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.

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We congratulate Mohamed Benchellal, recipient of the Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium Edition 12!

Mohamed Benchellal receives the Mode Stipendium for his designs that combine sculptural beauty with technical ingenuity. And because, as the standard-bearer of Dutch contemporary fashion, he has put himself on the international couture map in just a decade, entirely on his own strength and with unflappable ambition.

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.

Virtual Gallery

Visit our very own Digital Gallery of Honour! The Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium Virtual Gallery is especially developed for this edition of the Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium to highlight the fashion designers who’ve received the Mode Stipendium in the past 12 years.

The Virtual Gallery is accessible for everybody, even those who don’t have any experience with digital fashion and the metaverse!

Just click on the link below, pick your avatar and wander around in the Virtual Gallery and experience the digital fashion art of the best of Dutch fashion excellence.

Now the work of Mohamed Benchellal, the recipient of the Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium can also be viewed in the Virtual Gallery.

RECENT Projects

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.

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‘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.

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Previous Projects

CULTUURFONDS MODE STIPENDIUM – Edition 9

Designer Erik Frenken is the recipient of the 9th edition of the Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium.

The Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium, initiated in 2011 by an anonymous benefactor and included in the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, consists of an amount of 50.000 euro and a passed on trophy. A festive celebration was held at the NewWerktheater in Amsterdam on April 3rd 2019.

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CULTUURFONDS MODE STIPENDIUM – Edition 8

Designer Bas Kosters is the recipient of the 8th edition of the Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium.

The Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium, initiated in 2011 by an anonymous benefactor and included in the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, consists of an amount of 50.000 euro and a passed on trophy. A festive celebration was held at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam on April 13th 2018.

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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!

View all the Dutch Fashion Foundation projects

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?

Learn more about all former Cultuurfonds Mode Stipendium recipients

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.

See the project GIFs and meet the students

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?

We invite you to take a LOOK

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.

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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.

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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.

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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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