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London – The Manchester Fashion Week will return in September after a ten -year break.
The three-day fashion event from September 9th to 11th includes fashion shows and presentations from the city’s best men’s and upperwear as well as discussions about the textile heritage, technological innovation and sustainable practices.
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Gemma Gratton, executive producer of the Manchester Fashion Week, said that one can expect heritage brands to reveal the practices that made it possible for them to enable the future of fashion by tech, AI and advanced materials in addition to the next generation. There will also be explorations on topics such as on-horing vs. off-horing in British production.
Campfield, a new creative hub that was born from one of the oldest market halls in Manchester in the St. John region, will serve as the main stage for the Manchester Fashion Week.
According to Gratton, the upcoming pilot edition will be B2B focus in the first year, since it should deal with northern power plants for fashion and manufacturing as well as future-oriented brands to improve their effects on people and the planet.
“Fashion, as it looks, is not sustainable and we are not afraid of this truth. The Manchester Fashion Week will directly face the industry challenges and emphasize how brands can take on more responsibility. Education will be of central importance for our mission, since we interfere with the current system and have critical conversations about the cultural and systemic changes in the industry and broader changes,” said Graton.
The different subcultural style and identities of the city are also celebrated during the three -day event.
While London has taken place in Great Britain in Great Britain in the past, Manchester has developed into an important fashion rate in the past decade.
According to Gratton, the Manchester Fashion Week will be an integrative platform to encourage honest dialogues with these players.
“While we do not support ourselves for the practices of the ultra -fast fashion, we welcome these players to join the conversation without judgment. Our goal is to create space for learning, dialogues and progress by inviting them to hear from groundbreaking voices in fashion and sustainability,” she said.
With regard to the line, Gratton said that there is a five -year plan to achieve growth of year compared to the previous year, with a focus on education, innovation and transformation.
The return of the Manchester Fashion Week is financed and is “brought to life to a committed team that believes in the need for a fashion week that is rooted in Manchester Identity,” added Gratton, who has 20 years of experience in sales, business development and project management before working on the relaunch of the Manchester Fashion Week.
She believes that the city needs a fashion change, the industry introduces from scratch, supports itself from its industrial heritage and at the same time comprises the new technical innovations of the city.
“When the leading innovation city of Great Britain, Manchester is uniquely positioned to redefine what a fashion week can be. We not only add the calendar.
Gratton’s Manchester ambition is also with the latest strategic update of the British Fashion Council, in which the new Chief Executive Officer of the BFC, Laura Weir, is relocated to decentralize and recognize nationwide excellence and to make the United Kingdom accessible to the world.
The Manchester Fashion Week was founded in 2011 by the entrepreneur Jonathan Sassen, who is now owner of the Maverick Seven Group, a hospitality advice. The original operation was short -lived because it was affected by a number of controversy due to unpaid invoices.
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