Miami Fashion Week focuses on the clothes that make sense to show in Miami – resort wear. Miami has always been a resort wear kind-of –town. We lounge in bikinis year around and visitors can pack a book bag with two bathing suits and a cover-up and make it last a weekend. Even dressing up in Miami is a resort kind-of affair. You’ll never, ever need a coat around here and even a scarf or boots don’t get pulled out of the closet very often. It’s only logical that Miami Fashion Week is all about resort wear.

Miami Fashion Week takes place in mid-May on Miami Beach at the Miami Beach Convention Center. It’s the only fashion week that’s dedicated to resort and pre-spring collections. About twenty jewelry and accessory designers and more than thirty clothing designers from around the world took to the runway at the Convention Center. The Convention Center is transformed into a fashion hub and the grounds include a large runway space akin to the tents in New York, booths by smaller designers and accessory participants and culinary delights and demonstrations.

Miami Fashion Week, much like Miami, is influenced by the Miami’s connections to South and Central America. Designers from Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia and more show in droves and the event are highly influential in the Latin American design world and covered heavily by international press outlets.