On Wednesday May 7th 2025 at 4:30 PM (16:30 CEST) Het Cultuurfonds and the Dutch Fashion Foundation announce the new recipient of the Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium. During a special presentation at the church of cultural free-haven Ruigoord in Amsterdam the stipendium of 50.000 euro will be granted for the 14th time to one of the best Dutch fashion designers of this moment.

The Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium for exceptionally and advanced Dutch fashion designers was established in 2011 by an anonymous benefactor at Het Cultuurfonds.

On Tuesday October 15th 2024, Dutch fashion designer Camiel Fortgens received Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium Edition 13! The Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium is organized by the Cultuurfonds and the Dutch Fashion Foundation and consists of a financial incentive of €50.000 euro, made available by an anonymous benefactor, and a passed-on trophy designed by Atelier Ted Noten.

The Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium was celebrated at the Nieuwe Liefde in Amsterdam and could also be viewed online with a live stream on the website of the Dutch Fashion Foundation.

Mohamed Benchellal is the recipient of the Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium Edition 12! The Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium is organized by the Cultuurfonds and the Dutch Fashion Foundation and consists of a financial incentive of €50.000 euro, made available by an anonymous benefactor, and a passed-on trophy designed by Atelier Ted Noten.

The Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium was celebrated on Wednesday November 29th 2023 at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and could also be viewed online with a live stream on the website of the Dutch Fashion Foundation.

MAISON the FAUX, the label of designers Joris Suk and Tessa de Boer is the recipient of the Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium Edition 11! The Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium is organized by the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and the Dutch Fashion Foundation and consists of a financial incentive of €50.000 euro, made available by an anonymous benefactor, and a passed-on trophy designed by Atelier Ted Noten.

The Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium Edition 11 was celebrated on Wednesday June 22nd in the Hermitage Amsterdam and could also be viewed online through a live stream on the website of the Dutch Fashion Foundation.

The ‘Fashion & I’ 2021 One-day Online Fashion Festival was held on June 15th 2021 with a live-stream hosted from Felix Meritis in Amsterdam celebrating 10 years of Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium and 20 years of Dutch Fashion Foundation.

It was a day filled with memorable hot topic talks on fashion we had with our dream line up, including Suzy Menkes, Vanessa Friedman, Bethann Hardison, Isabel Marant, Jérôme Dreyfuss, Barbara Franchin, Bliss Foster, JOFF and all our amazing panel members from the Dutch fashion field, and of course the ceremony of the Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium.

Here you find an overview of every presentation and project the Dutch Fashion Foundation has organized since 2000.

The Dutch Fashion Awards, the international campaign Dutch Touch, the Prelude fashion salons, and more!

Who will be the 10th Dutch fashion designer to receive the career boosting stipend of € 50.000,- and the iconic trophy designed by Studio Ted Noten from the former recipient Erik Frenken?

To celebrate our past we turn to the future! We believe in the strength of intergenerational exchange. Therefore, DFF offered a Pro Fashion GIF workshop to Dutch fashion students, and invited them to revive our archive and share their take on recent Dutch fashion history.

You can’t ponder the future, without considering the past. What has been happening in Dutch fashion for the past 25 years?

The Dutch Fashion Foundation (DFF) supports the social and cultural role of Dutch fashion on a national and international level by offering platforms for presentation, connection and knowledge exchange.

Based in Amsterdam, DFF is part of a network of the most talented Dutch fashion designers.

In 2000 the Dutch Fashion Foundation (DFF) emerges out of a growing need for the development of a Dutch fashion climate.

Angélique Westerhof, co-creator and director of the master course Fashion Institute Arnhem, perceived that graduated fashion designers experienced difficulties in presenting collections on their own, starting their own label and creating a connection with the international fashion industry. She established the Dutch Fashion Foundation to activate a collective, self organizing Dutch fashion discipline.

23 years of Dutch Fashion Foundation projects has grown an amazing family of fashion designers and a ‘second skin’ of creative and facilitating talents. Together they make up the blueprint for Dutch fashion today.