Fashion Pakistan, is one of the leading platform for Pakistani fashion designers. Fashion Pakistan has a long tradition of holding bi-annual fashion weeks, with the very first Fashion Pakistan Week. The council has continually looked to new ways to support Pakistan’s growing fashion industry.
The Fashion Pakistan Council (FPC) organizes 2 fashion weeks in a year, one as spring/summer fashion week, and the other as autumn/winter fashion week. And this year, council has successfully completed its 10 years.
This time Fashion Week will be for 2 days instead of 3 days. Because the council has decided to invest on quality instead of quantity. The dates for FPW Spring/summer 2017 are the 22nd and 23rd of February, 2017. The event will feature some of the country’s most renowned labels.
Fashion Pakistan, is one of the leading platform for Pakistani fashion designers. Fashion Pakistan has a long tradition of holding bi-annual fashion weeks, with the very first Fashion Pakistan Week, which held in 2010. Since then, the council has continually looked to new ways to support Pakistan’s growing fashion industry.
The council organizes 2 fashion weeks in a year, one as spring/summer fashion week, and the other as autumn/winter fashion week.
Winter in Pakistan represents an array of festivities, weddings, winter balls, and the general mood of celebration. Previously known as the Autumn Winter show, but this year’s FPW Winter Festive promised to showcase all the colours of Pakistani festive wear, ranging from luxury pret to bridal, and formal wear. So, this time council came up with a very bigger, exciting and even better fashion week, which held in Karachi on 28th, 29th, and 30th November 2015, in collaboration with Urdu1 as the exclusive event and media partner.
The designers carefully selected by Fashion Pakistan to participate in this year’s Winter Festive include some of the most prominent names in Pakistani fashion. In which Shehla Chatoor, Toni&Guy Trend Show (featuring Sania Maskatiya and Deepak Perwani), Ayesha Hashwani, TenaDurrani, Hisham Malik, Sana Safinaz, Wardha Saleem, Maheen Karim, Obaid Sheikh, Elan, Nida Azwer, FnkAsia, Deepak Perwani, Umer Sayeed, Zaheer Abbas, Delphi by Nida Tapal, Zainab Chottani, Faraz Manan and Nauman Arfeen. Also showcased for the first time at FPW was renowned couturier Nilofer Shahid, who closed the event with the grand finale.
Many celebrities and showbiz stars became the part of it. In which Ayesha Omar, Imran Abbas, Mahira Khan, Adeel Hussain, Shehryar Munawar Hareem Farooq, Syra Shahroz, Maya ali, Osama Khalid Butt, Ahsan Khan, Faysal Quraishi, Aijaz Aslam, Mehwish Hayat, Sanam Saeed, Sarwat Gillani, Sana Bucha, and Waqar Ali Khan were there among others.
Mehwish Hayat on ramp
Hareem Farooq on ramp
Singer Zoe Vicaji on ramp
Maya Ali and Osama Khalid Butt on ramp
Syra Shahroz on red carpet
Sanam Saeed on red carpet
Syra Shahroz and Palwasha Yousuf
Mahira Khan on ramp
Sana Bucha and Waqar Ali Khan on ramp
Mahira Khan, Shehryar Munawar and Adeel Hussain on ramp
Model Areeba Habib on red carpet
Imran Abbas and Syra Shahroz on ramp
Ahsan Khan and Cybil J. Chaudhry on ramp
Sarwat Gillani with Imran Abbas at backstage
Ayesha Omar on red carpet
Faysal Quraishi and Aijaz Aslam on ramp
Ayesha Omar on ramp
The event was managed by CKO Events Architecture, and backstage was managed by Production 021. Saba Ansari and Samiya Ansari of ‘Sabs’ served as the official styling partners for the event.
Show direction and choreography done by Frieha Altaf of Catwalk Event Management and Productions. Latitude CRS was again handled the event PR.
In the end, I would like to add statement of Ms. Wardha Saleem, CEO Fashion Pakistan, in which she said, “Fashion is a burgeoning industry in Pakistan, and adds immense value to our economy. Constant innovation and encouragement will not only boost the industry but also give headway to new talent in Pakistan.”
Sagar Samy 