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The Madrid Fashion Week takes place in the capital of Spain. The city of Madrid, with over 3 million residents, old world and new world charm and beauty is the perfect backdrop for beautiful fashion and beautiful people. It is an opportunity for businesses, buyers, fashion enthusiasts and professionals to get together and celebrate Spanish and international fashion designers. It is a trade event and is organized by the IFEMA. It is a very good way for manufacturers and distributors to get together from around the world and see what Madrid has to offer in terms of fashion.

Recently, the Madrid fashion week made news when they began to require fashion models to have a BMI of over 18. Models who fail to meet this requirement are not allowed to participate in the fashion week. This decision was spawned by a very unfortunate event. A fashion model who had fasted in order to walk the runways in Madrid died shortly after she left the run way. This was a result heart failure associated with anorexia. To curtail these types of things from happening, the regional government moved to protect models from themselves and at the same time, provide a healthier image in the fashion industry. By making such a bold move, Madrid has placed itself ahead of many other major, fashion cities when it comes to coupling looking good and being healthy. Only time will tell if other major fashion cities will follow suit. While the Madrid move was applauded, not many other fashion shows adopted the same physical guidelines.

The next Madrid International Fashion Week will be July 17-19 in 2008. Two times a year, fashion week in Madrid is held at the Parque Ferial Juan Carlos Exhibition Center. For the country, it is their most popular and important fashion exhibition. It provides an opportunity for the country to showcase all types of clothing in all areas of the fashion industry. Fashion show guests will see models owning the runways in all types of clothing fashions. There will be party clothes, every-day clothes, sportswear, vanguard items, undergarments, plus side clothing and also teen clothes on display throughout the entire week.

Models wear clothing from popular, well known designers and also from those that have yet to become household names, but are of up and coming status. Spain is known in the clothing industry for having very high quality garments, which are also very competitively priced. This makes them extremely attractive to the international fashion market. Individuals who visit Madrid Fashion Week, will not only see local merchandise but also are likely to see a number of foreign exhibitors as well.

Madrid is a beautiful city in the beautiful country of Spain. It is also is one of the most well known fashion weeks in the world. Madrid is a great place to gather to enjoy delicious food, great scenery, festive people and beautiful designs and fashion. You can be confident that this fashion week is on the calendars of many in within the fashion industry as well as those that are great fans of fashion and fashion shows. There will likely be many celebrities, sports figures and socialites in attendance.