Miimi & Jiinda have officially unveiled Migaana, their first Day to Night collection, in Paris during Paris Fashion Week through the Australian Fashion Council's Global Gateways: Paris 2026 program.

Designed and made in Australia, the collection begins with an original artwork created by Gumbaynggirr artist and creative director Melissa Greenwood with her mother, Lauren Jarrett, before moving from canvas into substantial 19-momme silk.

For almost eight years, Greenwood, a Gumbaynggirr woman from the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, has built Miimi & Jiinda from a creative practice grounded in Country, culture, family and lived experience.

Original artwork has remained the starting point throughout. With Migaana, that practice moves into substantial silk, fluid silhouettes and more developed construction and finish.

For Greenwood, Migaana feels like both an evolution of the house and a return to what has always mattered most.

The collection takes its name from Migaana, a Gumbaynggirr word that speaks to revolving, rotating and moving through cycles. It draws from rhythms experienced within Country: tides moving in and out, seasons turning and light changing across the landscape.

For Greenwood, these are not simply visual references but part of a living relationship to Country. That sense of movement also runs through the collection's Day to Night idea: women moving between different roles, responsibilities and times of day while remaining connected to who they are.

At the heart of Migaana is an original artwork created collaboratively by Greenwood and her mother, Lauren Jarrett. Greenwood would begin the painting, Jarrett would spend time with it, and the work would move back and forth between them until it became one painting shaped through their shared process.

The exchange between generations gives physical form to one of Migaana's deepest ideas: movement does not have to mean disconnection.

The transition from canvas to silk changes the artwork. Light shifts across it, the fabric folds and drapes, and the body gives it movement. The artwork is not applied to fashion as decoration - it remains the source from which the garment emerges.

For Greenwood, the move into silk and more precise construction is about giving the stories a material expression that reflects the value and reverence she already places in them.

All Migaana garments presented in Paris are designed and made in Australia, allowing Greenwood and the team to remain closely involved in fit, finish and detail throughout the making process.

"Why shouldn't Indigenous culture be associated with luxury? The stories I paint are stories of Country. They are stories of family, culture and lived experience. I hold them with deep reverence. To me, those stories deserve a beautiful canvas," Greenwood said.

Migaana is also the first expression of Day to Night, an ongoing way of thinking about dressing that grew from Greenwood's own life as a mother, artist and founder moving between home, studio, work, travel, gathering and evening.

"Day to Night began with the idea that a woman shouldn't have to continually change who she is or how she dresses as she moves through the different moments of her life," she said.

"I wanted pieces that could move with her. Beautiful enough for an evening, effortless enough for the day, and considered enough to become pieces she returns to again and again."

The clothes are built around 100 per cent silk in a substantial 19-momme weight, chosen for its balance of structure and fluidity.

Bias-cut slips, fluid shirts, wide-leg trousers and wraps sit alongside refined tailoring and considered construction.

French-seam construction across many styles extends the same care to the inside of the garment. Across Ochre Country, Rosella Dusk and Sea & Sky, colour responds to light as the silk folds and moves with the body.

Migaana follows three consecutive Australian Fashion Week presentations for Miimi & Jiinda, including two years through Indigenous Fashion Projects followed by a New Generation presentation. In 2025, the house received the National Indigenous Fashion Awards Business Achievement Award.

Greenwood is currently in Paris with Migaana for Paris Fashion Week through the Australian Fashion Council's Global Gateways: Paris 2026 program, presenting at Galerie POGGI from the 30th September to 4th of October.

One year after Miimi & Jiinda's European showroom debut, the return places the collection in front of international buyers, editors and industry.

Continuing to progressively grow their presence and profit in the First Nations fashion industry, Miimi & Jiinda has become one of Australia's most popular First Nations fashion brands.

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