FASHIONCLASH Festival 2026

From 13–15 November 2026, FASHIONCLASH Festival returns to Maastricht for its 18th edition. Discover a three-day programme of fashion performances, exhibitions, films, talks and workshops, featuring emerging talent from over 25 countries.

FASHIONCLASH is an international and interdisciplinary platform for a new generation of fashion makers. Based in Maastricht, they support and present emerging designers, artists and performers working across fashion, textile, visual arts, performance and other disciplines.

New Fashion Narratives | Bureau Europa
New Fashion Narratives takes place at Bureau Europa and presents an exhibition curated by Jamal Nxedlana, Karmen Samson, Welmoed Bosch and Agatha Prieto Jeanty. Under the title ‘Fleshy, slimy, wobbly’, the exhibition brings together fashion practices that resist easy categorisation and move between forms, materials and disciplines.

The curatorial concept is developed during a Residency Week in April 2026, where the four fashion practitioners explore ways to challenge dominant systems within the fashion industry and create space for shapeshifting practices that escape fixed labels. The exhibition looks at fashion from a more fluid and unruly perspective, bringing together work that leaks, mutates and refuses to stay within familiar boundaries.

At Bureau Europa, visitors encounter a collection of practices that question what fashion can be, where it belongs and how it can take shape. New Fashion Narratives offers a tangible and unconventional exploration of fashion that is difficult to pin down — and all the more fascinating because of it.

Fashion Makes Sense | Centre Céramique
Fashion Makes Sense is FASHIONCLASH’s ongoing participatory programme dedicated to social design, inclusion and education. The programme connects professionals and non-professionals, especially young people, through collaborative creative processes.

The exhibition on the third floor of Centre Céramique presents the results of several participatory projects, including TexTiles, a community art project in which hundreds of people create individual textile tiles that come together as a collective artwork inspired by the Maastricht Treaty and the stories, perspectives and connections of the people of Maastricht.

The programme also features a presentation by Ecopolitan Magazine, the work of Kunstbende Fashion winner Yani Jongen, and costumes from the Stadsparade Helden, created by students of Scenografie & Kostuumontwerp at Toneelacademie Maastricht.(Demi Overmars, Roana Svetlik, Merlijn Vermeulen, Kyra Frijnts, Katharina Krämer, Manon Peters, Mats Gerrards, Sigrid Gerritse)

Teigetje&Woelrat | Galerie Post + García
Located in Maastricht’s Céramique district, Galerie Post + García is a gallery for international contemporary art, presenting a diverse range of established and emerging artists. During FASHIONCLASH Festival, the gallery opens its space to the distinctive world of Amsterdam-based fashion studio Teigetje&Woelrat.

With a practice spanning more than 50 years, Teigetje&Woelrat moves between tradition and experimentation. Knitwear lies at the heart of their work, combined with leather, bold colours, geometric patterns and expressive shapes. Working from thread to finished garment, the studio creates every piece themselves, with craftsmanship and hands-on making at the core.

For FASHIONCLASH, Teigetje&Woelrat Collection explores the space between contemporary fashion and the playful, extravagant spirit of carnival. A colourful and tactile collection where knitwear, leather and bold gestures come together.

The Class of 2026 | Social Hub Atrium
Class of 2026 presents a selection of emerging designers who graduated in 2026. What connects this diverse group of young makers is their commitment to storytelling through fashion—drawing on personal heritage, cultural memory, experimental techniques and social commentary. Each designer transforms intimate experiences and critical questions into wearable narratives that challenge conventional fashion systems. The makers exhibited: Storm Nijhuis, Roze Goud, Roos Adjustable Design, Mare Langen, Kelly Cecilie Foss, Kaat van Spaendonck, JJAYCE, Nia Millano, Elia Anania, Casper Naafs, Arthur Wagenaar, and Anne Prins.