Colombo Fashion Week’s Luxury Edition opened November 17, 2022

The effort is to showcase Sri Lanka’s talented fashion designers and the event featured luxury, occasion, and bridal trousseau segments by eight designers who had created their collections.The latest edition has emphasised on looking for resources available in Sri Lanka to create garments by changing the narrative and manufacturing materials available in the crisis-hit island nation.Sri Lanka’s fashion industry is facing a lack of young professionals since 2019 as many aspiring individuals are moving away due to the challenges faced by them following the Easter Sunday attack, the pandemic, and an unprecedented economic crisis. The industry has been in the process to improve globally lucrative ventures in the last decade, but the challenges have reversed the gains. A lot of young designers are going into big apparel companies. Sri Lanka was predominantly influenced by apparel manufacturing and so Colombo Fashion Week wants to rediscipline the whole cycle, inspire youngsters to take to fashion and take to design and give them the curriculum and the work to give them the right mindset.Economic crisis has hit the imports of fashion designing materials with only a few materials available within Sri Lanka like accessories and fabrics. Imports of nearly 50 percent of the designing materials have been banned as the country’s central bank wants to save dollars in the face of an acute foreign exchange shortage.