Another fashionable CFW chapter closes
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Creations by two designers Anushika (above) and Charini (below) who showcased their work at CFW
HSBC Colombo Fashion Week concluded its summer season as the biggest, under the theme ‘Celebrate Colombo’ in association with Sri Lanka Tourism. Hosted at Hilton Colombo, CFW, in its 14th year since inception showcased the progress it has made with the fashion design industry of Sri Lanka. In over a decade, with every season, CFW takes the fashion design industry to the next level with carefully planned year long development programmes which then get showcased in a week of activities.
Designer development has been its mainstay, an incubation programme that has evolved every year and impacted many young designers, the testimony of which was the Emerging Designer showcase on Day 1. Every year new designers come into the CFW fold and this system of development continues to bear fruit every season. Ten new and young designers showcased their collections after being mentored by CFW mentorship programme for 3 months.
“After 14 years it is hard to imagine a fashion design industry without CFW. By God’s grace this journey has steered and fathered the industry and continues to do so. I spend a lot of time with young and new designers, to get the next generation ready. Darshi was our first find in 2007, followed by others since then. Every designer who has shown at CFW in the last ten or so years has been impacted by our programmes. I have personally spent time with them at some point or the other, and every year a new lot comes and current lot becomes ‘not-so-new’. Every season is carefully planned with the development of fashion design industry at its base. We know where we are going this year and next. Nothing is done adhoc, everything is part of a plan. Bigger goals ahead,” says AjaiVir Singh, Founder and President of Colombo Fashion Week
The last event of CFW was the Designer pod on March 26, where all designer collections were on exhibit for retail. This was a starting point for the participating designers.
