Maison Avant Après - the latest collection fashion forward literature & annual Perdu Party

Maison Avant Après is a new project that opens up a space for literature on fashion. This evening, Maison Avant Après presents its debut collection Haute Écriture. This also marks Perdu’s season finale and continues into the early hours.

On 26 June Maison Avant Après presents their first collection Haute Écriture. The écrituriers of service turn their fascination for fashion into strange and dazzling pieces full of paradoxes. The practitioner of haute écriture spends years gathering enough impressions and spends hundreds of hours on the tiniest details. The pieces on show are made using complex techniques and paradoxical feelings. We see how fashion dictates strict laws and conceals oppression, but also offers possibilities to escape corsets and straightjackets.

During the presentation, the Maison proudly shows the result of this labour, hoping to form an artistic avant-garde together with the audience rather than a flock of passive fashion victims. There is no doubt that fashion has the power to mobilise the masses, but can the continuous metamorphosis on the catwalk bring about real, substantial change?

Afterwards, the show continues on the dance floor for the festive closure of Perdu’s cultural season with music, drinks, and aesthetic excess into the night.

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A programme by Perdu x Maison Avant Après

Host: Oliver Taylor


Language: EN/NL (during the Dutch parts, English translations are shown)

Dress code: Overdressed

Dewi de Nijs Bik relates to the Radical Call for Love collection of fashion designer Marine Serre, who took the fashion world by storm a decade ago in the aftermath of the attacks in Paris and Brussels. What remains of this mobilizing energy in 2026? And how do these remnants inscribe themselves into history? This new poetry work will be presented by literary top model Marieke Ornelis, herself a writer and dramaturge.

Tim Fraanje provides a fashion commentary to Alessandro Michele’s debut-couture show Valentino Vertigineux (2025), of which a rich selection of video fragments is shown. What can this exorbitant parade teach us about abundance and excess? Luuk Dolfijn joins on the drums.

Romy Day Winkel en Hanka van der Voet honour Amsterdam’s 19th-century seamstresses who formed the first all-female union of the Netherlands, De Naaistersbond. They perform a reading of poems, short stories and call-outs from the union’s newspaper De Naaistersbode, to highlight the radicality of the seamstresses.

rahman QUL presents his new poetry, turning metropolitan Paris – global fashion capital – into an echo chamber for post-Soviet experiences and the stories of marginalized communities that have ended up in Limburg. He shows how people with limited means use fashion to shape their desire for a luxurious, post-capitalist world.

Rainer Diana Hamilton and Violet Spurlock are the writers of the text What does it mean to be well-dressed? in which they explore the idea of fashion as a collective dialogue. In their absence, the audience will perform this polyphonic conversation.

Party line-up:

Tim Fraanje and Luuk Dolfijn go on stage for a second time as music duo Big Hare. They give a demonstration of Solarcore, a danceable method to manifest a magnificent, solar powered future. The performance includes a display of futuristic solarcore costumes made by designer Jonathan Ho.

Tonight Dj V von Willendorf, dj alterego of poet Anne Marijn Voorhorst, crosses as many musical regions and genres as possible – from van baile funk, kuduro and latin core to grime, dancehall, acid house and contemporary trance.