Kyiv Fashion

The 22th edition of Kyiv Fashion international festival, the most important event of the fashion industry of Ukraine, will be held in Kyiv on February 15-18, 2012. 

In 2007, Kyiv Fashion has become a UFI approved event, this fact indicating the increased prestige of the exhibition in Ukraine as well as throughout the world.

Aim and mission of Kyiv Fashion

Kyiv Fashion is the only Ukraine's exhibition covering all the light and textile industries, composed of specialized exhibitions as follows:

• KYIV EXPO STYLE
• SALON OF LEATHER AND FUR
• SALON OF UNDERWEAR
• KYIV TEXTILE
• BUY FASHION BUSINESS
• KYIV FASHION KIDS
• EXPO TECHMASH

The company has been developing this exhibition in 1998. The event runs twice a year in September and in February. Within 12 years of successful activity, the exhibition has become a traditional event for all light industry specialists.

• Annual professional contests

Annually, within the framework of September edition of the exhibition, the contest of fashionable wear “Autograph” is held. It is a professional contest and a very bright and colorful event at the exhibition. It has different nominations, various designers take part in it, both young and professional ones. In February, Golden Flourish - the contest of design clothes - is held, the aim of which is to demonstrate and promote the art of young designers and to show their art to publicity as well as to specialists of light industry and, of course, to mass media.

• Trend zones

In 2011, a trend zone project called “Tendencies, trends and innovations of Fall/Winter seasons 2011-2012” was organized for the first time at the exhibition.

• Costumotheka

Within the 20^th edition of Kyiv Fashion festival, the exposition “Couturier Madeleine Vionnet and XX century wear modeling experience” was presented. It demonstrated dress reconstructions from Costumotheka of Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design.

• Discussions panels

Special attention is paid to organiation of specialized seminars and masterclasses. More than 100 specialized events were held during the exhibition.

• Other events at the exhibition

Traditionally, the  Yong Fashion Line project is held within the framework of Kyiv Fashion, where designers can not only present their new collections during the podium shows, but also enhance their professional level at specialized seminars, conclude contracts at an exhibition stand and communicate with specialists of the sector and with mass media.
The exhibition is accompanied by the FASHION SHOW program, Defile of Ukrainian trade marks, as well as Lingerie Fashion Show. The program includes both extensive presentation shows and shows of trend mini collections devoted to different topics.

Participation in Kyiv Fashion provides Ukrainian and international companies with the opportunity to establish necessary trade and economic contacts through communication with professional audience (B2B exhibition format), adopt the best fashion practices and exchange experience. Big advantage of Kyiv Fashion international festival is combination of interconnected specialized exhibitions devoted to textiles and light industry in one united forum, where it often happens that exhibitors of one exhibition are the clients of the another one's participants. Thus, the visitors get the conditions, which are maximum favorable for covering several sections of the market they are interested in.

Exhibition area:

Kyiv Fashion – about 10,000 sq.m

Kyiv Fashion Kids – about 1,000 sq.m

Number of participants:

Total number of exhibitors – 328

Foreign exhibitors – 80

Countries represented: France, China, the Netherlands, Germany, Belarus, the USA, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Turkey, Poland.

Number of visitors – 10,228

Visitor profile:

Buyers – 66%

Top management – 15%

Middle management – 11%

Designers – 3%

Mass media – 2%

Students of specialized higher educational establishments – 1%

Others – 2%