Bangalore Fashion Week April 2027: Dates, How to Get In, and the After Parties

Bangalore Fashion Week's 28th edition is dated: 22 to 25 April 2027, again at Aldovia Resort & Convention on New Airport Road. Unlike most Indian fashion weeks, it has a guest list that anyone can ask to join — registrations for April are not open yet, but you can register your interest now. If you have ever wanted to sit at an Indian fashion week and assumed it was impossible, this is the one to try. Below the guide is a record of the 27th edition, which ran in October 2026.

Can you attend?

Yes — and this is genuinely unusual, so it is worth being precise about how it works.

Bangalore Fashion Week operates a guest list you can request a place on. You submit your details, a guest-listing team reviews the request, and if approved the invite arrives a few days before the event. There is no public ticket counter and no guarantee, but there is a door, and it is one you can knock on yourself.

That is the opposite of how most Indian fashion weeks work. At Lakmé, access is invitation and accreditation only, with no route for a member of the public at all.

Every way in, and who each one is for

Participation here is not one door. The organisers run parallel routes for different people. On 26 October 2026 the guest list, Influencer Club, press and exhibitor forms all read "Opening Soon", with a button to register your interest on WhatsApp; the model registration was open. The guest list page also links a paid VIP Access option for anyone who wants guaranteed entry.

The guest list, in practice

The form asks for your affiliation or company, name, designation and contact details. That framing tells you what the list is for: it is an industry and invited-audience list rather than a general public ballot. You do not have to work in fashion to ask, but the request is read by a person, so giving them a reason is sensible.

The Influencer Club

If you make fashion or lifestyle content, this is the more direct route. The organisers review profiles and, on approval, include you with full access to the show. One hard requirement stated on the page: your Instagram must be public. A private account cannot be assessed and will not be.

Press

If you write for a publication, media accreditation is requested through the press form and handled by the PR team.

Exhibiting

Brands can take space in the Experience Zone, which is pitched at buyers, media and luxury consumers rather than at the runway audience. The event docket, floor plan and application form are sent by email and WhatsApp on enquiry.

The after parties

Bangalore Fashion Week closes each show day with after parties — run with Kingfisher Ultra at the 27th edition — bringing together designers, models, sponsors and guests. The organisers describe access as included with select passes, and point people to the guest list to obtain one.

This matters more than it sounds. At most fashion weeks the surrounding parties are the genuinely social part of the week and the hardest thing to find your way into. Here they are at least documented, and attached to a route you can request.

The 27th edition, October 2026, for the record

The 27th edition ran from 15 to 18 October 2026 at Aldovia Resort & Convention, overlapping Lakmé Fashion Week in Delhi. Shows ran across four days from 2:00 PM: each day opened with a Student Program, moved through solo and double shows, ended with a day finale, and was followed by an after party. This was the organiser's published schedule as of 9 October 2026.

The grand finale was Rina Dhaka on Sunday 18 October at 8:00 PM. The April 2027 schedule on the organiser's site follows the same four-day shape, with each day closing in an after party from 9:30 PM.

Getting there

The venue is Aldovia Resort & Convention (formerly Clarks Exotica), a 70-acre resort at Swiss Town, Sadahalli, on New Airport Road. The organiser describes it as 15 minutes from Bengaluru airport, which also means it is a long way north of the city centre — if you are coming from central Bangalore, allow well over an hour in evening traffic. The organiser's venue page lists nearby hotels.

Before you rely on this

Everything above was read directly from the organiser's own site: first on 11 September 2026, then the Venue and Schedule pages again on 9 October 2026 (the venue had changed and the designer schedule had been published), and the Venue, Schedule, Guest List, Influencer Club, Press, Exhibit and Models pages on 26 October 2026, when the 28th edition's dates appeared. Where the site states something we have stated it; where it does not — ticket prices, application deadlines — this page says so rather than guessing.