New York International Bridal Week Spring 2023 Season Pre-coverage

New York International Bridal Week is almost here. And this Bridal Week promises to be a comeback week of sorts.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Bridal Week like other fashion weeks has been under tremendous pressure. Gone were the runway shows and presentations that are the bread and butter, so to speak of fashion week. In place of live presentations, Bridal Week had to settle for digital presentations. Although these digital presentations were the only option during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, they were a sad replacement for Bridal Week had come to be known for.

Unlike New York Fashion Week (NYFW), Bridal Week never succumbed to a massive media invasion of media outlets, celebrities, and social media influencers eager to garner as much press for themselves as possible. Bridal Week has always been about bridal collections, showcased for industry professionals minus the media circus that is so endemic to NYFW.

Because Bridal Week has been about the bridal product, digital fashion presentations harshly diminished the industry’s ability to conduct business as usual. Bridal editors and journalists, buyers, wedding planners, and bridal boutique owners need to witness the bridal collections up close and personal to satisfy the ever-changing palettes of bridal consumers. Unlike NYFW, which can create and entire media explosion about primping and posing for the camera, Bridal Week marches to a very different fashion drumbeat.

Though this season promises to be different than pre-COVID pandemic seasons, there will be a plethora of in-person appointments, presentations, and a few runway shows, thrown in for good measure, to go around. Bridal brands that are expected to present for the spring 2023 season—bridal collections are always shown a year in advance—include Reem Acra, THEIA, Ines di Santo, Sachin & Babi, Justin Alexander, Savannah Miller, Mark Ingram, Anne Barge, Amsale, Nadia Manjarrez, JLM Couture, and many others.

Fashion Reverie promises our readers that we will be front and center, bringing all the fashion news and dynamic bridal presentations of New York International Bridal Week spring 2023 season. Stay tuned!!

Staff