FASHIONCLASH Festival

The FASHIONCLASH Festival returns to Maastricht for its 18th edition. At various locations across the city, designers, artists and performers from home and abroad will showcase their work. The festival focuses on a new generation of creators and brings together fashion with art, performance and other disciplines.

New perspectives on fashion and culture
FASHIONCLASH provides a platform for creators who use fashion to tell stories and explore social and cultural themes. During the festival, visitors are introduced to various forms of presentation, spread across venues in Maastricht.

For this edition’s campaign, FASHIONCLASH is collaborating with the Sudanese visual artist and photographer Hashim Nasr. In his images, he brings together African and Middle Eastern cultural traditions with a surrealist and avant-garde visual language. Traditional symbols, clothing, rituals and objects are given a new context, with themes such as heritage, identity, connection and change taking centre stage.

ProgrammeThe programme for the FASHIONCLASH Festival 2026 comprises exhibitions, fashion shows, films, performances and workshops. Spread across various locations in Maastricht, the programme includes the following events, amongst others:

• New Fashion Narratives – Bureau Europa: an exhibition in which young designers present their work and explore new perspectives on clothing and design.
• Fashion Film Programme – Lumière Cinema: a selection of international short fashion films exploring themes such as identity, culture and social developments. The Fashion Film Awards are also presented.
• The CLASH House – ENCI: ten young designers present their collections during live performances that bring together various artistic disciplines.
• CLASHLAB: a collaboration between a designer, a choreographer and a musician who are jointly developing a new performance.
• Fashion Makes Sense – Centre Céramique: exhibitions and workshops focusing on sustainability, inclusion and the reuse of clothing.
• Class of 2026 – The Social Hub: a programme in which a new generation of designers is given the opportunity to present their work and ideas.
• Amarte x FASHIONCLASH – ‘ Jan van Eyck Academie ’: a programme in which creators from various disciplines collaborate and experiment with new forms of presentation.

View the full programme at www.fashionclash.nl.