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FWI 12-15 OCTOBER 2021
APPLICATION CRITERIA & PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS

The application criteria and participation conditions for Fashion Week Istanbul, which will take part between October 12 to 15, 2021, are outlined for your information.

As of 05.05.2021, applications can be submitted to www.fashionweek.istanbul. The following details must be submitted into the application form.

The application deadline is June 14, 2021.

The necessary information should be sent to [email protected] by June 24, 2021 (moodboard and lookbook from the previous two seasons) and September 15, 2021 (production detail; fashion film or fashion photoshoot, etc.).

The FWI Evaluation Committee will meet on June 28, 2021. Our participant designers will be announced on July 1, 2021.

Please keep in mind that submitting this application does not guarantee your acceptance into the FWI.

Applicants will be asked to include further supporting information, which would be taken into consideration before finalizing on the application.

FWI would not include bridal collection, kids clothes, or underwear collections.

Designer Application Criteria
FWI 2021 12-15 October

• Fashion Week Istanbul will be gender-neutral and seasonless.
• As of September 15, 2021, the collections should have completed visual presentation shots. The fashion film or fashion show video should be no longer than 7 minutes duration and should be followed by short versions for social media (Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter).
• The lookbooks and line pages of the participating designers are required to be available by June 24, 2021.
• All participants' collections must have a minimum of 18 looks.

Designers who have previously participated in FWI include:

1. Trademark registration certificate
2. Company information (company name, address, telephone, tax office)
3. Official social media and/or website 4. Collection moodboards with complete collection sketch, fabric and accessory selections (until 24.06.2021 to [email protected] e-mail address)
5. Season and collection (unisex, women's, men's, women's/men's)
6. PR company or inhouse PR team
7. 5-year foreign sales strategy
8. Export figures for the last 3 years
9. Membership to IHKIB (to the Exporters Union of the region to which it is affiliated if it is out of Istanbul)

information must be submitted.

Designers who will participate in FWI for the first time:

• 1. Trademark registration certificate
• 2. Company information (company name, address, telephone, tax office)
• 3. Official social media and/or website
• 4. Brand stores (domestic and international)
• 5. Having prepared a collection for at least 2 seasons
• 6. PR company or inhouse PR team
• 7. Collection moodboards must include full collection sketch, fabric, accessory selections and minimum with 3 finished look until 24.06.2021, ITKIB General Secretariat, Çobançeşme Mevkii Sanayi Caddesi Foreign Trade Complex B Block Floor: 5; Yenibosna/Istanbul should be sent.
• 8. 5-year foreign sales strategy
• 9. Membership to IHKIB (to the Exporters Union of the region to which it is affiliated if it is out of Istanbul)

information must be submitted.

CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE DIGITAL SHOWROOM

Designers who wants to partake in one of the world's leading and most critical sales markets must follow all of the requirements listed below. Applicant designers will be assessed before being allowed to attend in these platforms. Applicant designers will be assessed before being allowed to attend in these platforms.

• Only designers who have enrolled for FWI have access to the digital chatroom.
• Digital showroom participation agreement
• Countries with foreign trade
• Export department information (export manager etc.)
• A capacity report from the Chamber of Industry or Chambers of Commerce of the province of which they are associated, or a contract with the production facility (minimum 6 months)

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All of our designers who will participate in FWI will be evaluated on June 28, 2021, and they must schedule their presentations in compliance with the guidelines.

Designers must own the entire production responsibility (fashion film, fashion show video, lookbook and linesheet shootings) in October 2021, with certain support from the production.