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Dutch designer Tim Christiani debuted his first fashion show under his namesake label on October 24, 2025. The location: The Posthoornkerk, located in Amsterdam city center. The designer presented his second collection.

Tim Christiani’s debut show, “Nor dread nor hope,” challenged the codes of fashion. The show featured feminine cuts while also critiquing ideas of femininity. 

The first look, for example, showed shorts cut just above the knee and a white blouse with feathers on the collar. The show followed with other looks that were femme, yet slightly distorted. 

The red thread of Christiani’s debut is vulnerability. The looks showed that we are all just well-dressed humans of skin and blood, and that even gender is a performance (as argued by Judith Butler in Gender Trouble). 

Christiani also challenged the human desire for symmetry with asymmetrical trousers and blazers that were extremely easy on the eyes. The layeredness and fragility of human life are evident in wearable, see-through items such as blazers, blouses, and gloves.

But the absolute highlight of the show was the performance element. The last model wore a transparent latex dress, walked up in a glass box, and turned around her own axis.

The debut show of Tim Christiani invites us to look in the mirror and truly accept who we are: domesticated, bare, imperfect humans dressing up. There is comfort in accepting this humanity. We might not have the same wardrobes, but our faith – the inevitability of decay – remains the same.