Clothing The Gap co-founder and director Laura Thompson. Source: supplied.
Aboriginal-owned and -run streetwear brand Clothing The Gap has been up and running for less than a year, and has already amassed a 100,000-strong social media following, and evolved from an e-commerce store to bricks-and-mortar retail offering.
But for Laura Thompson, Clothing The Gap’s co-founder and director, and a Gunditjmari woman, this social enterprise was never only about selling a few T-shirts.
It’s about giving First Nations Australians a voice and an online space to occupy, and amplifying their voices, while also educating non-Indigenous people.
Never has that been more evident than now, in the run-up to January 26, or so-called Australia Day.