Video — Giovanni Salice

Gerrit Rietveld Academie Fashion Show 2026

Sponsored by: Keep an Eye Foundation, Meester Koetsier Foundation, Stichting Van Stigt-ing and De Hallen Studio's

Film by Giovanni Salice

Graduates: Mikołaj Szwaja, Joris Janssen, Estefanía Escalona Millano, Evelina Nanny Eliasson, Simone Winder, Johanne Fage-Larsen and Feliz Aaliyah Sánchez Buitrago.

Head fashion department: Elisa van Joolen
Artistic Facilitator: Philipp Schueller
Choreographer: Astrit Ismaili
Coordinator Fashion department: Angeliki Tzortzakaki
Sewing workshop specialists: Sonja Kip, Dorrith de Roode, Mathild Clerc-Verhoeven
Textile workshop specialists: Nicky den Breejen, Ea Polman, Berber Soepboer, Sanne Bax, Marie Willfort
Make-up Styling: Mascha Meyer, Jody Cuberli – House of Orange
Hair styling: Sophie Wortelboer - House of Orange
Head of Production: Isobel Dryburgh
Assistant Head of Production: Michael Scerbo
Backstage management: Karlijn van Eersel

Assistant backstage manager: Ira Brand
Front stage & Cueing coordinator: Sophie Paloma Thomas
Front stage & Cueing support: Meike Bouman
Technical Production: Jethro Cooke i.c.w. De Hallen Studios
Technical production and guidance: Jacob Dwyer
Graphic Design: Matija Stojanovic, Miro Jakob, Juliette Collins, Loren Xu with guidance by Jan Tomson
Introduction Text & Artist Statements guidance: Angeliki Tzortzakaki
PR & Communication: Jan Schoon & Martijn den Boer i.c.w. Eline van Workum (Public Rietveld)
Rietveld Fashion Instagram: Michelangelo Arena

Audio for video produced by Tristen"DJ1300"Esajas & DARRE

----- Either nothing has meaning or everything has meaning. If nothing has meaning and anything could be anything what’s the point in trying to establish truth? If there is no truth, I’m the only thing that matters ! -----------> (?)I’m wondering about how the next important person in my life is going to look like. Anyway, the farthest distance in the world is between how it is and how we thought it was going to be. SOMEBODY JUST POINTED A GUN AT ME ON WEBCAM. I’m defenceless and you are taking advantage of it. Trying to change the world is too complicated. But you can still ask yourself... Do I want to be somebody else? What was being said in what was said? Does the fridge light turns off when you close the door? Of those two ways of living - living in the moment and living outside it - which one is the more real? And remember to kiss yourself (not with the tongue though)... In a future flooded with algorithms, a hand drawn sketch or a timeless silhouette becomes rebellious. If the world ends, beauty survives and it looks like baroque design lit by LED Light. ----------