ABOUT CAFW
FASHION HAS A STORY. WE GIVE IT A RUNWAY
EST. 2025 · CALIFORNIA
California Fashion Week is a fashion platform built around empowerment, inclusivity, and visibility. We believe fashion is more than what walks down the runway. Behind every collection is a designer with a vision. Behind every model is an individual with a story. Behind every brand is a reason it was created.
CAFW exists to bring those stories forward. Through elevated runway experiences, meaningful storytelling, and intentional representation, California Fashion Week creates a space where designers, models, brands, and creatives are not only seen, they are recognized.B ecause fashion becomes more powerful when we know the story behind it.
A NEW ERA IN FASHION...
Fashion has the ability to change the way someone sees themselves.
The right garment can create confidence. California Fashion Week celebrates individuality.
A runway can give someone the courage to be seen. There is no single body, background, age, identity, or path that defines who belongs in fashion.
A platform can transform an emerging designer’s dream into something tangible. California Fashion Week was built around that belief.
We bring luxury, fashion, and wellness together to create experiences that feel elevated, intentional, and empowering, where how you feel matters just as much as how you look.
We create experiences designed to empower the people on both sides of the runway, from the designer presenting a collection for the first time to the model stepping into the spotlight and the person watching who finally sees someone they recognize themselves in.
We don’t want people leaving CAFW simply remembering what they saw. We want them remembering how it made them feel.
OUR VISION
A Lasting West Coast Legacy
California Fashion Week is designed to grow beyond a single event or city. Our vision is to create a generational fashion platform that travels the California coast, connecting communities and creatives through a consistent, elevated runway experience that evolves over time while maintaining its core values.
Luxury With Purpose & Movement
We aim to redefine luxury as something intentional, values-driven, and meaningful. Every show, collection, and environment is curated with care, ensuring fashion is presented not just beautifully, but with depth, thoughtfulness, and respect for the creative process.
Empowerment Through Experience
At the heart of California Fashion Week is empowerment. We strive to create safe, elevated environments where designers, models, and creatives feel supported, confident, and inspired, allowing them to fully express their work, their identity, and their vision through the experience itself.
Fashion as Immersive Design
Our vision is to move beyond traditional runway formats by transforming fashion shows into immersive experiences. Through the integration of movement, music, environment, and storytelling, California Fashion Week presents fashion as part of a larger design narrative, one that is felt, remembered, and shared.
THE PEOPLE SHAPING CAFW
California Fashion Week is led by entrepreneurs, creatives, designers, and storytellers who believe fashion has the power to connect and empower people.
Founder & Executive Director
MIA LAREN
Founder of Curvora®, a dance fitness movement brand centered on hip mobility, confidence, and empowerment.
Director
HANA MACKENZIE
Founder of Curated, a high-end marketing agency specializing in luxury branding, creative strategy, and elevated brand experiences.
Lead Designer
LIZBETH
Lead Designer of Curvora, bringing the brand’s feminine, elevated vision to life through fashioN, and visual direction.
