From January 16 to 21, 2023, Berlin Fashion Week will present itself as the industry's leading event with a multi-faceted, sustainable repertoire. Runway shows, creative installations, trend-setting panels and conferences, numerous side events as well as the Premium Group trade fair formats taking place at the same time of Berlin Fashion Week.

In addition to the core themes of sustainability, inclusion and innovation, the focus of the upcoming Berlin Fashion Week will be on the consistent promotion of promising new design talent and emerging brands designed in Germany.

The Berlin Contemporary format is celebrating its premiere as part of the upcoming Berlin Fashion Week. Berlin Contemporary offers emerging talents a platform to present themselves, their creativity, their craftsmanship and their innovative strength. Among the 18 fashion labels showing their collections at Berlin Contemporary are promising up-and- coming talents like Dennis Chuene or Sia Arnika, and SF1OG. Established brands include Odeeh, Rianna + Nina, Malaika Raiss, Namilia and Esther Perbandt. Among the award-winning fashion labels are designers from Ukraine: Bobkova, Litkovska, Dzhus and Jean Gritsfeldt. Berlin is pleased to be able to give them a stage again at this special time.

In addition to the fashion shows, there are new multiplier formats in the programme. The Vorn Fashion Show is an exhibition and fashion show with sustainable brands initiated by Vorn, The Berlin Fashion Hub. Around 100 designers and brands put together around 45 looks on the visual trend themes of the season. With the Melagance Order Festival, a showroom is part of Berlin Fashion Week for the first time. Studio 183 will dedicate a day to the topic of circular fashion in the digital age and will invite various experts from the fields of circular fashion, sustainability and technology.

At the W.E4 Fashion Day, the designers Rebekka Ruetz, Danny Reinke, Marcel Ostertag and Kilian Kerner have joined forces to present a joint presentation format at Bolle Festsäle. Platte.Berlin shows the diverse side of the capital during the "Diverse It!" festival. The established conference 202030 Summit and the showpiece Der Berliner Salon round off the comprehensive and diverse programme of Berlin Fashion Week.

An important hub of the upcoming Berlin Fashion Week will be the stilwerk KantGaragen in Berlin- Charlottenburg where the Berlin Salon and the newEST showcase format will take place. As a sustainable format, newEST offers young fashion designers a multifunctional space for fashion shows as part of a Fashion Week Hub. In addition to the shows and installations, the official state reception for the opening of Berlin Fashion Week and the Fireside Chat of the Fashion Council Germany will also take place there.

A stone's throw away, the Premium Group celebrates its 20th anniversary at the Berlin exhibition grounds with a few surprises. Premium, Seek, and a developed version of the sustainability format Conscious Club will be held from Jan. 17 to 19, 2023 at Messe Berlin.

The Berlin Fashion Week calendar is available here

The Berlin Fashion Week events are available here

photo: Berlin Fashion Week September 2022, Mbfw x Ufw Show Bobkova at Mbfw Berlin. Sebastian Reuter/Getty for Nowadays