PARTICIPATION ON THE UNITED FASHION SHOWROOM, 2019
Credits: Axl Jansen/Sonja Heintschel Photographers
If you are a designer from Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania or Turkey, and your goal is the international presentation and development of the brand, then your right place is on the UNITED FASHION SHOWROOM.
WHAT IS HAPPENING: The Fashion Weekend Skopje, which is part of the international association that realizes the United Fashion project and next year’s event host, announces an open call for all domestic and regional designers who will take part during the Fashion Weekend Skopje from March 29 to April 1, 2019.
With our partners we will select 36 regional and designers from Europe (Belgium, France, Portugal, Flanders, Latvia, Germany and the UK) who will take part in the showroom in Skopje to present and learn about the textile market in Southeast Europe.
The show will be visited by international buyers and media representatives. Additionally , the selected participants will have the chance to participate in networking and workshops.
The activities will include presentations of the SEE market by industry professionals, presentations from selected local producers, visits to factories by selected designers and pre-arranged B2B meetings between participating designers and local producers.
OUR GOAL: The main goal of the United Fashion SEE Showroom project in Skopje, 2019 is the presentation of fashion designers from Southeast Europe to international buyers and media representatives, as well as connecting designers from the European Union with Macedonian factories. The project takes an approach to strengthen competitiveness through multi-state co-operation between individuals and SMEs in the fashion sector in the region and promoting SEE as an economic area on the international stage.
WHO ARE OUR PARTNERS: Apart from Fashion Weekend Skopje, United Fashion is carried out by a cluster of European fashion support associations: MAD Brussels (BE), Flanders DC (BE), ModaLisboa (PT), Baltic Fashion Federation (LV), Maison de Mode (FR), Fashion Council Germany (DE) and Not Just A Label (UK).
United Fashion received the support from the Creative Europe program of the European Union.
HOW TO APPLY: The application and more details can be found on the following link:
DOWNLOAD UF Application form | Fashion Weekend Skopje 2019
DOWNLOAD UF Production Survey | Fashion Weekend Skopje 2019
DOWNLOAD UF Open Call | Fashion Weekend Skopje 2019
Please send the completed application to info@fashionweekendskopje.mk and info@united-fashion.eu no later than December 12, 2018.
