Atlanta International Fashion Week is engineering the global fashion experience and attracting industry influencers with a passport to arts, culture, fashion, and entertainment. The destination is fashion with a journey through art and an encounter with style. The proclaimed Atlanta International Fashion Week is bridging the gap and connecting continents through fashion! Introducing, Tour de Atlanta, a six-day adventure through Atlanta’s premier locations showcasing the retail, art, and cultural communities. Fashion is more than just the clothes on one’s back. It’s a movement, a feeling, and an expression. AIFW fosters and encourages established and up-and-coming designers through numerous industry and networking events. AIFW has developed Fashion Lives Here a fashion awareness program created to generate international attention to Atlanta’s vibrant retail market and arts community. Atlanta has one of the top 10 retail markets in the country and AIFW has goals to grow the vitality of the Atlanta fashion arts community, maintain global relations along with the promotion of the arts through fashion and entertainment. The 18th annual AIFW is taking place March 20th-23rd and September 23rd-28thth, 2025 at various downtown locations.
With worldwide appeal, 50 designers, 12 runway shows, 6 celebrity events, 4 fashion workshops, 2 trunk shows in one week and eleven years in the making, the Atlanta International Fashion Week has become one of the largest fashion and entertainment events of the year. You will be immersed in six days packed with runway shows, live entertainment, learning sessions, and network events to bridge the gap and connect continents through fashion. This star-studded affair will be entertaining and designed to benefit local and national charities all in the name of fashion.
Beginning in 2007 at Atlanta’s preeminent exposition center, the Georgia World Congress Center, AIFW has featured catwalk favorites of Balmain, Kenzo, Maison Margiela, Balenciaga, White House Black Market, Roberto Cavalli, Trina Turk, Calvin Klein, Kenneth Cole, Juicy Couture, Rock & Republic, Sean John, Ed Hardy, Dereon, True Religion, Akademiks, Apple Bottoms, Ecko, Baby Phat, Rocawear, Phat Farm, Ashley Stewart, Enyce, LRG and many more among countless independent designers. Atlanta is slowly becoming an epicenter of fashion with AIFW bringing it to the forefront on a global level.
What we have achieved for the City of Atlanta:
-Community Development and various programs that improve citizen lives such as ‘Beauty & A Makeover’
-Paving the way for the fashion industry in Atlanta and growing the economy
-Providing opportunities and propelling careers of hundreds of talent
-Placing Atlanta on a global scale for fashion and featuring fashion from over 17 countries
-Highlighting Atlanta’s rich heritage and historic buildings
-Youth development and mentorship through nonprofit, Fashion Apprentice
https://www.atlantaintlfashionweek.com/about-us