Colombo Fashion Week (CFW) curates experiential retail interaction through knowledge in a responsible way.
CFW curates retail collaborations with designers during fashion week to its private guests .
Every Garment presented at Colombo Fashion Week carries a Responsible Score.
CFW encourages every designer showing to adhere to responsible standards created by them for the Responsible meter. This is their effort as a platform to encourage responsibility in fashion.
The world today is burdened by the problem each garment brings forth to strain the environment and every fashion supply chain is crying out for a solution. In a bold move, Colombo Fashion Week (CFW) in association with the Responsible Fashion Movement (RFM), after months of research and behind-the-scenes work has come out with a specific action-oriented impact on each garment presented on the ramp, under a program titled Responsibility In Fashion.
‘Celebrate Colombo’ is a project to revive, restore and reinvigorate the tourism industry of Sri Lanka, the No. 1 ranked tourism destination of 2019. The aftermath of the Easter Sunday Attacks in April 2019 tested both the nation’s economy and unity. In creating a week-long festival that celebrated Colombo’s rich culture, this project focused on redirecting the domestic and international outlook of the city through 4 creative industries: art, music, fashion and film.
Celebrate Colombo is a destination promotion tourism-based event product that positively tunes the perception of the international media and travellers, showcasing Colombo as a vibrant and creative city, and this event product also enhances the experience of the travellers, having them enjoy Colombo more than they would have done before. The collaboration with the creative industries of Art, Food and Music makes the city more attractive to the modern traveller. The very creation of this festival was the first on-ground demonstration that there is peace and a return to normalcy after the Easter Sunday attacks. In this regard, this festival played a strategic role for Sri Lanka.
Celebrate Colombo was a collaborative effort between Colombo Fashion Week and Sri Lanka Tourism to showcase Colombo as a vibrant city with an active creative community. Celebrate Colombo took place from the 3rd to the 10th of August 2019.
Since its inception in 2003, the fashion development journey turns another leaf in taking the fashion design industry to the next level in 2019. Colombo Fashion Week popularly known as CFW, envisioned this journey at the beginning of the last 16 years
Colombo Fashion Week is a multi-pronged platform for various creative streams. One of the key focuses of Colombo Fashion Week and Swim Week Colombo is CFW Fashion Films, an initiative by CFW which creates a collaboration with a designer and a film director, who will capture a video which will function as an audio-visual representation of each designer’s collection and the inspiration behind it. Films are presented at the Fashion Films Festival where one director wins the Fashion Film Award.
Every season, Colombo Fashion Week partners with premier restaurants in the city to curate unique, limited edition menus and signature dishes, intended to provide attendees with an appetizing gastronomical experience.
Celebrating the diverse range of cuisines available in Colombo, Fashion and Food curates themed cuisines, special menus & wine tastings which are designed to entice individuals into Colombo’s plentiful offering of dining and nightlife and create experiences of fashion beyond the ramp
Celebrate Colombo 2019 featured an Art Exhibit, which brought together an unprecedented 45 established and emerging Sri Lankan artists to collaborate on a never-before-seen project which embodies the spirit of Sri Lanka.
The artists hailed from varying backgrounds, highlighting the diversity of our country. Each artist unleashed their creativity to bring to life themes of peace and freedom. The art industry came together in such a manner for the first time to express a strong voice of unity and peace.
CFW After Parties have evolved to engage guests with unique offerings and raise the bar over the years.
Colombo Fashion Week has a guest list only after party every season to end the week on a high note.
