Tbilisi Fashion Week

Tbilisi Fashion Week
Model walks the runway at Tbilisi Fashion Week 2012
Genrefashion catwalk shows, clothing and fashion exhibitions, and surrounding events
Frequencybiannually
Location(s)Tbilisi, Georgia
Inaugurated2009
FounderTako Chkheidze
Websitetbilisifashionweek.com

Tbilisi Fashion Week, or TFW (Georgian: თბილისის მოდის კვირეული, romanized: tbilisis modis k'vireuli) is a Georgian fashion week in its capital city of Tbilisi. TFW hosts industry professionals twice a year, in Spring and Fall.[1][2] TFW was established in 2009 during Tbilisoba festival.[3]

TFW is a fashion hub in the Caucasus which maintains the fashion industry development and introduces new faces and exports Georgian fashion production.[4][5][6][7]

Georgia's fashion industry, TFW and Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tbilisi have garnered international attention following the success of home-grown talent designers like David Koma, and more importantly Demna Gvasalia of luxury brand Balenciaga and his own brand Vetements.[8] Tbilisi is now dubbed as one of the "fashion capitals of Eastern Europe".[9][10]

Locations

TFW keeps experimenting with hosting fashion venues on different locations all over the city, from museums or art galleries, nightclubs like Bassiani to Old Tbilisi streets.[11]

See also

References

  1. ^ Tbilisi Fashion Week Reuters November 21/22, 2010
  2. ^ Marc Bouwer to join fashion designers in Tbilisi Fashion Week China Daily
  3. ^ (in Georgian) ხვალ კომპანია „ჯეოფეშენის“ პრეზენტაცია გაიმართება ინტერნეტ.გე
  4. ^ (in Italian) Moda Made in Georgia: belle scoperte alla fashion week di Tbilisi Glamour.it
  5. ^ Critics Brand Tbilisi Fashion Week a Success Archived 2013-12-03 at the Wayback Machine The FINANCIAL
  6. ^ (in Russian) Tbilisi Fashion Week ELLE.ua
  7. ^ Tbilisi's term as fashion capital CNTV
  8. ^ The Week From Hyères to Mercedes-Benz: Fashion Week Tbilisi Dec 11, 2018
  9. ^ Silver, Dena The New York Observer Georgia Just Might Be the Fashion Capital of Eastern Europe 12/05/16
  10. ^ Paton, Elizabeth The New York Times A New Fashion Hub? Eastern Europe Nov, 12, 2017
  11. ^ Bobila, Maria With the Industry's Attention on Tbilisi, Can Georgia's Fashion Scene Finally Go Global? Nov 13, 2018
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