With love, from the city wearing its story.

Since 2024

Bridging Chicago culture and couture.

Emerging with a mission to define a ‘new look’ that places the Second City first in fashion, CHI✶FW is threading the eye of Chicago’s Loop to create a diverse tapestry of citizens from across the metro region united by a vision of a sustainable, communal, and fashionable future.

Bridging Chicago
culture and couture.

Emerging with a mission to define a ‘new look’ that places the Second City first in fashion, CHIFW is threading the eye of Chicago’s Loop to create a diverse tapestry of citizens from across the metro region united by a vision of a sustainable, communal, and fashionable future.

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Introduction

Spanning 14 counties across three states, Chicagoland, known as the nation’s “Second City,” has a rich, niche history of fashion commerce. However, this history might be recounted differently in each of the 77 neighborhoods that compose our great city. It's amidst this geographic diversity where we find our strength, weaving together districts like the seams of a garment to form one unified love for Chicago.

The Chicago Fashion Week® brand is a steward of the narratives we proudly adorn, exemplifying the mosaic of origins, ideas, and aesthetics that define our style. From the bold statements of streetwear to the refined elegance of haute couture, Chicago Fashion Week® celebrates every thread of our city’s fashion tapestry, ensuring that each story is told, seen, and celebrated on the world stage.

Spanning 14 counties across three states, the Chicagoland metro region, known as the nation’s “Second City,” has a rich, niche history of fashion commerce. However, this history might be recounted differently in each of the 77 neighborhoods that compose our great city. It's amidst this geographic diversity where we find our strength, weaving together districts like the seams of a garment to form one unified love for Chicago.

The Chicago Fashion Week brand is a steward of the narratives we proudly adorn, exemplifying the mosaic of origins, ideas, and aesthetics that define our style. From the bold statements of streetwear to the refined elegance of haute couture, Chicago Fashion Week celebrates every thread of our city’s fashion tapestry, ensuring that each story is told, seen, and celebrated on the world stage.

Pillars

Chicago

Commerce

Present

Placed at the ‘middle of everything’, Chicago Fashion Week® will unite heritage and modernity into an event that extends today’s fashion zeitgeist far beyond the lake shore.

Fashion

History

Past

Born from the underground, our city is teeming with rich fashion history— Chicago Fashion Week® will tell a wholistic story that seamlessly weaves centuries of progress into one event.

Week

Ingenuity

Future

Like the peaks of our skyline, each year Chicago Fashion Week® will unveil a vision for fashion that reaches for the clouds with sights set on innovation and new frontiers.

Event Types

In-Store Event

Exclusive in-store experiences offering unique services, elevating the shopping experience beyond typical offerings.

In-Store Event

Exclusive in-store experiences offering unique services, elevating the shopping experience beyond typical offerings.

In-Store Event

Runway Show

Live runway shows featuring the latest collections from both emerging and established designers.

Runway Show

Live runway shows featuring the latest collections from both emerging and established designers.

Runway Show

Education Event

Deep dives into styling, personal style, fashion history and the business of fashion, from Chicago experts.

Education Event

Deep dives into styling, personal style, fashion history and the business of fashion, from Chicago experts.

Education Event

Social Event

Curated social gatherings with a fashion focus, held at offsite venues, uniting fashion lovers in dynamic settings.

Social Event

Curated social gatherings with a fashion focus, held at offsite venues, uniting fashion lovers in dynamic settings.

Social Event

Fashion Exhibition

Public exhibitions showcasing fashion-related art, history, and innovation, celebrating the craft’s diverse expressions.

Fashion Exhibition

Public exhibitions showcasing fashion-related art, history, and innovation, celebrating the craft’s diverse expressions.

Fashion Exhibition

Markets

A collective space for browsing and buying from various fashion creators, labels, resellers, and vendors.

Markets

A collective space for browsing and buying from various fashion creators, labels, resellers, and vendors.

Markets

"It’s time for fashion to take its real place in Chicago. But it also has to be measured with many of the other dynamic things that make Chicago the amazing city it is. Whether it is the architecture, the theater, the music, the culinary arts, all these different entities and disciplines get national representation, and fashion deserves that as well."

Mayor Brandon Johnson

Chicago Fashion Week®
Press Kick-off Event
May 2024

Leadership

John Leydon

Carrie Lannon

Marquan Jones

Agency partners:

Returns in 2025

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