Portland Fashion Week * Speaking Engagement at Magic * Farm Tour 2006 * Paris Fashion Week * Project Las Vegas * London Fashion Week *
Portland Fashion Week
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.
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. This show promises even more green runway bests and sustainable styles.
On Tuesday October, 23, 2007 come and see Del Forte Denim’s™ hottest Spring line yet! 2008 promises to be another fashionable year with new fabrics, amazing new denims and the same impeccable design you have grown to love from Del Forte Denim™.
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Portland Fashion Week Oct 19-24, 2007 The Organic Exchange and the Organic Trade Association has invited Tiera Del Forte to give a presentation on “Green and the Bottom Line” at the MAGIC Marketplace trade show which takes place August 27 to 30, 2007 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The seminar will run from 12 noon to 2 p.m. on Tuesday, August 28, 2007. The panel Tierra is speaking on will focus on the burgeoning organic fiber apparel market, challenges and opportunities in establishing wholesale and retail lines, and how and why organic apparel is being heralded by consumers and the media. In Tierra’s own words: “I wanted to achieve my dream of creating my own premium denim line while protecting the environment and the farmers. One step that we can take to reduce the strain on the environment is to use fabric that is grown without chemical pesticides or insecticides. I am able to source beautiful, finely woven stretch denim made with 100 percent organically grown cotton. Organic is win-win for everyone. Customers love it, ecologically responsible mills get rewarded, organic farms profit, and I get to feel good about the fabric I use. Aside from being kind to the planet, the denim I’ve chosen is unbelievably soft and has the best recovery of any fabric I’ve ever used.” Thursday, October 19, 2006 A one-day tour of the San Joaquin Valley that challenged our perceptions about what agriculture is and what it could become. Organized by the Sustainable Cotton Project. In mid October, when cotton was being harvested and farms throughout the state were at the height of activity, The Sustainable Cotton Project offered a one-day tour. Visitors traveled a central loop through the San Joaquin Valley, gaining a behind-the-scenes look at the many sides of conventional, biologically intensive pest management (BioIPM), and organic cotton production. Del Forte Denim partners with the Sustainable Cotton Project to help its efforts to educate farmers and the public about sustainable and organic cotton farming. Del Forte Denim is please to announce our booth number for PRÊT À PORTER PARIS® Please come by and meet Designer/Found Tierra Forte in Hall 7-3 booth A-352 in the “So Ethic” tradeshow. Today, as for each season, PRÊT À PORTER PARIS®reconfirms its international attractiveness, its power of seduction and its rank as the key international fashion event. PRÊT À PORTER PARIS® – everyone goes! From retailers to « fashion addicts » and of course journalists from both the French and international press. Veritable nerve centre of fashion, PRÊT À PORTER PARIS® positions itself as a HUB for connecting, transmitting and diffusing all the latest fashion information. LEADING FASHION TRADE FAIR IN PARIS February 14-16, 2007 in the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. Called “a major port of call for trend-seeking buyers” by the New York Times, Project Las Vegas is a must-see for all true denim connisures. Eco-fashion was on everyone’s lips in 2006, so come to our booth and see how to bring it to your customers in 2007! Meet Founder/Designer Tierra Forte on the Thursday, Feb. 15th of the event. Launched in 2003 and held bi-annually in New York and Las Vegas, PROJECT is the foremost premium and contemporary global tradeshow where the best of the best gather to show, buy, network and define next year’s trends. PROJECT paved the way for this reinterpretation of and the demand for the casual wardrobe and nurtured designers both big and small all the while. What started out as a showcase of 50 brands in 2003 is now a staggering 600 plus and features the entire lifestyle by including both leaders and newcomers in men’s, women’s, kids and accessories. Domestic Sales Agent ph. 213.430.9114 email: Missy@delforte.com London Fashion Week- Spring Summer Season! Del Forte Denim will be among the labels exhibited at Estethica, an ethical space within the Designers Exhibition at London Fashion Week 12th to 15th February, 2007, entirely devoted to the best in eco-sustainable contemporary fashion. Come visit us in our booth ES-10 located within the London Fashion Week official tent at the Natural History Museum, London SW3, Estethica will be a show of 10- 12 selected designers’ RTW Womens and Accessories S/S2007 collections. Within the framework of a simple, intelligent, environmentally friendly independent space, Estethica aims to position ethical fashion within the industry’s mind as no longer a fringe statement, proving that it has creative and commercial power as well as its ethical commitment. London is rapidly becoming the European capital for sustainable fashion, with a sophisticated network of like minded labels. Specialized high-fashion eco-retailers are beginning to make an impact and the press is interested in all things sustainable. Public sensitivity and consumer demand for ecological design is at an all time high. UK Sales Agent
Speaking Engagement at Magic
Farm Tour 2006
Paris Fashion Week
60,000 sqm, 4 days to walk it all, 1,500 labels, 50 participating countries, 42,000 visitors of which 41% come from Europe, Russia, America or Japan.Project Las Vegas
Missy Arko
Fille Showroom
Cooper Design Space
860 S. Los Angeles Street, Suite 316
Los Angeles, CA 90014
fx. 213.430.9115London Fashion Week
February 12-16, 2007
Jocelyn Whipple
T: 01273 683 143
M: 07961 848 406
jocelyn@delforte.com
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