Venice Fashion Week celebrates its tenth anniversary and the upcoming edition from March 30th to April 2nd, 2023 is dedicated to research, craftsmanship, and sustainability as values for the future
The Spring 2023 edition of the Venice Fashion Week has been announced and it is set to take place in Venice from March 30th to April 2nd.
This Research edition will consist of meetings between fashion, craftsmanship, and design, as well as two important conferences that will deepen the debate on sustainable fashion.
Venice Fashion Week will start on Thursday, March 30th at 6 pm with the presentation of the collaboration between the fashion brand Liviana Conti and the long-lasting excellence of Murano glass, Seguso Vetri d’Arte.
On March 31st at 10 am, the stakeholders from the tourism industry will meet with Venezia Turismo Sostenibile to plan together the transition of Venice to a sustainable destination and make tourism a resource for the well-being and life in Venice.
On March 31st, from 4 pm, the splendid spaces of Palazzo Sagredo will host Ornamenti Atelier, an event that combines fashion, tailoring, art, and performance.
It will also be the moment for the delivery by Seguso Vetri d’Arte and Venezia da Vivere of the Blue Artisan Award, prizing the sustainable artisanal excellence of the Venetian dressmaker Giuliana Longo, during a conversation with Alessandra de Nitto of the Cologni Foundation.
April 1st is dedicated to Sustainable Fashion Day, a conference with journalists, activists, companies, and designers on the value of work in fashion, between social change, greenwashing, and conscious consumption.
That evening, Venice Fashion Week celebrates its 10th anniversary at the Oriental Bar of the Hotel Metropole, between fashion and cocktails.
On April 2nd, Venice Fashion Week proposes an afternoon in the garden at the NH Collection Grand Hotel Palazzo dei Dogi, with fashion presentations, workshops, interviews with designers and artisans, and the discovery of the hotel’s botanical garden.
Antonia Sautter Atelier is the event that closes the spring edition of the Venice fashion week, transforming the hotel’s spaces into a meeting point between ancient know-how and young energies projecting into the future.
Venice Fashion Week Research Edition
March 30 – April 2, 2023, Venice
Thursday, March 30th, 2023
Atelier Aperti Digital from 9 am to 4 pm
A digital day on social media to discover high craftsmanship with Venice Fashion Week. A dialogue between high craftsmanship, sustainability, and young designers on a journey to discover the places of know-how in Venice and its islands: Venice Fashion Week promotes the spread of the culture of artisanal ateliers that transform tradition by weaving it with contemporaneity.
Connections between fashion, craftsmanship, and design at 6:00 pm
℅ Liviana Conti, Campo San Zulian, San Marco
The Liviana Conti brand hosts a set-up created and designed in collaboration with Seguso Vetri d’Arte.
Friday, March 31st, 2023
Venezia Turismo Sostenibile at 10 am
℅ La Casa di The Human Safety Net, Procuratie Vecchie, Piazza San Marco 128, with the sponsorship of Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia roundtable: the tourism stakeholders of Venice come together to share good practices and innovative paths to make tourism a resource for the well-being and life of the city.
Ornamenti Atelier at 5-8 pm
℅ Palazzo Sagredo, Campo Santa Sofia 4198/99
The fashion artisans present sustainable collections and share their mastery and life and work experience: Ca’ Beltà by women’s fashion creators Lydia and Olena, Demis Marin’s upcycling for Ramosalso, Simona Iacovazzi’s contemporary Murano glass jewellry for PerlamadreDesign and Master Franco Puppato‘s tailor-made men’s wear.
(Tavolo delle Storie) The Table of Stories at 6:30 pm reveals the creative processes, refined techniques, materials, sustainability, and poetry of the work of seven women artisans: Stefania Giannici of Paperoowl, Nadia Syrkova of Syrk Design, Valeria Boncompagni, Shanti Ganesha of Meracu, Marisa Convento, Laboratorio Donà of Patrizia Donà and Sabrina Pigozzo’s recycling of Magoga Team Venezia.
The Blue Artisan at 7 pm
℅ Palazzo Sagredo, Campo Santa Sofia 4198/99
In collaboration with Seguso Vetri d’Arte and Venezia da Vivere, the Venice Fashion Week celebrates Venetian fashion designer Giuliana Longo with The Blue Artisan award.
Saturday, April 1, 2023
Sustainable Fashion Day at 10 am live on social media
℅ Palazzo Ca’ Da Mosto, The Venice Venice Hotel, Cannaregio 5631
The True Colours of Fashion at 4 pm
℅ Palazzo Sagredo, Campo Santa Sofia 4198/99
A day with the most important Italian experts in sustainability, environment, and ethical labour such as Marina Spadafora – Fashion Revolution, Sara Sozzani Maino – Creative Director of Fondazione Sozzani, Giovanni Bonotto – Industrialist, Creative Director of Bonotto, and founder of “Fabbrica Lenta”, Francesca Santoro – Specialist of the Ocean Education Program of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of Unesco, Rodolfo Bevilacqua of the precious weaving of Tessitura Luigi Bevilacqua, Matteo Ward – activist and sustainability expert of fashion, Stefano Micelli – professor, economist, and expert of craftsmanship and innovation, and Arianna Safayi – young Italo-Persian designer, will share with students, academics, creatives, and fashion entrepreneurs the Good Clothes Fair Pay campaign of Fashion Revolution.
The press conference will also be an opportunity to launch the initiative called “A Dress for Venice”, which will be discussed by Lorenzo Cinotti, President of Venice da Vivere, Ettore Pellegrini – Marketing & Sales Manager of Asahi Kasei Fibers Italia, and Luca Olivini – C.L.A.S.S. Eco Hub Material Manager.
10 years of Venice Fashion Week from 6 pm to 10 pm
℅ Oriental Bar of Hotel Metropole, Riva degli Schiavoni, San Marco 4149
Venice Fashion Week celebrates ten years of fashion and cocktails with young fashion designer Marina Amicucci and her tailoring brand Myss Duval, alongside the art of mixology of Lino Marchese with Altamura Distilleries.
Sunday, April 2, 2023
The Blue Garden at 3 pm
℅ Palazzo Rizzo Patarol, headquarters of NH Collection Grand Hotel Palazzo dei Dogi, Fondamenta Madona de l’Orto, Cannaregio 3500
Discover the palace and botanical garden with architect and historian Raffaele Dessì.
At 4 pm
We will spend an afternoon with BVL Venezia by Giulia Bevilacqua and Gaiofatto by Michela Gaiofatto. These fashion brands will feature upcycling, fabric printing, and tailoring activities and share their artisanal knowledge with the community of Venetian creatives, called to create scenarios to imagine the future.
Upcycling Workshop with brands: Ramosalso by Demis Marin, Alessandra Micolucci, Made with Patience by Daniela Lombardo, and Maranteghe.
From 5 pm to 6 pm
A tea with The Travel News and The Italy Insider and the brands of Venice Fashion Week.
Antonia Sautter Atelier at 6 pm
The haute couture dresses by Antonia Sautter become marine animals and ocean inhabitants: the Venetian artist and designer Antonia Sautter presents her fashion creations made with fabrics made of natural fibre, dyed with plant or mineral pigments and printed by hand.
Venice Fashion Week Research Edition 2023
Venice Fashion Week is part of Le Città in Festa of the Municipality of Venice. It is a project of Venezia da Vivere with the patronage of the Municipality of Venice, Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte, Tavolo Veneto della Moda (Confindustria, CNA; Confartigianato, Confesercenti, Confcommercio). The conference on Venezia Turismo Sostenibile is with the patronage of Univestita Ca’ Foscari Venezia.
Partners: Vela – Venezia Unica, C.L.A.S.S. Creativity Lifestyle And Sustainable Synergy, Ca’ Foscari Alumni, Associazione Piazza San Marco, How Do We Meet, Moodart School of Fashion Communication.
Media partner: The Travel News, The Italy Insider, Marketers Club, Illuminem, E’NordEst, The Italian Rêve, Germana Cabrelle Press Office.
Thanks to Venissa, Bellini by Canella, Caffè Al Todaro, Hotel Palazzo Sagredo, The Venice Venice Hotel, Hotel Metropole, NH Collection Grand Hotel Palazzo dei Dogi, Londra Palace Venezia.
Photo by Marta Formentello and Igor Sedyukov. Cover: courtesy by Tessitura Luigi Bevilacqua.
