you do!

Discounts and special offers for early birds who get their festival program and present it to participating stores, cafes and restaurants over the festival weekend!