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World Fashion Week® (WFW) serves as the global voice of Fashion, as “Olympic Style” platform for the national fashion industries around the world. As an internationally reaching event and network for trade and fashion professionals, the annual event provides a forum for worldwide exposure and recognition, with a major role in contributing to the harmonious growth and development of the global fashion industry.

With its unique vision and innovation, WFW is a leading global trade event and milestone for the international fashion community. WFW annual event refresh a new global face and development of local, national and international fashion sectors, a new meeting roof for buyers, traders, international media and representatives from the world´s creative industries, ensuring the global reach of its activities.

WFW recognizes the immense talent raising from all corners of our world, to strive and provide new opportunities for the global fashion industry, leading and upcoming fashion designers, its global reach and expansion, raising awareness for social and human development, becoming a major global fashion movement, leading to world peace and economic growth.

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Major progress towards Millennium Development Goals, but the most vulnerable are left behind, UN report says.

Significant strides have been made towards the Millennium Development Goals, yet reaching all the goals by the 2015 deadline remains challenging, as the world's poorest are being left behind, according to the MDG Report 2011, the UN's annual progress report. "The MDGs have helped lift millions of people out of poverty, save countless children's lives and ensure that they attend school," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. "At the same time, we still have a long way to go in empowering women and girls, promoting sustainable development, and protecting the most vulnerable." Read the press materials here.

Watch or read the statement of the Secretary-General for the launch of the UN Millennium Development Goals Report 2011 in Geneva on 7 July 2011.

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Give your Light to the World

Building Runways of Opportunities to the World

World Fashion Week® will be held in the City of New York in 2012, featuring leading and upcoming fashion designers and professionals in the fashion industry, representing their nation of origin from over 30 nations, with the objective to positioning these artisans in the global market. WFW NYC 2012 will introduce to buyers, retailers and international media, in a celebration of cultural diversity expressed through the artistic and social movement of Fashion.

World Fashion Week encourage the expansion of world fashion while promoting international fashion business relationships and understanding. It´s Mission is to foster the increased participation in the world fashion forum by developed and developing countries alike, particularly with a view to better integrate all countries into the World Fashion, sharing a commitment for Corporate Social Responsibility.

Furthermore, WFW´s humanitarian voice is to globally expand the potential power of fashion; as a tool for poverty eradication, further develop economies, promote Corporate, Environmental and Social Responsibility within the fashion and textile industry, fostering human development, education and social integration, solidifying the vision and humanitarian voice ¨Give your Light to the World¨

World Fashion Week defends the free expression of fashion as one of the principal cultural identities of any community, considering the richness and creative value that we find in the diverse and multicultural world in which we live.