7 free Melbourne Fashion Week 2025 events on ArtsHub’s radar

The best free events to check out this Melbourne Fashion Week, from 20 to 26 October 2025.
Melbourne fashion week. Photo of a model wearing a garment made out of ute bags posing.

Get a close-up view of the Wicked costumes worn by lead characters Elphaba and Glinda in this Australia-first exhibition at Fed Square. The exhibition offers a teaser for the extravaganza that’s to come in Wicked: For Good.

Artist and designer Louise Marson will be taking over a shop window at Queen Victoria Market with a display that transforms market waste and discarded oyster farm materials into wearable pieces and fashion statements. A free talk will accompany the pop-up on 25 and 26 October at 12pm.

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_