CHR Radar Miami: Fashion, Style & Culture | August 17–23, 2026
Miami style doesn't stay in one neighborhood. This week, the Radar moves from a Latino fashion runway in Doral to new London luxury in Bal Harbour and a celebration of Haitian beauty and culture in Little Haiti.
Welcome to the fashion side of CHR Radar, our weekly look at the people, places and ideas moving style in Miami.
Not everything on the Radar needs a velvet rope or a traditional runway. We are looking for fashion with a pulse: emerging designers, independent brands, street style, cultural identity, new retail concepts and the spaces where fashion crosses into music, art and nightlife.
Here are three worth knowing this week.
1. EXPOLOGY Miami 2026
Sunday, August 23 | 12 PM
Fire Tower, Doral
🔴 CHR RADAR PICK
Part fashion event, part business expo and part celebration of Miami's Latino creative community, EXPOLOGY Miami returns for its fifth anniversary on Sunday.
The event brings together entrepreneurs, brands and creators from across South Florida, with a live fashion runway, entertainment, food and networking built into the day. The organizers describe the event as a meeting point for fashion, business and Latino culture, and general admission registration is currently available free. (Expology Miami)
What caught our attention isn't simply the runway.
Miami fashion gets interesting when you move outside the traditional luxury-fashion orbit and look at the independent businesses and communities building their own audience. EXPOLOGY sits right in that space.
CHR Radar says: Watch the runway, but watch the room too. The next interesting Miami brand might not be arriving through a traditional fashion house.
2. Victoria Beckham Arrives in Bal Harbour
Open now | Bal Harbour Shops
Miami has another international fashion flag planted in the sand.
Victoria Beckham has opened the brand's first U.S. retail space at Bal Harbour Shops, bringing together ready-to-wear, accessories and Victoria Beckham Beauty. The temporary boutique opened this summer and is scheduled to remain through September 30. It also includes an exclusive bronze-colored capsule developed for the Miami location. (Bal Harbour Shops)
The bigger Radar story is what the opening says about Miami.
For years, the city has been steadily moving beyond its resort-fashion reputation. International houses increasingly see South Florida not simply as a seasonal shopping destination, but as its own luxury and cultural market.
Beckham choosing Miami for the label's first American retail space is another small but interesting signal.
CHR Radar says: Bal Harbour is polished. Miami is not always polished. That tension is exactly what makes the city's fashion identity interesting.
3. Miss Universe Haiti Competition 2026
Sunday, August 23 | 4–9 PM
Little Haiti Cultural Complex
Fashion is also culture, presentation and identity.
This Sunday, the Miss Universe Haiti Organization comes to the Little Haiti Cultural Complex to select Haiti's representative for the 2026 Miss Universe competition. Doors open at 3:30 PM, with the event scheduled from 4 to 9 PM. (Eventbrite)
For CHR Radar, the draw goes beyond pageantry.
Miami's Haitian community has had an enormous influence on the city's music, art, food and visual culture. An event centered in Little Haiti gives us another lens into how fashion, beauty and cultural identity intersect here.
CHR Radar says: Style gets more interesting when it tells you where someone comes from.
ON OUR RADAR
🔥 The Pick: EXPOLOGY Miami 2026🖤 The Fashion Move: Victoria Beckham at Bal Harbour🌴 The Culture Pick: Miss Universe Haiti Competition
Miami isn't experiencing one fashion moment this week.
It's experiencing three very different versions of one.
And that's the point.
CHR Radar is Crown Heights Radio's weekly edit of fashion, music, art, dance and culture moving through Miami.
