Yahoo News London Fashion Week is now open to the public: here's how to get your hands on a ticket
![London Fashion Week is a biannual industry event in which the world’s designers, editors, buyers and influencers flock to the capital to see the trends we’ll all be wearing next season.Unless you are one of those fashion industry insiders it has, until recently, been nigh on impossible to get a ticket to one of the runway shows.Today, however, the British Fashion Council has announced it will be the first of the four fashion weeks globally (the others are New York, Milan and Paris) to open its doors, at least partially, to the public.Come September 2019, the BFC is extending the traditional fashion week schedule to ‘increase engagement and reach new audiences for designer businesses.’For the fashion industry folk, very little has changed. Their insider-only event will continue to run for five days from September 13 – 17, 2019.[[gallery-0]] Separately from that, the public will now be able to purchase a ticket to one of the six special runway shows that are set to take place in the official London Fashion Week Hub over Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 September 2019.Those wishing to attend will have to decide which show they want to see, and then they can purchase a ticket for that show which includes a two-hour window of access to the BFC Showspace. Standard tickets are priced at £135 for the two hours, while those that want to sit Front Row at a show can buy FROW ticket for £245. Included within this ticket price is access to one industry-led panel discussion, access to the DiscoveryLAB, an experiential space where fashion meets art, fashion and music, and access to a brand new Designer Exhibition, where the creative work of progressive designers explores the most compelling stories around sustainability, community and ethics.There will also be a VIP café serving complimentary drinks and lunch and all attendees will receive a goodie bag packed with lots of fashion and beauty goodness.Anyone wishing to sit FROW at all six shows will have to buy six separate tickets, and cough up a total of £1470.Tickets are already on sale here but it’ll be a few weeks before the BFC confirm which designers are showing at each of the six slots.Stay tuned for more...To buy tickets to one of the six new format London Fashion Week shows, click here.](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/4FASJ5YCBHPSuidND7R8Cw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MA--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/evening_standard_239/f711bb9e963c376f6a0db7b0d7e844be)
![London Fashion Week is a biannual industry event in which the world’s designers, editors, buyers and influencers flock to the capital to see the trends we’ll all be wearing next season.Unless you are one of those fashion industry insiders it has, until recently, been nigh on impossible to get a ticket to one of the runway shows.Today, however, the British Fashion Council has announced it will be the first of the four fashion weeks globally (the others are New York, Milan and Paris) to open its doors, at least partially, to the public.Come September 2019, the BFC is extending the traditional fashion week schedule to ‘increase engagement and reach new audiences for designer businesses.’For the fashion industry folk, very little has changed. Their insider-only event will continue to run for five days from September 13 – 17, 2019.[[gallery-0]] Separately from that, the public will now be able to purchase a ticket to one of the six special runway shows that are set to take place in the official London Fashion Week Hub over Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 September 2019.Those wishing to attend will have to decide which show they want to see, and then they can purchase a ticket for that show which includes a two-hour window of access to the BFC Showspace. Standard tickets are priced at £135 for the two hours, while those that want to sit Front Row at a show can buy FROW ticket for £245. Included within this ticket price is access to one industry-led panel discussion, access to the DiscoveryLAB, an experiential space where fashion meets art, fashion and music, and access to a brand new Designer Exhibition, where the creative work of progressive designers explores the most compelling stories around sustainability, community and ethics.There will also be a VIP café serving complimentary drinks and lunch and all attendees will receive a goodie bag packed with lots of fashion and beauty goodness.Anyone wishing to sit FROW at all six shows will have to buy six separate tickets, and cough up a total of £1470.Tickets are already on sale here but it’ll be a few weeks before the BFC confirm which designers are showing at each of the six slots.Stay tuned for more...To buy tickets to one of the six new format London Fashion Week shows, click here.](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/HDa_NCiWUmr9VZTgId_Qhw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MA--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/evening_standard_239/6b732afe92cb6884c28ab84c150c591c)
London Fashion Week is a biannual industry event in which the world’s designers, editors, buyers and influencers flock to the capital to see the trends we’ll all be wearing next season.
Unless you are one of those fashion industry insiders it has, until recently, been nigh on impossible to get a ticket to one of the runway shows.
Today, however, the British Fashion Council has announced it will be the first of the four fashion weeks globally (the others are New York, Milan and Paris) to open its doors, at least partially, to the public.
Come September 2019, the BFC is extending the traditional fashion week schedule to ‘increase engagement and reach new audiences for designer businesses.’
For the fashion industry folk, very little has changed. Their insider-only event will continue to run for five days from September 13 – 17, 2019.
[[gallery-0]]
Separately from that, the public will now be able to purchase a ticket to one of the six special runway shows that are set to take place in the official London Fashion Week Hub over Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 September 2019.
Those wishing to attend will have to decide which show they want to see, and then they can purchase a ticket for that show which includes a two-hour window of access to the BFC Showspace. Standard tickets are priced at £135 for the two hours, while those that want to sit Front Row at a show can buy FROW ticket for £245.
Included within this ticket price is access to one industry-led panel discussion, access to the DiscoveryLAB, an experiential space where fashion meets art, fashion and music, and access to a brand new Designer Exhibition, where the creative work of progressive designers explores the most compelling stories around sustainability, community and ethics.
There will also be a VIP café serving complimentary drinks and lunch and all attendees will receive a goodie bag packed with lots of fashion and beauty goodness.
Anyone wishing to sit FROW at all six shows will have to buy six separate tickets, and cough up a total of £1470.
Tickets are already on sale here but it’ll be a few weeks before the BFC confirm which designers are showing at each of the six slots.
Stay tuned for more...
To buy tickets to one of the six new format London Fashion Week shows, click here.
