The first 2023 edition of Madrid’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week will be staged on February 15-19 at pavilion 14.1 of the Ifema Madrid exhibition centre, and elsewhere in the Spanish capital with its off-calendar programme.

As the organisers announced on Tuesday, MBFW will be back to its usual slot in the international fashion week calendar. The event will be holding its 77th edition in February as customary, after the pandemic forced the organisers to postpone previous sessions to March, in 2022, and April, in 2020.

A new edition that, though not yet “officially open to applications,” is already generating “high expectations” among Spanish fashion designers and “a high volume of participation requests,” far in excess of the numbers recorded at MBFW’s most recent pre-pandemic editions.