China Fashion Week

China Fashion Week is a professional event presenting fashion, ready-to-wear, accessories, styling and relevant design and technologies, held with the approval of the authority of the People's Republic of China. It was established in 1997, and it is held twice a year — from March 25 to 31 and from October 25 to 31 — for the autumn/winter and spring/summer collections. The event's own account is kept below as the record.

Scale is the first fact of China Fashion Week: for each edition, more than twenty events are staged within the week. That program breadth — runway fashion alongside accessories, styling and design technology — makes it as much an industry platform as a show schedule.

Illustrative image created for this guide — an artistic impression, not photographs from these shows.

A Twice-Yearly Industry Platform

The two fixed windows, late March and late October, put China Fashion Week on the international calendar's rhythm, a season ahead of the clothes it shows. Within each window, the program mixes the runway presentations buyers and media expect with the surrounding disciplines — accessories, styling, design and technology — that a manufacturing and design economy of China's scale needs in one place.

The event's own website, chinafashionweek.org, is linked from this page; the address did not answer when checked, but a connection failure is not proof that a site is gone, so the link is kept as part of the record. In the Apparel Search directory, China Fashion Week is the anchor entry for the Chinese industry, read alongside the country fashion industry guide linked from this page.