Portugal Fashion is once again holding the Bloom Competition, which is aimed at new talents in Portuguese fashion, giving the winners financial, technical and strategic support for their integration into the professional circuit of the sector. Entries for the competition will be accepted up to 1 November. It is directed at young designers, and the winners are eligible to take part in Portugal Fashion in October 2018 and March 2019, on a catwalk set aside solely for the Bloom project.

Portugal Fashion returned to London Fashion Week, in what was the second fashion stop on its international roadshow to present the Spring/Summer 2018 proposals. Once again, Alexandra Moura had her presence guaranteed at London Fashion Week, one of her main international exhibition stages, where she presented her collection at The Welsh Chapel, on 17 September.

After Paris and Milan menswear fashion weeks in June Portugal Fashion headed to New York. The North American fashion stop declared the Spring/Summer 2018 season officially open (as regards women’s wear fashion weeks), with fashion shows by Katty Xiomara and Miguel Vieira at New York Fashion Week. The collections by designer Katty Xiomara for the next spring/summer season were unveiled at Pier 59 Studios (Studio A) on 11 September. The following day, at the same venue, but this time in Studio C, it was the turn of Miguel Vieira's creations to take to the catwalk. It’s the third consecutive season that Portugal Fashion participates in New York Fashion Week, exactly one year after the participation which brought to an end its 15-year hiatus in holding fashion shows in the capital.