About us
The European Fashion Council was established on 18-19 th of May, 2007, in Ancient Plovdiv, Bulgaria/EU by 11 European countries under the honorary patronage of the EU, represented by H.E. Michael HUMPHREYS (Ireland) as EU Ambassador and Head of the European Commission in Bulgaria.
The globalization of the contemporary European society requires prestigious and strong institutions in each
branch. The fashion art, to which all we – admirers and authors are devoted, is a part of the European culture and
global history. It is the most contemporary beautiful, constructive and uniting power, an example of tolerance,
cooperation and cultural and economics exchange.
Basing on a historic moment, in honour of the 50th anniversary of founding the European Union in
2007, we 11 nations founded the European Fashion Council as a representative non-governmental
organization for fashion and fashion design. At the recent moment the number of the member states is 28. Its aim is
through the present program Fashion HORIZON 2050 not only to build one of the beautiful faces of Europe, but
and to include and establish the FASHION as a significant factor in the European and Global calendar, together with
the education, sport and arts, cinema, theatre, music etc. in favour of united Europe and the world.
The important and increasing cultural and economic importance of fashion and fashion design in all of its
forms is in an unbreakable connection with other arts and sport. Its significance comes from the necessity of
supporting the young creators during their way of establishment still from the school-desk and their subsequent
connection with the industry. Therefore, with the long-term and comprehensive program fashion industry organize
and announce European Fashion Design as a solid base for a perspective development and interaction
between the cultures in Europe and generating other future initiatives at inside and above European
level. The program “Fashion HORIZON 2050” is prompted also from the necessity for investments in the cultural and
economic development of the new and approved names in the fashion design, with which we can maximally contribute
to the integration of each country member and other continents, not only in cultural, but also in economic and
international relation.
Through the active inscribing in 2010 of the fashion and fashion design in the European
calendar of strategy Europe 2020, and as an additional new cultural form from 2012 for implementation of
Convention EU-UNESCO for protection and development of new form of culture and the TVET
strategy 2022-2029 – the guide UNESCO-UNEVOC in the fields of education and training for develop
skills for all individuals to learn, work and live, we are tending for the maximum outside visibility of Europa
from innovative point of view. It is that, because the European Fashion Council Institution with its program and aims
is an innovation in the intercultural European and world dialogue.
FOUNDERS and MEMBERS by ROUTE of ACCESSION:
2007 – BULGARIA, the Kingdom of BELGIUM, the Kingdom of DENMARK, BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA, AUSTRIA, ESTONIA, UKRAINE, ALBANIA, the Kingdom of
NORWAY, ROMANIA, HUNGARY;
2008 – The NETHERLANDS, ICELAND;
2010 – MALTA, ARMENIA, LATVIA, CZECHIA;
2011 – The Kingdom of SWEDEN;
2012 – SERBIA;
2014 – PORTUGAL, MONTENEGRO, the North MACEDONIA;
2015 – GERMANY, SWITZERLAND;
2016 – IRELAND
2017 – MOLDOVA, FINLAND
2019 – the Kingdom of SPAIN