PFW Productions LLC

Our vision

To emphasize eco-responsible fashion, stage independent designers, and draw national attention to Portland’s unique intersection of Art, Commerce, and Sustainability.

Our secret

As a longtime hotbed of creativity for modern art, design, and urban development, Portland is being unveiled as fashion’s best-kept secret. On the runway since 2003, Portland Fashion Week is the second-longest running fashion week on the West Coast. PFW stages the freshest designers’ collections of the upcoming season through a week-long series of high-production runway shows at the hippest venues in downtown Portland, and exposes independent designers to style-savvy consumers, as well as buyers, and regional & national press.

Our specialty

WE INSPIRE AND ENERGIZE CITY LEADERS: PFW staged a green runway show of nationally-acclaimed sustainable designers at Portland City Hall with Portland’s Mayor, City Council and press in attendance, to educate policy-makers on eco-friendly practices in fashion and gain wider attention for this talented field --the first such initiative in the nation. Portland was honored with “The Country’s #1 Sustainable City” award at a Mayoral Conference in 2006, and we are proud to announce that several sustainable designers will be launching their collections at PFW 2007. PFW is collaborating with Portland City Hall to produce a Green Fashion Forum in 2007.

Our commitment

We make fashion week affordable for independent designers. By utilizing a business model based on corporate sponsorship, Portland Fashion Week transfers the benefits directly to designers. For a nominal fee, we produce and stage their entire show. We move fashion forward for a sustainable future. For the first time in the nation, Portland Fashion Week 2007 is making the production of the event itself sustainable – from construction of the actual runway with eco-friendly materials, to eco-safe styling products on models, to even using sustainable-certified hotels for our guests. PFW 2007 leads by example.