About World Fashion Week®
WFW's Story
Since 2003, World Fashion Week® honor the outstanding contribution and lifetime achievements of fashion icons across five continents that are dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of fashion, to further creative leadership, artistic, technical and social achievement towards a sustainable global fashion industry.
As an internationally acclaimed event and network for trade and fashion professionals, the event provides a forum for worldwide exposure and recognition, with a major role in contributing to the harmonious growth and development of the global fashion industry, working towards the greater good of harnessing and supporting relationships to keep the global fashion industry sustainable and unprejudiced.
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World Fashion Week® (WFW) is the premier international event celebrating the art and business of sustainable fashion. By uniting designers, brands, and fashion enthusiasts worldwide, WFW serves as a global platform for innovation, showcasing the latest trends and fostering cross-cultural exchange within the global fashion industry. With a steadfast commitment to sustainable development, WFW continues to shape the future of fashion for generations to come.
WFW's Mission
Our mission at World Fashion Week is promote a sustainable global fashion industry, by presenting eco-friendly couture and RTW collections from over 100 countries, a trade event focus in empowering women and children in Africa, with aim in reducing preventable child mortality. We believe that everyone deserves access to education and fashion that is both trendy and affordable.
To empower women through fashion. We believe that fashion is not just about looking good, but feeling confident and comfortable in your own skin. We strive to showcase clothing that is not only stylish but also sustainable, using eco-friendly materials and ethical manufacturing practices.
Helping the shape of fashion's sustainable future
With a major role in contributing to the harmonious growth and development of the global fashion industry, working toward the greater good of harnessing and supporting relationships to keep the global fashion industry sustainable and unprejudiced.
As an internationally acclaimed event and network for trade and fashion professionals, the annual event provides a forum for worldwide exposure and recognition, where leading and emerging fashion designers from around the world participate in an elaborate showcase of world fashion and trade, celebrating cultural diversity, while promoting world tourism and lifestyle Destinations.
This worldwide wave of promotion, awareness and action for WFW and its International Sponsors will also promote global unity, development, social, corporate and environmental responsibility, especially focused on the eradication of poverty and the empowerment of women in developing countries, promoting unity and global peace.
An innovative and historic event showcasing a diverse variety of cultures, glamour and creative talent, the World Fashion Week® will generate visual opportunities that will resonate with audiences all over the world.
A milestone for the global fashion industry, where leading and emerging fashion designers from around the world, will participate in an elaborate showcase of world fashion and trade, celebrating cultural diversity, expressed by an artistic dimension of the fashion design discipline.
WFW annual event projects a new global face and development of local, national and international fashion sectors, a new meeting roof for designers, buyers, traders, international media and representatives from the world´s creative industries, ensuring the global reach of its activities, opening international trade avenues for all its participants, while promoting world tourism and lifestyle destinations.
WFW Philosophy
At World Fashion Week, we are more than just an event to generate fair trade - we are a global family. Our team is made up of professional and passionate individuals from around the world who share a love for sustainable fashion and a commitment to providing an exceptional positive change to our planet.
WFW recognizes the immense talent rising from all corners of our world, providing new opportunities for leading and upcoming fashion designers to breach into the international market.
WFW´s global reach and expansion, and its continuous awareness for social and human development, makes WFW a major global fashion movement, leading to economic growth and sustainable world peace.
Fashion is quintessentially global industry, exemplifying more than any other industry, contributing from international trade to cultural understanding, promoting tourism and lifestyles destinations, from poverty eradication by the empowerment of women, to generating employment opportunities, access to education, health, stability, investment and economic growth, advancing and promoting a more harmonious and attractive world.
Clothing manufacturing is one of the largest traditional sources of industrial employment across the world. Fashion is a driving force that makes a great impact in our economies and every day it affects billions of people around the globe.
Welcome to World Fashion Week®
WORLD FASHION EXHIBITION
WORLD FASHION EXHIBITION
WORLD FASHION EXHIBITION
World Fashion Exhibition® (WFE), Presented by the World Fashion Week®, advocates for cultural exchange and social development around the world, moving towards to a sustainable and fair global fashion industry, celebrating cultural diversity and understanding.
WORLD FASHION FORUM
WORLD FASHION EXHIBITION
WORLD FASHION EXHIBITION
World Fashion Forum® welcome and works with “International Honorary Speakers‘ and “World Fashion Ambassadors ̈ on a variety of labels around the world, to increase public awareness of Peace and sustainability through Fashion and of WFW’s work promoting those goals.
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World Fashion Forum® welcome and works with “International Honorary Speakers‘ and “World Fashion Ambassadors ̈ on a variety of labels around the world, to increase public awareness of Peace and sustainability through Fashion and of WFW’s work promoting those goals.
Since celebrities began working with WFW mission, they have helped sway government policies on behalf of fashion industry, publicize fashion industry's issues around the globe and provide with help for World Fashion Week's supported programs such as World Fashion Exhibition, World Fashion Forum, World Fashion Photography, World Fashion University & International Beneficiary Foundations among other initiatives.
World Fashion Week® defends the free expression of fashion as one of the principal cultural identities of any community, considering the richness and creative value that we find in the diverse and multicultural world in which we live.
WORLD FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY
WORLD FASHION EXHIBITION
WORLD FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY
World Fashion Photography® is a global community of photographers, including global competitions and exhibitions taking place around the world, embracing cultural understanding through the art and science of photography, with the theme "Fashion for Life"
Social Responsibility
Benefits in Hosting WFW
Social Responsibility
Social Responsibility
Fashion as a tool to improve the world
Our mission is to globally expand the power of fashion; as a tool of fighting poverty, further develop economies and implementing Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Business principles. Within the fashion and textile industry, fostering human development, education and social integration, solidifying the vision "Give your Light to the World", supporting the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, UN Global Compact, among many other international foundations, such as Art of Living Foundation, Cooperating World, etc.
End Poverty and Hunger; Universal Education; Gender Equality; Child Health; Maternal Health; Combat HIV/AIDS; Environmental Sustainability; Global Partnership.
From manufacturing to the runway, the handling of fashion goes through the hands of the poorest of the poor as well as the ones most fortunate.
Multicultural World
Benefits in Hosting WFW
Social Responsibility
Multicultural
From the union of persons
World Fashion Week® defends the free expression of fashion as one of the principal cultural identities of any community, considering the richness and creative value that we find in the diverse and multicultural world in which we live.
Collectively we can work to make the different dimension of the fashion process more sustainable and fair. Hence, fashion will make a necessary, deeper impact for the betterment of the full world.
World Fashion Week® honor the outstanding contribution and lifetime achievements of fashion icons across five continents that are dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of fashion, to further creative leadership, artistic, technical and social achievement within the global fashion industry.
Benefits in Hosting WFW
Benefits in Hosting WFW
Benefits in Hosting WFW
The WFW International Committee in collaboration with the WFW Executive Board, will have the final decision on which countries and cities will be given the honor of becoming a World Fashion Week® Host City.
Governments of several participating countries have already proposed as candidate cities in hosting the event.
There are a multitude of benefits for a nation hosting future World Fashion Week ®, as it provides a unique opportunity for the country to develop world-class facilities, enabling the country to host future first rate events. These venues will also provide an inspirational training ground for future generations of designers and brands.
As proven by other global events, World Fashion Week ®will generate opportunities across the entire job market, which in turn, will be significant benefit for the host country´s economy. It will also provide a huge boost for the tourism industry. Following an event of this stature, it is common to see an increase in the number of visitors to the country by 10-40%. It also helps to secure an improved image as well as raise the city´s and country´s profile as a tourist destination.
Economic impact is understandably one of the key factors taken into account by local authorities when assessing whether or not to bid for an event, and an array of research strongly demonstrates the significant financial benefits that result from major events.
However, a global "Mega Event" is also an opportunity for a nation to stage an inspirational vision that capture the imagination of people around the world, leaving a lasting legacy, for the generation to come.