The new edition of FASHIONCLASH arrived in Maastricht with a confident sense of direction, turning the city into a wide network of performances, workshops and collective gatherings. This year’s program set its tone through an active exchange between designers, performers and local communities. It offered a structure where fashion gained strength through direct participation and a willingness to rethink how clothes, bodies and social space relate to one another.

At Bureau Europa, Ear to Ear by Júlia Galarza Arévalo invited the audience to listen with care. The performance framed the energy of New Fashion Narratives by placing sensitivity and focus at the center of the exhibition. The evening continued in The Social Hub atrium, where kirakira shaped the sonic atmosphere and ESSENCE carried the physical pulse of the night. These moments brought clarity to FASHIONCLASH’s interest in fashion as an evolving social practice grounded in movement, sound and collective presence.

At FASHIONCLASH Festival 2025, the Fashion Film Program brings forward six finalists whose films refuse complacency and question identity, power and belonging. The selection, chosen by a jury of Adriano Batista, Marcel Schlutt, Kateřina Hynková and Elie Inoue, includes The Feminine Urge (Lilian Brade, Phuong An Phi, Niclas Hasemann), SCAPEGOAT (Caspar Heijnneman, Daan Sanders), LIMINAL SPACE (Zhaodong Zeng), “Do I?” (James Nolan), Circle (Ferhat Ertan) and Motherfocking Art (Marloes IJpelaar/Club Lam).

Salt Murphy “Do I?”

Liminal Space

Meet The Soundscaper: The CLASH House

• ULTRA ORA with Après Nous: a vision of a water-altered society with new social classes that communicate through coded garments.
• Rakee Chen with Melody Atlas: an emotional passage shaped by music-generated textile forms and physical movement.
• POViS with a Lithuanian riddle study: a poetic view on autonomy, heritage and the pull of tradition.
• Thibault Villard and Maxence Guenin with untitled (bassline II): textile research paired with handmade sound systems to create a raw, immediate language.
• EMIRHAKIN and David Siepman with Once it is a memory, it is too late: a sensorial performance built on breath, recollection and desire.
• CLASHLAB with Lioba Benold, Shu Jantje and Jelle Huizinga: a collaborative ten-minute work shaped through intuition across fashion, dance and music.

Fashion Hack the Binary invited guests to bring a garment and carve new identities through their own hands, guided by genderswap and Santi Babi. ProtestxFashion extended the conversation, asking participants to design for the future of civic action through materials and imagination. At Centre Céramique, the Upcycling Blue Garment Workshop shifted attention toward second-hand textiles, mending and renewal. Het Werkgebouw offered sessions in silversmithing with Kristy Bujanic and Sophie Vandooren, followed by a Banner Bag Workshop by gescher + brosky using leftover materials shaped into sharp origami-style pieces.