Julie Grenier & Victoria Okpik

Julie Grenier is a multidisciplinary artist from Kuujjuaq (Nunavik, QC), currently living in the Montreal area. She specializes in beadwork and traditional as well as contemporary sewing. Julie has collaborated with other artists on many projects, including the creation of a traditional caribou fur amauti that is on permanent exhibit at the Museum of Man in Paris, and a contemporary sealskin arnauti that was acquired by the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq for their permanent collection. More recently, Julie's work was worn on the red carpet during the Emmy Awards 2024 and at the Polaris Prize Gala 2024. Among her many accomplishments, Julie Grenier designed and created the beadwork embroidery of the Governor General of Canada, Mary Simon's dress in 2021.

Victoria Okpik is a designer originally from Quaqtaq, Nunavik, currently residing in Montreal, QC. She was the first Inuk to graduate from LaSalle College’s Fashion Design Program in 1999, and worked as a seamstress and designer for 19 years with Nunavik Creations, a Makivik Corporation-owned company until its 2017 closure. Between the closure of Nunavik Creations and the founding of her own label, Okpik Designs in December 2019, Okpik continued to have no shortage of high- profile customers. In 2018, she was commissioned by Canadian astronaut and physician David Saint-Jacques to create a sealskin bracelet to accompany Saint-Jacques on a 2019 mission to the International Space Station. She is also the designer behind the jacket and dress worn by the Governor General of Canada, Mary Simon,  at her swearing in ceremony in 2021.