NC State Fashion Week (April 19-25, 2026) is a campuswide celebration of creativity, innovation and design excellence. The worlds of fashion, textiles, art, technology and design will come together to create a dynamic week of runway shows, exhibitions and community events, including Art2Wear, the AATS Fashion Exposé and the Emerging Designers Runway Show and Textile Showcase.

Full Event Lineup

April 19-22 // Emerging Designers Textile Showcase
April 20 // AATS Fashion Exposé
April 21 // Kiana Bonollo: How I Built a Fashion Career Using Social Media
April 21 // Art2Wear: Open Studio
April 21 // Fashion Week Screening and Artist Talk: Whose Woods Are These
April 22 // TEXcycle: Textiles Recycling Earth Day Event
April 22 // Greater Good Textile Group Clothing Swap
April 23 // Century of Designers: From Worth to the World
April 23-24 // Art2Wear: Symbiosis
April 25 // Emerging Designers Runway Show

Signature Events

AATS Fashion Exposé // African American Textile Society

The African American Textile Society (AATS) Fashion Exposé features handmade collections by students from NC State and surrounding colleges in a runway-style competition. The Fashion Exposé is the longest-running fashion show at NC State and is hosted by AATS, a student organization at the Wilson College of Textiles.

Art2Wear // College of Design 

Art2Wear (A2W) is an educational event where students gain experience by coordinating and producing an annual wearable art production. Young designers are challenged to imagine, create, and inspire by expressing their point of view through wearable art. This highly anticipated show fuses the talents of several departments in the College of Design and beyond, exposing student designers to the broader field of wearable art, digital media production, and fashion. 

Emerging Designers Runway Show and Textile Showcase // Wilson College of Textiles

The Emerging Designers Runway Show and Textile Showcase celebrates collections made during the capstone course for students majoring in fashion and textile design (FTD).

For the Emerging Designers Runway Show, students studying fashion design send collections down the runway during a show at Talley Student Union. Collections range from ready-to-wear to avant-garde.

The Emerging Designers Textile Showcase will feature displays of collections of home textiles, apparel, fiber art and more made by seniors of the textile design concentration during an exhibition in the Textiles Complex on NC State’s Centennial Campus.