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.
Cultuurfonds Mode stipendium Edition 13
We congratulate Camiel Fortgens, the 13th recipient of the Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium!
Camiel Fortgens received the stipend, which consists of a financial contribution of 50.000 euro, made available by an anonymous benefactor and a pass-on trophy designed by Atelier Ted Noten, during a festive celebration on October 15th at De Nieuwe Liefde in Amsterdam. He receives the Stipendium for his no-nonsense approach, his consistent unisex collections with timeless designs, the quality and love for proportions and details, and the characteristic ‘perfect imperfection‘; making Camiel Fortgens a brand to be very proud of within the Dutch fashion family!
The Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium was established by a private patron and the Cultuurfonds in 2011 and is the biggest grant made available to individual fashion designers in The Netherlands.
Virtual Gallery
Visit our very own Digital Gallery of Honour! The Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium Virtual Gallery is specially developed, and newly updated, to highlight fashion designers who’ve received the Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium in the past 13 years.
Just click on the link below and walk around in the Virtual Gallery to experience digital fashion art of the best of Dutch fashion excellence.
And don’t forget to come back after Tuesday October 15th when work of the new recipient of the Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium Edition 13 will be added to the Virtual Gallery!
This Virtual Gallery has been conceived by STUDIO ULTRADELUXE in close cooperation with the Dutch Fashion Foundation and the featured designers.
RECENT Projects
Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium Edition 13
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.
Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium Edition 12
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.
‘The Art of Fashion’ Panel conversation
Dutch Fashion Foundation presents ‘The Art of Fashion’: A conversation about finding new tactile and digital ways of expression.
On Wednesday November 22nd at 16:00 previous recipients of the Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium Bas Kosters, Tessa de Boer and Joris Suk (MAISON the FAUX) will engage in a conversation about ‘The Art of Fashion’, and finding new tactile and digital ways of expression, with art director Fleur van Maarschalkerwaart (Studio Ultradeluxe) and Eva Olde Monnikhof (board member Dutch Fashion Foundation) at PAN Podium during art fair PAN Amsterdam.
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CULTUURFONDS MODE STIPENDIUM – Edition 11
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.
FASHION & I – 2021 ONE DAY ONLINE FASHION FESTIVAL
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.
ALL DFF PROJECTS
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!
Eyes on Fashion
10 YEARS CULTUURFONDS MODE STIPENDIUM
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?
20 YEARS DUTCH FASHION FOUNDATION
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.
EYES AND MINDS ON DUTCH FASHION
You can’t ponder the future, without considering the past. What has been happening in Dutch fashion for the past 25 years?
About DFF
ABOUT DFF
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.
ACTIVITIES SINCE 2000
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.
Blueprint
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.
COLOFON
Dutch Fashion Foundation GIF by @studioultradeluxe, fashion design and photography:
FRENKEN © Fleur Bult, Iris van Herpen © Gio Staiano for Iris van Herpen, Bas Kosters © Peter Stigter, Ronald van der Kemp © Marijke Aerden, Claes Iversen © Jouke Bos
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