PFW the Vanguard of Green
Portland Fashion Week takes sustainability seriously
Walking the walk we call it! Talk is for others. Lead by example and others will follow.
Our sustainable business practices qualify us for Gold Certified status with 52 sustainable objectives completed out of 59, giving us an 88.14 % cumulative score!
No other “fashion event, producer, or production’’ even comes remotely close!
It only took 15 long years for the world to catch up to us....
Since 2005 Portland Fashion Week has spear headed the sustainable fashion front!
Way back in 2005 when we began our ‘‘sustainable’’ initiatives we just called it ‘‘green fashion’’ and until very recently ‘‘sustainably’’ as in ‘‘sustainably produced’’ was spell checked, and quite often still is. Try it and see!
sus·tain·a·bly
/s?'stan?ble/
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adverb
in a way that can be maintained at a certain rate or level.
"a firm's ability to grow sustainably and profitably"
in a way that avoids the depletion of natural resources in order to maintain an ecological balance.
"an increasing emphasis on finding means of living sustainably"
In 2019 ‘‘sustainbly produced’’ became main stream and has become one of the most googled search terms regarding fashion.
Cheers to ‘‘sustainably’’ and sustainability in general!
Take a read from our friends at Fashion United for what we at Portland Fashion Week have been promoting now for over a decade and a half. Then read our insider posts for our numerous sustainable initiatives and practices which we hold dear to our heart! From tree plantings, carbon reductions, storm water protection and of course promoting ‘‘green fashion’’ we have been the vanguard for so many.