Monte-Carlo Fashion Week focused on responsible innovation, while Singapore launched its first-ever Circular Fashion Week — with both events making the case that circular fashion has gone global.
Monaco and Singapore spent the last two weeks making the case for circular fashion, from very different angles and very different runways, but both showcasing that responsible design has outgrown its niche.
Monte-Carlo Fashion Week, the official fashion event of the Principality of Monaco, ran April 14–18 with sustainability running through every day of its programming as the event’s declared organizing principle. Federica Nardoni Spinetta, President and Founder of the event and the Chambre Monégasque de la Mode, opened the week at the Mairie with Monaco Mayor Georges Marsan. “This edition of the Monte-Carlo Fashion Week represents a key moment to promote an increasingly conscious and responsible fashion, capable of combining aesthetics, innovation, and ethical values,” she said. “Our goal is to continue to promote talents and visions that can have a positive impact on the entire fashion system.”
Monte-Carlo sets the tone for luxury
April 16 brought what may have been the week’s most substantive session: a roundtable at the Yacht Club de Monaco, organized in partnership with the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, that brought designers and sustainability experts into the same room. Among the featured voices were French designer Célia Roussin, who transforms vineyard byproducts into wearable materials, and Runa Ray of Kelptex, whose work centers on biodegradable textiles made from seaweed and waste.
The Fashion Awards Ceremony and Gala Dinner on April 17, held at the Grimaldi Forum, included the Positive Change Award honoring designers committed to a more sustainable future in fashion, alongside the headline Monte-Carlo Fashion Week Award 2026, presented to Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio, Chief Strategy Officer of EssilorLuxottica and President of Ray-Ban. “This recognition confirms the relevance of the path we have chosen and gives us renewed momentum,” Del Vecchio said. “We will continue to place people, innovation, responsibility and accessibility at the heart of everything we do.”
The evening also included the Positive Change Award, honoring designers and brands committed to a more sustainable future in fashion — a category that, in the context of Monte-Carlo’s positioning, carries considerable weight. The week’s programming combined runway presentations from a range of designers with panels and talks, reinforcing sustainability.
The grand finale on April 18 featured international labels alongside Monegasque brand Beach and Cashmere Monaco, which showed with a focus on circularity, and Portuguese designer Diana Mara, whose eco-sustainable creations closed the week on the same terms it opened. British designer Macy Grimshaw — a Central Saint Martins graduate — brought the closing show.
Singapore’s first Circular Fashion Week
Three days later, Singapore opened its first-ever Circular Fashion Week — a five-day showcase organized by sustainable fashion hub The Fashion Pulpit, running through April 26, with a runway, a marketplace, and a speaker series built entirely around the circular economy in Southeast Asia.
Singapore’s Circular Fashion Week, organized by The Fashion Pulpit, is a different kind of event — grassroots in spirit and regional in scope, with a focus on brands from across Southeast Asia that are building circular fashion businesses from the ground up. The five-day program opens April 22 at The Fashion Pulpit’s home at 298 Jalan Besar in Singapore, and runs through April 26.
The week’s signature event, the Circular Fashion Runway, takes place on April 23 at Allenby House. Six brands from three countries are presenting: Singapore’s A Vintage Tale and Peya Rework and Playdate, Indonesia’s Setali and Pijakbumi, and the Philippines’ And Again Clothing — each built on resale, upcycling, or circular design as its core logic, not as a sustainability add-on.
The talks program, running April 24 at 180 Kitchener Road, brings together founders and creators from the circular fashion community. Featured voices include Vania Audrey Pakpahan, co-founder of Pijakbumi, and content creator Qilah Rose, speaking to both the mechanics of circular business models and what practicing circularity looks like in a wardrobe, not just on a supply chain.
The Circular Fashion Marketplace, running throughout the week, gives shoppers direct access to And Again Clothing, Setali, Pijakbumi, and other regional circular brands. A Circular Fashion Week Trail offers week-long discounts across 10 participating circular fashion stores in Singapore.
What Singapore makes visible is a circular fashion ecosystem in Southeast Asia that has been building largely outside of Western industry coverage. Brands like Pijakbumi and And Again Clothing are not emerging from press-friendly launch moments — they are operating in regional markets, solving local supply chain problems, and developing circular models rooted in the materials, labor, and consumer habits of their own contexts.
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