About
A robust fashion platform, PFW is focused on showcasing outstanding GenNext talent and luxury brands to a distinguished target audience. It is rated as one of the biggest fashion extravaganzas of India featuring the best designers and the crème-de-la-crème of the society in full attendance.
Vision
Our Vision is to create an environment where tradition and luxury are brought onto a single platform enabling an inflection point that creates exquisite pieces of art while defining trends in Luxury Fashion.
Why
Having started off as a conventional fashion week, Pune Fashion Week (PFW) has over the years successfully transformed into one of India’s leading Luxury Fashion Weeks. The seven successful seasons of PFW have focused on establishing Pune firmly onto the fashion map of India and providing a platform for GenNext designers along with capturing the essence of Bharat and its interplay with the World Fashion and trends.
About the Founder
A serial Entrepreneur, not averse to taking risks, Badal has over the years built an interesting portfolio of investments and proprietary businesses in the real estate and lifestyle sectors. Under him the Badal Saboo Group has grown from being a pure Commodities player to emerging as a leading name in the world of Fashion, Real Estate Advisory and Hospitality.
PFW is one such establishment that brings together well-known International as well as Domestic Designers who are institutions by themselves and are profusely talented emerging names that need a sought-after platform, celebrities that endorse innovation in Luxury and Fashion, array of Industry specialists, Indispensable stakeholders and the curiously fashionable end-users that make PFW a success story each year.
In fashion, Badal has been instrumental in conceiving and building the Pune Fashion Week brand into a leading Indian Luxury Fashion Exhibition platform. He has also been a key participant in driving growth at the World Fashion Week, Korea Modelling Associations International talent discovery platform ‘Face of Asia’, Asia Model Festival and Nivedita Saboo Couture. Having grown an enviable portfolio of fashion showcasing platforms, Badal’s next venture in the space ‘Fashionable Bharat’ is focused on building social capital through an innovative NextGen sourcing and distribution model.
In Real Estate & Consulting, Badal has focused on the high end branded real estate segment and is credited with introducing rapidly growing globally renowned brands such as World Trade Centre, FTV Residences, Fendi Residences, Bentley Residences, Disney Homes in India.