FASHIONCLASH Festival Returns for Its 18th Edition
by Adriano Batista
FASHIONCLASH Festival returns to Maastricht from 13 to 15 November 2026 for its 18th edition. The international and multidisciplinary fashion festival offers a platform to a new generation of designers, artists, and performers from the Netherlands and abroad, spread across various locations in the city.
The three-day programme includes performances, exhibitions, fashion shows, films, workshops, talks, and participatory projects. Over 100 emerging talents from more than 25 countries will present work across the festival. The Clash House fashion performance programme, one of the highlights, takes place on Saturday 14 November at the Peutzhal in ENCI, where ten designers will present collections in performance form. Participants include Nouka Rous, Paco Teepe, Isa Hazelager, Anna Strengers, Emma Magermans, Larissa de Jager, Dies van Herk, Amy Pratt, Aron Saxe Lydon, and Soojeong Lee. Thanks to the Meester Koetsier Foundation, a grant of €2,500 will be awarded to one of them.
Another highlight is the exhibition New Fashion Narratives, curated by Jamal Nxedlana, Karmen Samson, Welmoed Bosch, and Agatha Prieto Jeanty. The curatorial concept, titled Fleshy, slimy, wobbly, seeks out work that resists being pinned down, work that mutates and escapes easy categorisation. The four practitioners developed the concept during a Residency Week in April 2026, aiming to challenge the dominant systems of the fashion industry and make space for practices that move between forms. The exhibition reveals the unruly side of fashion, a tribute to everything that refuses to be neatly framed. The full programme will be announced after the summer.
The campaign for this year’s festival was developed by Hashim Nasr, a Sudanese visual artist and photographer based in Alexandria. Originally trained as a dentist, Nasr developed his conceptual and surrealist practice to explore themes of displacement, memory, and gender identity. The campaign brings together African and Middle Eastern cultural traditions through a surrealist visual language, transforming traditional symbols and rituals into dreamlike narratives. By gathering diverse cultural references in symbolic scenes, the project creates a space where heritage is not only preserved but reimagined.
The festival runs 13 to 15 November in Maastricht. Mark your calendar. Full details will be announced after the summer.
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