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Spring Fair 2026 is shaping up to be unlike any trade show experience you've had before. With less than a week away from opening the doors, we've pulled back the curtain on some of the most exciting elements you can expect when you visit this spring. From revolutionary new stages to reimagined support for independent retailers, here's your insider's look at what's brewing.
1-to-1 Mentoring: Your Personal Business Audit
You can book 1-to-1 sessions with retail experts who'll help you work through specific business challenges. Whether you're struggling with stock management, looking to refresh your merchandising approach, or trying to figure out how to drive more footfall, these aren't generic masterclasses, they're personalised sessions designed around your actual business.
Retail Huddle Live: Kick Start 2026
Designed to get the year off to a proper start. This brings together independent retailers and small business owners for peer-to-peer learning and strategic planning sessions. With the chance to book short, focused appointments with some of the SME industry’s leading minds. Designed to give you practical, actionable insight challenges.
Exclusive live content
Bringing the industry’s most influential voices together. Visitors will get a front-row seat to trend insights, live showcases and headline talks across five reimagined stages, featuring masterclasses, interviews and Q&A sessions built to inspire action.
The Shoot That Stops the Show
What really goes into creating a fashion campaign? Visitors are invited behind the scenes as a live campaign shoot unfolds on the Style Atelier stage.
Led by fashion stylist Rebekah Roy and Paul Swaby, Director of Cult of Fashion, this session turns the creative process into a live experience. Models are styled in real time, concepts evolve on the spot, and a full brand story is captured as it happens.
Part runway, part working studio, the shoot offers a rare look at the pace, decisions and collaboration behind campaign creation, before the edits, retouching and final polish.
The Licensing Lab:
Expect interactive workshops with licensing leaders, roundtable discussions connecting retailers with potential partners, and hands-on exploration of how intellectual property can become a catalyst for growth. Whether you're interested in exclusive brand partnerships or exploring white label opportunities, the Licensing Lab is positioning itself as the nerve centre for these conversations.
The Merchant's Corner:
The Merchant's Corner, styled as a quintessential British indie shopfront, is purpose-built for the unique challenges facing independent retailers, small multiples, and business owners navigating the modern retail landscape.
What makes this different? Pitch Live, a Dragons' Den-style format where you can present your business challenges directly to industry experts and get real-time feedback.
This is also where you'll find genuine support for the independent retail revival. Content and resources are specifically tailored for smaller operations, with emphasis on sustainable practices and community-focused retail strategies that make economic sense at independent scale.
The Design Studio:
For those in the homeware, furniture, and interiors space, the Design Studio sessions promise to be a revelation. In partnership with Fifty Five South, this isn't just another talks programme. It's a curated exploration of how spatial design, material innovation, and the psychology of retail spaces directly impact your bottom line.
The Style Atelier & Parlour
The Style Atelier & Parlour is a high-end creative studio where trend forecasting, professional styling, and live creative moments converge. We're talking trend presentations from industry experts, professional styling masterclasses, and keynote interviews with fashion icons who are actively shaping where retail is headed.
The Hidden Forum
Sometimes what you really need isn't another vendor pitch, it's access to the people shaping retail's future, having honest conversations about where the industry is going. The Hidden Forum, accessed through a tunnel and designed as an intimate minimalist theatre, hosts one Power Talk daily. Just one. But it features some of the most influential voices in UK retail.
The Numbers
- 38% exclusive brands
- 1500 suppliers
- 38,000+ buyers
Register Now
Registration is still open. Whether you want to attend Pitch Live at the Merchant's Corner, explore partnership opportunities at the Licensing Lab, book your mentoring clinic, or simply be part of the Retail Huddle Live conversation, you can secure your place now.
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