The festival will provide the first full-scale showcase of the 24,000 sq ft venue
Manchester Fashion Week is set to launch Campfield Studios, the major new production and events space at Campfield that is designed to support everything from studio shoots to editing and collaborative work, when it returns to Manchester’s St. John’s district from 9-12 September 2026.
Located inside the historic Upper Campfield Market Hall, Campfield Studios brings together infrastructure for media, content, broadcast, fashion, e-commerce and audio production, alongside a versatile, working events space. The venue combines a striking large central atrium beneath an iconic glass-roofed complete with a large-format LED wall, a ground floor production studio featuring a range of interchangeable backdrops, a professional lighting rig and an adjoining gallery space, plus three wraparound daylight and production studios on the mezzanine.
Manchester Fashion Week will be its first full-scale public showcase as a standalone destination available for external production and event hire in the city.
Throughout its four-day programme, Campfield Studios will become the stage for industry talks, workshops, pop-up shops, designer presentations and live runway events, with fashion photography photoshoots in the daylight studios, allowing prospective hirers to see the venue in action.
It’ll bring together some of fashion’s most influential established and emerging voices, including legendary designer and activist Katharine Hamnett, London Fashion Week pioneer Lynne Franks OBE, celebrity-favourite Manchester designer Mariusz Malon, leading fashion journalist Tamsin Blanchard, adaptive-fashion pioneer Victoria Jenkins and Great British Sewing Bee winner Luke-Matthew Iveson.
Clare Shutt, head of marketing at Campfield, said: “Manchester Fashion Week is the ideal way to introduce Campfield Studios because people can see the space doing what it was designed to do.”
“It will be exciting to watch the venue transform across the week, hosting different audiences and formats that show just how adaptable the space can be. St. John’s has always been at the heart of Manchester’s creative industries, and Campfield Studios is a new space for companies to host, experiment and create in.”
While Campfield opened in 2025 as a technology, media and creative campus, this is the first time its Studios offering has been formally introduced as a full-scale event space.
The Manchester Fashion Week team is based at Campfield, and the event itself demonstrates how the wider campus is supporting creative businesses from workspace through to production and public-facing moments.
Gemma Gratton, executive producer of Manchester Fashion Week, added: “Campfield Studios gives us the flexibility we need to bring together fashion, technology, education and industry conversation within one distinctive setting.
“Our team is based at Campfield, too, so we know first-hand what it offers creative businesses. Hosting part of Manchester Fashion Week here feels like a natural extension of that relationship and an opportunity to show what can be created in the space.”
For the full Manchester Fashion Week programme, visit: fashionweekmanchester.co.uk.
