Manchester Fashion Week, absent from the city’s cultural calendar for a decade, will return from 9 to 11 September 2025 at Campfield, the newly-revitalised creative and tech hub in Manchester’s St John’s district.
The three-day event takes place in Campfield’s Upper Campfield and Campfield Studios, where immersive runway shows, curated panels, exclusive parties, trade events, and pop-up boutiques will be staged.
Campfield, formerly the city’s historic market halls, was transformed earlier this year by developer Allied London with support from the Council’s Culture in the City initiative. The heritage-listed buildings now offer over 130,000 sq ft of flexible space for Manchester’s creative and tech community.
Manchester Fashion Week has adopted daily themes to guide its programming: Day one spotlights Heritage & Future-Proof, reflecting the city’s textile legacy, day two focuses on Health & Wellness, and day three explores Tech & Innovation, highlighting AI, smart textiles, and digital design. The event emphasises honest dialogue, visionary thinking, and radical collaboration across its panels and activations.
Executive Producer Gemma Gratton said the city needs to ‘future-proof fashion from the ground up’, adding: “We wanted a venue partner who shared our vision of combining industrial heritage with cutting-edge innovation, and Campfield delivers exactly that, not only providing a unique space for an immersive catwalk event, but also actively supporting Manchester’s creative and tech community.”
Tanya Grady of Allied London added: “Our partnership with Manchester Fashion Week is rooted in celebrating Manchester’s impressive creative heritage and spotlighting the city’s upcoming talent.
“The theme of tech and innovation at this year’s event reflects Campfield’s core values. The campus was designed to give the region’s most innovative creative and tech businesses space to thrive, talent room to grow, and collaboration the chance to flourish. We look forward to seeing this vision come to life at the show, with our Exchange accelerator participants actively involved in activities and conversations.”
It will be guided by industry figures including sustainable pioneers Carry Somers of Fashion Revolution and Safia Minney of People Tree, with strategic support from sustainability media platform and consultancy Eco Age.
By staging the event just ahead of the major fashion weeks in New York, London, Milan, and Paris, organisers aim to position Manchester not just as a fashion destination, but as a place for meaningful innovation in the industry.
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