Brazilian designers showcase women’s contemporary apparel, footwear and accessories to buyers, retailers, and distributors from around the globe

On the heels of New York Fashion Week, which concluded last week, ApexBrasil, the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency, is sponsoring 33 Brazilian women’s contemporary apparel, sportswear, footwear, handbags, and accessories brands that have converged in New York for COTERIE and MAGIC, two prominent fashion industry trade shows that happen in conjunction each year.

Since 1986, COTERIE has gathered designers, buyers, and sellers in the retail and fashion industries from around the world to make connections and forge business relationships. COTERIE features women’s contemporary and advanced contemporary apparel, accessories, and footwear, this year taking place in New York at the Javits Center from September 18-20. Alongside COTERIE is the MAGIC trade show, which has a focus on the East Coast U.S. market specifically and showcases modern sportswear, footwear, and accessories categories.

Together with Brazilian Footwear, an export incentive program that was created in partnership between ApexBrasil and Abicalçados with the mission of increasing the presence of the Brazilian footwear industry and its brands in the international market; Abest, a group that serves a similar mission for Brazilian fashion brands; and Texbrasil, a program for the textile and fashion industry specifically that was created by ApexBrasil and Abit, ApexBrasil is bringing Brazil’s designs to the U.S. buyers attending COTERIE and MAGIC at an important time. Trade relationships around the world are changing as a result of geopolitical events.