The Budapest European fashion week, full of fashion shows, events and conferences took place in the wonderful city of Budapest for the Spring Summer 2020 edition on November 4th-10th. In the calendar there were many Hungarian designers already protagonists of the Hungarian Fashion and Design Agency program in collaboration with the National Chamber of Italian Fashion, a mentoring program project promoted by CNMI that is successfully growing. The partnership involves six designers such as Abodi, Artist, Cukovy, Elysian, Zsigmond Dora and Je Suis Belle. Last season, these brands were part of the Milan fashion week, receiving considerable positive feedback from the press and from the buyers.
The fashion shows took place in the heart of the city, conveying that magical flavor and a mix of cultural and aesthetic suggestions, a crossroad between East and West.
The locations were the Bálna Budapest, a large interactive space with exhibitions and meeting points for young people and the local public and the Tesla Event Kult an old industrial building. On the first day of the calendar, Tesla hosted Sofia Rousinovich’s Ukrainian guest Roussin, demonstrating her creativity with a streetwear collection of oversized coats and sweatshirts, interesting because her collection was hand-decorated with writings and sprays and using reflective materials.
Also in the Tesla building, the Italian guest this year was the designer Gilberto Calzolari who demonstrated his talent for his style with sustainable fabrics such as ecological cork garments with tropical prints, frilled flounced skirts and many saharian shirts. Another green collection was the one of Patrick Mc Dowell who distinguished himself for the “spectacular” show with a few unisex but effective garments such as suits, overalls with exaggerated cuts and ethical fabrics.
The young emerging students of the Young Talents Show took part in the first evening of fashion shows, including Nóra Larcher of the Art and Design University of Cluj-Napoca that introduced interesting duvet outfits, Borbála Ferencz from Mome in Budapest, and the multicolored graffiti of Ilonca Bianca.
Among the most famous Hungarian designers there were the names of Nanushka, Cukovy, Abodi, Virag Kerenyi.
Szandra Sándar’s Nanushka is certainly among the most famous designers, her collection presents garments with simple cuts , earthy colors with few touches of green and black, two pieces with short pants and long jackets, and a sustainable material, the vegan leather, very soft to the touch.
Kata Szegedi is an emerging collection that shows her talent as an artist (she comes from the Krea Contemporary Art Institute) The designer in collaboration with Daniel Benus presented many jackets, long size in organza, bright metallic colors shirts such as green and silver. Among the brands supported by the fashion chamber, Cukovy is the one belonging to the world of activewear. The designer Dora Zsigmond has proposed interesting duvets with ethnic cuts in bright colors like yellow and cycling pants with detachable parts
The last day of the calendar Katalin Artist Imre, Nóra Rácz and Katalin Stampf, were showing their Hungarian brand Artista. The result is an elegant and minimal feminine image with floral and portraits themes with block colors.
Boglárka Bódis, the Elysian designer, proposed cocktail looks and many pleats into the rhythm of a magical music (www.bcefw.com)
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