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WAHALA Presents: ASCENSION is more than a fashion show — it’s a collision of sustainable fashion, performance, hip hop and community.

On 16 September 2026, WAHALA takes over The Dean Docklands as part of Dublin Independent Fashion Week for an uncompromising exploration of identity, masculinity, damage and transformation.

Strip the Mask. Kill the performance. Wear the damage.

Built from what’s left, the collection rejects perfection and embraces the raw, the repaired and the reclaimed. Scars become structure. Ruin becomes uniform. Nothing is hidden. Nothing is wasted.

Through fashion, music, movement and live performance, ASCENSION challenges the pressure to conform and asks what happens when the façade finally comes off.

This is fashion without the polish.

Performance without the pretence.

A celebration of breaking out, rising up and becoming something else.

More than a runway. A reckoning.