Yesterday, Glamcult joined the opening of: Available to Promise, the 2026 edition of State of Fashion. Set against the towering backdrop of Arnhem’s Eusebius Church, the daytime opening unfolded with a live performance by HUMAN TOUCH, a project that showcases garments layered with black smudges, wear marks, and imprints, serving as a tangible, visual representation of the physical toll of making fast-fashion.
Then curators Anne Zhou, Anouchka van Driel, and Shanu Walpita introduced the Biennale’s conceptual framework in person. Structured around five interconnected pillars — Develop, Distribute, Hype, Experience, and Transform — Available to Promise shifts the focus away from fashion as pure image and toward the invisible systems: supply chains, data flows, infrastructures, labour, rituals, and the architectures behind what eventually lands on our bodies.
Those same themes carried into a panel discussion hosted by Shanu Walpita, featuring contributions from Glamcult founder Rogier Vlaming, Eloise van Oranje, CAULFIELD–SRIKLAD and He Jing, unpacking how fashion continues to operate as both fantasy machine and a logistical network simultaneously. The afternoon continued with a guided tour through the Biennale, where installations, garments, films, and speculative worlds collided inside the cathedral walls, tracing the hidden mechanics behind contemporary fashion.
And of course, no fashion biennale exists without the people orbiting it. These are the faces that joined the opening.
Photography by Renée Benerink
