The CLASH House & CLASHLAB
The CLASH House is the festival’s fashion performance programme and one of the highlights of FASHIONCLASH Festival. Taking place on Saturday evening, 14 November, in the impressive Peutz Hall at ENCI in Maastricht, the programme brings together fashion and performance in a dynamic showcase of new work.
The CLASH House serves as a showcase and development platform for emerging makers working across fashion and performance. Through a creative coaching trajectory, ten participants explore alternative ways of creating and presenting fashion, culminating in live performances during the festival. On the evening, Nouka Rous, Paco Teepe, Isa Hazelager, Anna Strengers, Emma Magermans, Larissa de Jager, Dies van Herk, Amy Pratt, Aron Saxe Lydon and Soojeong Lee present their collections through performance.
Thanks to the support of the Meester Koetsier Foundation, one of the participants will receive a grant of €2,500.
The second award is the FASHIONCLASH Festival 2026 TIM Award, which offers a development prize supported by Textile Innovation Maastricht, with a value of up to €1,500 excl. VAT. The prize includes access to the machinery and knitting facilities at Qeske Maastricht, expert guidance, and materials to further develop the winning design.
As a pre-programme to The CLASH House, CLASHLAB brings together makers from fashion, dance and music as equal creative partners. Rather than placing one discipline in service of another, they work together from the start, allowing their ideas, methods and practices to influence and challenge one another.
For the 2026 edition, fashion designer Teun Seuren, choreographer Daniëlle Huyghe and musician Nader Adabnejad come together during a two-week residency to develop a short performance. The outcome is not defined in advance: through experimentation and exchange, the three makers discover what emerges from the encounter between their different disciplines.
CLASHLAB is a collaboration between FASHIONCLASH, Musica Sacra, Nederlandse Dansdagen, SALLY, Intro in Situ, schrit_tmacher Festival, Munttheater and Via Zuid, creating space for artistic experimentation, talent development and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
CLASHLAB is made possible in part by Stichting Kanunnik Salden and De Hustinx Stichting.
