Under support of: |
The Committee for enterprise |
St. Petersburg regional office |
Fashion Congress (Economic Forum of Fashion Industry) allows to establish a dialogue between producers and buyers. Discussion of all aspects of the industry is conducted in several areas. Scientific and practical conferences help to establish direct contacts with the local authorities and solve urgent problems. Proposals made during the conference are later submitted for discussion at administrative structures. Training seminars, workshops, training courses aimed to improve the professional level of all members of the fashion-industry: producers, buyers, designers and others.
September 28, Thursday
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10.30–13.30 |
Specialized conference: Saint Petersburg as the Center of Fashion Industry, Next Step. Synergetic Effect Roman Gerasimov, TV presenter, moderator, business coach (Saint Petersburg) Press center, conference-hall No. 3 |
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11.00–14.00 |
Workshop: Future and Fashion in the Hands of Young Generation Speaker: Maya Kuznetsova, artist-modeler, PHd in Study of Art, member of the Designer's Union of the Russian Federation, art director of the Generation NEXT contest for the young designers (Saint Petersburg) Business Center |
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14.00–15.00 |
Solemn opening of the Fair and Economic Forum of the Fashion Industry Awarding of winners of the GENERATION NEXT young designers’ contest. Central Podium |
September 29, Friday
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11.00–17.00 |
Workshop: Fashion Trends. Key Trends in Fashion for Spring-Summer 2018 Speaker: Luba Popova, professor of the Milan New Academy of Arts (NABA, Italy) Press center, conference-hall No. 3 |
September 30, Saturday
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11.00–14.00 |
Workshop: Promotion of Fashion Business Through Social Networks: Keep Up with Trends, Increase Marketing Efficiency Speaker: Alexandra Lakovnikova, head of the strategic digital marketing agency (Saint Petersburg) Business Center |
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15.00–18.00 |
Workshop: How to Increase Sales in a Shop Using Visual Merchandising Resources? Up-To-Date Technologies of Commercial Visual Merchandizing Speaker: Anna Balandina, a founder and a head of VM Guru agency (Moscow) Business Center |
October 1, Sunday
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11.00–14.00 |
Workshop: Realize! Methods To Manage Sale—Assistants: Efficient Solutions Without Major Investments Speaker: Anna Bocharova, business trainer, consultant for management and organizational development (Moscow) Business Center |
Daily
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10.00–18.00 |
Valuable Personnel of the Fashion Industry - Career Fair |
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12.00 and 14.00 |
Demonstration of new garments collections Central Podium |
The Competition of young designers «Generation NEXT» opens new names of talented and creative professionals in the fashion industry. In the spring of 2015 the competition was attended by 117 students and graduates from the 26 specialized educational institutions of Russia, Belarus, Latvia and Italy. Unique format of “Generation NEXT” - which is a joint exposition of young designers’ projects at the FASHION INDUSTRY Tradefair platform - helps the participants of the competition to establish contacts with the manufacturers and buyers at the beginning of their professional career.
The competition takes place in 4 categories: “Suit”, “Textiles”, “Graphic design in the fashion industry”, “Fashion-business”. Winners of the contest are determined by the professional jury composed of leading industry experts.
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Job Fair "Valuable staff for fashion industry" helps to establish a dialogue between job seekers and employers in the field of fashion industry. Job Fair is:
At a special stand you can leave your resume or open position description. FASHION INDUSTRY is a place where an employer finds his employee and the applicant - his job.
Daily from 11: 00 till 17: 00.
At the Business Centre visitors are welcome to organize seminars and presentations, take on negotiations with business partners, use office equipment. You can also take part in training activities held at Business Centre during the Tradefair which will help you to be up-to-date with the latest technologies of fashion industry, exchange with professional experience and realize the potential of your company.
Daily Fashion Catwalks organized at the main podium of the Tradefair present new clothing and accessories collections of up-coming season to buyers and visitors. This both advantageous activity is in a great demand as for exhibitors as for buyers. Manufacturers demonstrate the benefits of products and convince buyers to make orders directly at the exhibition while buyers find new collections to their stores which are supposed to be in demand for customers.
Each show involves 10-15 companies. Each participant presents 6 looks.
Daily at 12:00 and 14:00 (except March 13)
