A fresh new year means a new calendar full of exciting fashion events to look forward to! Each year brings new trends, one-of-a-kind exhibitions, and revolutionary releases. To help keep you updated and prepared for your trip or virtual viewing, we’ve compiled a list of the best fashion events to attend in 2024. There’s a lot to look forward to!
Fashion Events in 2024
JANUARY
Pitti Immagine Uomo
January 9-12
Milan Fashion Week Men’s Fall/Winter
January 12-16
Paris Fashion Week
January 16-January 24
Paris is one of the cities that make up the “Big Four” fashion weeks around the world. PFW is a series of designer presentations held biannually, with spring/summer and autumn/winter events held each year.
Miami Fashion Week
January 24-28
“Statement Sleeves” Exhibition
January 24-August 25 @ The Museum at FIT
This unique showcase features the works of designers such as Balenciaga, Tom Ford, Schiaparelli, and Vivienne Westwood. It focuses on the transformative and impactful effects of statement sleeves on different types of garments.
Paris Haute Couture Week
January 22–25
Haute Couture is the creation of exclusive custom-fit clothing. The artistic event happens biannually in Paris, France, with spring/summer and autumn/winter events.
Galerie Dior: Rotating Exhibits
Ongoing
The newest installation at the house’s art and fashion exhibition space in Paris has unveiled a new series showcasing the relationship between fashion and feminism. Focussing on the exchange between Dior and the women who inspire and inform fashion, the exhibition will run throughout the year and promises an evolving display of couture and artistic nuance.
“Women Dressing Women“ Exhibition
Now-March 3
The Costume Institute’s Fall 2023 exhibit will carry over into the new year at the Met. The exhibition focuses on female fashion designers and creators from 1910 to the present day. Showcasing work from more than seventy womenswear designers, be sure to see it while it lasts!
FEBRUARY
Copenhagen Fashion Week
January 29–February 2
Copenhagen Fashion Week is an international fashion event held twice a year in Copenhagen. It’s Scandinavia’s only fashion week, taking place biannually in January/February and August. Each season, Copenhagen welcomes esteemed press, buyers, and influencers to four days of shows, presentations, and other events.
MODA
February 4-7
Moda is the tradeshow that brings fashion to life in the heart of the UK. Each season, MODA gathers an industry-leading line-up of womenswear, accessories, and footwear brands from the UK and around the world.
Berlin Fashion Week
February 5–8 & July 1-4
Berlin Fashion Week, also known as Berliner Modewoche, is a fashion week held biannually in the progressive cultural hub that is Germany’s capital. The event unites fashion, art, and design with a focus on contemporary issues such as sustainability, inclusion, and promotion of new and upcoming talent.
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Arab Fashion Week
Dates TBD
The Arab Fashion Week was formed in 2014 to represent the fashion industry in the 22 Arab Countries. It showcases the premier designers from the region and leads the industry through creative influence. The event aims to position the Arab fashion industry at the center of the global fashion economy.
BRIDE Dubai
February 10–13
BRIDE is the leading bridal style event in the Middle East, where you can experience spectacular fashion displays, enjoy interactive lifestyle stations, and access all the latest must-haves in beauty, luxury, and bridal celebrations.
Scoop
February 11–13
Contemporary designer womenswear show “Scoop” comes to Olympia West, Kensington, to showcase the most fashionable designs. This year’s theme is “a return to wonderment.”
New York Fashion Week
February 9–14
Held in February and September of each year, NYFW is a semi-annual series of events where buyers, press members, and the general public view international fashion collections. It is one of four major fashion weeks in the world, collectively known as the “Big 4”.
London Fashion Week
February 16–20
LFW is a clothing trade show that takes place in London twice a year in February and September. Showcasing over 250 designers to a global audience of influential media and retailers, London Fashion Week is also a part of the “Big Four” fashion weeks.
REBEL: 30 Years of London Fashion
September 16, 2023-February 11, 2024
This landmark exhibition will open to coincide with London Fashion Week. Highlighting 30 years of NEWGEN, a British Fashion Council, the event will focus on the creative, contemporary, innovative approach to design that its members have promoted since 1993.
Milan Fashion Week
February 20-26
Milan Fashion Week is a semi-annual show. The autumn/winter event takes place in February/March of each year, and the spring/summer event is in September/October of each year. It has been a cornerstone of the “Big Four” fashion weeks since 1985.
MARCH
Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo
March Dates TBD
Japan’s latest creations are showcased to the world at Shibuya Hikarie and Omotesando Hills, as well as other locations in Tokyo. It’s a highlight of Japanese culture and fashion, and along with the “Big Four,” it is seen as one of the most influential Fashion Weeks in the global market.
Lisboa Fashion Week
March Dates TBD
Lisboa Fashion Week is Associação ModaLisboa’s main project and, more than a Fashion Week, it serves as an engine for discovering young talent, which it educates and encourages through platforms such as Sangue Novo | Young Designers Competition, Workstation, and LAB. When it comes to fashion events in 2023, this is one we are for sure looking forward to seeing what creativity comes forth!
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Seoul Fashion Week
March Dates TBD
Seoul Fashion Week, an event organized by the Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG), promotes K-fashion to the global community. The bi-annual event is the largest fashion business event in Korea.
Professional Beauty London
March 3-4
The UK’s largest trade show for beauty, spa, and nail professionals.
The 96th Academy Awards / Oscars 2024
March 10
A star-studded event filled with fabulous red-carpet fashion! Held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA.
Shanghai Fashion Week
March Dates TBD
As a centuries-old fashion capital, Shanghai integrates local and international visions and balancing creative design and commercial interests. In the past couple of decades, it has evolved into a fashion eco landscape that runs through the entire industry.
APRIL
NYFW Bridal
April 3-5
Vancouver Fashion Week
April 23-28
Vancouver Fashion Week is dedicated to cultivating a connection between established and award-winning emerging designers with a multicultural approach; diversity being one of their greatest strengths. Vancouver Fashion Week has grown to be the second-largest fashion week in North America–and is the fastest-growing fashion week in the world.
MAY
Met Gala 2024
May 6
The iconic Met Gala, formally called the Costume Institute Gala and also known as the Met Ball, is an annual fundraising gala for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York City. This year’s event theme is “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.” Read on!
Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion Exhibition
May 10-September 2
A celebration of historic fashion masterpieces. More than 250 garments and accessories spanning four centuries will be on display. The immersive installation promises to breathe new life into masterworks that have influenced and defined fashion through the ages.
Cannes Film Festival
May 14–24
The red carpet at Cannes Film Festival is always a must-see fashion event!
CFDA Fashion Awards
May Date TBD
The CFDA Fashion Awards honors excellence in fashion design. It’s like “the Oscars of fashion”. Nominations are submitted by the Fashion Guild, a group of over 1,500 CFDA members, fashion editors, retailers, and stylists.
JUNE
Fashion Events 2024
London Fashion Week S/S
June 13–17
Paris Fashion Week Men’s F/W
June 16–24
Paris Haute Couture Week
June 24-27
Haute Couture is the creation of exclusive custom-fit clothing. The artistic event happens biannually in Paris, France, with spring/summer and autumn/winter events.
JULY
Miami Swim Week
July Dates TBD
This annual Miami Fashion Week is a Mecca of swimwear and beach style.
AUGUST
Aldo Fallai per Giorgio Armani, 1977-2021: Armani/Silos, Milan
December 5, 2023-August 11, 2024
This solo exhibition, curated by Giorgio Armani, Rosanna Armani, and Leo Dell’Orco, showcases over thirty years of work by Florentine photographer, Aldo Fallai. The aim is to allow visitors an immersive experience in the extensive visual and artistic dialogue between Giorgio Armani and the lens of Aldo Fallai.
SEPTEMBER
New York Fashion Week S/S
September 6–11
London Fashion Week S/S
September 13–17
Milan Fashion Week S/S
September 17–23
Paris Fashion Week S/S
September 23 – October 1
OCTOBER
NYFW Bridal
October 8-10
Beautyworld Middle East
October 28-30
Beautyworld Middle East is the largest international trade fair for beauty products, hair, fragrances, and wellbeing in the Middle East. As one of the most influential and visited beauty trade shows in the world, the show offers trade visitors the convenience of meeting over 1,800 companies face to face over three days, for serious business.
Portugal Fashion
October Dates TBD
Portugal Fashion is one of the most important fashion events in Portugal; created to give visibility to Portuguese fashion. Here you’ll have the opportunity to see collections by Fátima Lopes, Luis Onofre, Luís Buchinho, Katty Xiomara.
Feature Image: Schiaparelli Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2023/2024 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on July 03, 2023 in Paris, France. (Photo by Peter White/Getty Images)
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