The 4th bi-annual Chicago Fashion Week is scheduled for September 21st through September 28th. Designers will showcase their Spring and Summer 2008 collections.

If you are a designer, the deadline for applying for participation is September 1st, and you will need to complete this form.

The Czarina wholeheartedly endorses the idea that Chicago deserves its own spectacular fashion week. According to MW Productions, the mission of the event is to:

[…Support] Chicago’s EMERGING & ESTABLISHED FASHION DESIGNERS. Our goal is to honor this city’s evolving artists and stylists. Their talent, their creations, their techniques and the possibilities these brilliant artists produce.

We will not rest until we are able to place Chicago to where it deserves, after all, for years Chicago has dressed its inhabitants, working professional class, some of its celebrity personalities, socialites and fashionistas exceptionally well, yet credit has gone to other markets. It is about time that Chicago is graced by an event worthy of International recognition.

Watch the official Fashion Week website for your chance to purchase tickets for the fall show. You might just meet that next big designer – get your paws on some unique and stylish clothing before everyone else has even heard his name or read about her in InStyle.