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Aboriginal fashion creatives tour Europe to tell Australia's 'real story'

Shannon McGuire features at a catwalk show inside the Brussels Art and History Museum. (Supplied: Rob Hookey)

Members of an all-Aboriginal group of fashion creatives say a series of shows in Europe became an empowering — and sometimes confronting — opportunity to rectify foreign misconceptions about First Nations and Australian history.

The group of designers and models had been invited by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to hold fashion shows in a series of European cities.

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