March 25, 2024
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4min
Colombo, 25th March 2024: TikTok made its debut entrance into Sri Lanka’s dynamic fashion landscape by collaborating with Colombo Fashion Week (CFW) as its official Social Media Partner. This partnership marked a milestone for both TikTok and CFW, as they joined forces to celebrate creativity, diversity, and innovation in the local fashion industry through #FashionTok. […]

March 18, 2024
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5min
Colombo Fashion Week 2024, presented by Mastercard, returns March 6th-9th,  showcasing the next generation of Sri Lankan fashion talent. From a shortlist of 22 designers, 11 rising Sri Lankan designers have made it to the final round – Gayanth  Karunaratne, Devapriya Halwala, Prathibha Liyanarachchi, Mevini Amarasinghe,  Navodya Janith, Maleesha Perera, Akash Paranavitharana, Chihiro Fernando, Aysha […]

February 26, 2024
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Hosted across three hotels to make Colombo come alive Colombo Fashion Week (CFW) returns from March 6th to 9th 2024, for its 21st edition, marking a significant milestone and promising a future brimming with innovation for the fashion industry of Sri Lanka. This year the platform focuses on multiple locations around Colombo to make the […]

November 28, 2022
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4min
      28th November 2022, Colombo: Vision Care, Sri Lanka’s largest vision and eyewear solutions provider, has extended its 8-year partnership with the Colombo Fashion Week (CFW) to its ninth year by once again collaborating as the “Fashionable Eyewear Partner” of CFW Luxury Edition held at the Galle Face Hotel recently. The Luxury Edition […]

September 28, 2022
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7min
      Bank funds best five upcoming CFW designers to support business development As CFW approaches 20 years of developing and showcasing Sri Lankan fashion, another progressive step has been taken, in spite of the present challenges, towards providing resources to high potential emerging designers to support their entrepreneurial design journeys through CFW Accelerate. […]

February 21, 2022
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7min
  Five high-potential designers to be selected in 2022 With HSBC Colombo Fashion Week 2022 (CFW) scheduled for the end of February 2022, the organization has announced the launch of the HSBC Fashion Fund for Emerging Designers, as part of its Emerging Designer programme. Commencing this year, and going forward, five high-potential emerging designers will […]

April 20, 2021
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      Sri Lanka’s menswear fashion icon Fouzul Hameed, unveiled his exotic “Global Wedding Collection” at the Colombo Fashion Week, the 2021 edition of Sri Lanka’s most prestigious fashion event that was held across 3 days at the Shangri-La Hotel. The Global Wedding Collection is about celebrating life and was inspired by the rich, […]


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