DC Fashion Week

DC Fashion Week's record in this guide is short and confident, and it is carried in the record below: the Washington event is widely covered by local, national and international media, is considered one of the fastest growing fashion week exhibits in the world, and reaches an audience of over 10 million per fashion week. Few regional weeks in this guide state their reach so directly.

The capital's week is the senior event of its local pair: just outside the District, Northern Virginia's NOVA Fashion Week launched in 2009 with its own page in this guide, and the two records together cover the Washington area's fashion week scene. The event's own site, dcfashionweek.org, is linked among the references for current information.

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

The Capital's Fashion Week

Washington's fashion week works in a city better known for politics than for fashion, and the record's emphasis falls exactly there: media reach. An audience counted in the tens of millions per season is a broadcasting achievement as much as a runway one, and it reflects the capital's concentration of national and international press — the same press corps that covers the government is on hand for the shows.

For Washington fashion more broadly, this page's exploration links lead to the District's fashion coverage in the directory, and the fashion week news directory follows the event's seasons as they are reported.