Atlanta Fashion Week

Atlanta's fashion week record in this guide is the Atlanta International Fashion Week — Fashion Week ATL — described in the record below as an emerging platform designed to unveil, develop and fuse the Atlanta fashion industry. Its stage is downtown Atlanta, and its bill mixes national and international designers with the city's own established and emerging talent.

The description is carried in full in the record: collections presented to national and international buyers, media, celebrities and select style makers, in one of Georgia's most sought-after visitor districts. A contact address for the event, info@fashionweekatl.com, is among the references kept with the record.

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

An Emerging Platform in Atlanta

The Atlanta record is written in the language of a platform still building itself: unveil, develop, fuse. That is the honest position of a young regional fashion week — its work is to give a city's scattered fashion industry a single stage, and to make that stage alluring enough that buyers and media from outside the region will travel to it. Downtown Atlanta supplies the setting; the designers, local and visiting, supply the reason.

Atlanta's page stands in the United States guide between Phoenix and Baltimore — three regional platforms in a row, each with a different founding idea: exposure for a state industry in Arizona, fusion of a city industry in Georgia, and community celebration in Maryland.