Goal of Forum is to create, within the framework of the professional exhibition «Fashion Industry», a platform for the creative realization of creative youth, promoting aspiring designers and specialists at the stage of creating their own brands and at the beginning of building a professional career.

Objectives of the Forum:
• Creating conditions for participation in exhibition activities by gifted students, aspiring designers and promising young professionals.
• Attracting the attention of employers and manufacturers to the achievements of young designers and specialists, developing business cooperation between forum participants and exhibition participants and representatives of the fashion industry.
• Involving students and teachers of specialized universities, secondary educational institutions, vocational training (retraining) schools of the Russian Federation and foreign countries to participate in the professional life of the industry.
• Creation of a new format of educational activities in a real working environment and conditions for the exchange of experience between educational institutions of higher and secondary vocational education, vocational training (retraining) schools.

Within the framework of the Forum, various events are expected to be held daily:
• Presentations of participants’ projects (5 minutes, a video or presentation, a story about their achievements and capabilities), it is possible to organize a show-presentation using your team.
• Presentations of specialized departments as an opportunity to find business partners among exhibition participants.
• Conducting public master classes, open lectures, seminars.
• Meetings with industry professionals, jury representatives, and exhibition management. Topics: what is expected of young people in production, what is important to learn before starting work, how to go to an exhibition and why, etc.
• Round tables with the participation of finalists, jury members, participants and the exhibition management.
• A design hackathon is a competitive creation of sketches on a given topic.

Stage 1 (July 10 – August 30, 2024)

Competitive selection of participants on the online platform. Uploading materials (up to 10 images, including a photo of the author, a brief resume, identification of the educational institution and teacher-supervisor, links to videos, social network pages is required) until August 22. The jury vote takes place over 10 days.

The organizing committee sums up the results and announces the finalists of the Competition on September 1.

All participants receive electronic diplomas. All finalists receive paper diplomas.

At the preparatory stage, the organizing committee holds online meetings with the finalists to coordinate the program and the work of stage 2.

Stage 2 (October 17–20, 2024)

The Competition stand at the «Fashion Industry» exhibition is a creative environment and a joint exhibition of textile, costume and graphic designers. Showroom and business platform for master classes and presentations.

The best works are presented at the stand. The works of all finalists are shown on the screen.