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Budapest Design Week and 360 Design Budapest Attracted an Outstanding Number of Visitors
Budapest Design Week is the most comprehensive creative industry event series featuring the largest number of programmes and extending beyond the capital, serving as the annual showcase for the Hungarian design profession. This year, more than 20,000 people visited the nearly 130 design programmes held in Budapest, Pécs, and
The 13th Budapest Central European Fashion Week Concluded With a Record Number of Visitors
The Hungarian Fashion & Design Agency (HFDA) organised the Budapest Central European Fashion Week (BCEFW) for the thirteenth time, between the 22nd and the 28th of January. 29 brands, including ten regional designers, unveiled their newest collections at the region’s main fashion event. There was a greater interest in the
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The chair as a bridge between person and space: Hevesi Annabella and the Peach seating furniture
Is it still possible to be innovative with a classic piece of furniture like an armchair? We asked Annabella Hevesi, co-founder of Line and Round and creator of the Peach Easy Chair, about the technological innovations that this piece of furniture has to offer. The chair, which has an appealingly
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Comfort and design tailored for babies | Máté Horváth and the Shape furniture collection
What does it take to create a stylish, functional, and sustainable furniture range? Designer Máté Horváth of Forms Design lets us look behind the scenes.
True success stories in furniture manufacturing can only be created with the perfect team—a creative designer working with a professional manufacturer. This is exactly
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From the runways to the streets #2 | Telling stories with our clothes
Is it the concept or the awareness-raising and memorability that is more important? Where is the line between artistic expression and provocation? What impact does social media have on what will eventually hit the shelves? Having clarified the essential concepts in the first episode of our new series, in the
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A family of lamps in the trinity of naturalness, tradition, and innovation: meet Kilim!
A product family in the spirit of slow design, where the materials are not adapted to the form, but it creates the form. The uniqueness of the lamp family Kilim is that its character is given by the properties of natural wool felt, and the light intensity can be controlled
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Hungarian designers presented their work in Milan to over 100,000 spectators
Milan Design Week, one of Europe’s most important design events, took place last week, where Hungarian designers and craftsmen were also represented.
Milan Design Week, the world’s largest annual design event, has come to an end, with Hungarian designers and craftspeople have showcased their work between 17-23 April.
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Hungarian design LAB incubation program returns for the third time
In spring 2022, the Hungarian Fashion & Design Agency launched its design LAB incubation program, in which manufacturers and designers were supported to develop a new product.
The primary goal of the design LAB incubation program is to promote the creation of collaborations between players in the creative sector, manufacturers and
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The 11th Budapest Central European Fashion Week kicked off with a new concept
This time, Hungarian and regional designers showcased their new season collections not at the usual catwalk shows, but at presentations.
From 2-6 February, it was all about fashion again in Budapest thanks to the Budapest Central European Fashion Week. The main event of the renewed BCEFW, the designer presentations, took
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10th Budapest Central European Fashion Week powered by Ukrainian brands
This year, the fashion week featuring the spring-summer collections of 2023 was held once again in the impressive building of the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, where more than thirty brands presented their collections designed for the next season. This time the Hungarian brands shared the spotlight with their
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Outdoor furniture from banana leaves: meet CoTangens!
Outdoor furniture with a strong character and infinite variability that can create a setting for valuable human encounters. One of the main features of CoTangens is that its components can be recycled and the upholstery is made from a special material. This unique furniture range has been born from the
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Budapest Central European Fashion Week opens up to the international scene
More than 30 Hungarian and regional designers presented their collections at this year’s Budapest Central European Fashion Week, preceding the four international fashion weeks. Preponed for strategic reasons, the event was attended by wholesalers, Hungarian and international journalists who had the chance to discover the 2022/23 autumn-winter collections
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Hungarian designers present their latest collections at Budapest Central European Fashion Week
The Hungarian Fashion & Design Agency is organizing the Budapest Central European Fashion Week ahead of the international fashion weeks, between 31 January and 6 February.
During this year’s BCEFW Pre-Fall Collection, the Agency will showcase a limited selection of the latest collections of more than 30 Hungarian and regional
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Nearly 80 fashion and design brands were unveiled during the Fashion & Design Autumn
Fashion shows, home furnishing exhibitions, roundtable discussions, digital conferences and many more varied programs made last fall even more exciting. The Fashion & Design Autumn thematic event series, first implemented in 2021, featured nearly eighty unique fashion and design brands at two international and then three domestic events. The creators were
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Society sees fashion as superfluous and superficial | Interview with Olo Krizova
In the multifaceted life of Olo Krizova, one thing is sure, and that’s fashion. With the establishment of the Czech Fashion Council, we can look at the Czech fashion industry from a new perspective—opening up a dialogue between creative industries while promoting and bringing together the country’s
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Most brands would be sustainable if they closed down | Clare Farrell interview
Clare Farrell, fashion designer, environmental activist, founder of the Extinction Rebellion movement and the Sustainable Fashion course at the University of the Arts London, is not new to the green trends that have been taking off in the fashion industry. She has been actively involved in the issue for more
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Virtual showroom in the metaverse | Budapest Fashion & Tech Summit
The Hungarian Fashion & Design Agency organizes the Budapest Fashion & Tech Summit fashion industry conference featuring international experts for the fourth time. The 2021 event will approach and showcase the fashion industry’s future from the perspectives of sustainability, knowledge sharing, cultural heritage, e-commerce and changing consumer habits. This year, the
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The Budapest Fashion & Tech Summit kicks off next week
The Budapest Fashion & Tech Summit arrives with Central Europe’s first virtual showroom created in the Metaverse and NFT sales, plus a world-renowned fashion icon will also pay a tribute at the event. The program will take place from 1-2 December.
Emphasizing the importance of innovation, sustainability and knowledge sharing,
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Hungarian talent attracted great interest in Dubai
The Hungarian Fashion & Design Agency drew attention to the talents of the Hungarian creative industry in Dubai with a Creative Week and the Hungarian Pavilion realized by Expo 2020 Hungary. At the Budapest Select Fashion Show, seven Hungarian designers presented their collections and, thanks to the great success, received concrete
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Hungarian designers are invited to apply for the 2022 Maison&Objet trade fair
In January 2022, the Hungarian Fashion and Design Agency will again offer selected Hungarian designers the opportunity to present themselves at the Maison&Objet trade fair at the unified Budapest Select stand.
It is a great professional opportunity for Hungarian designers to participate in one of the world’s biggest
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Europe's fifth Material Library opens in Budapest
The Hungarian Fashion & Design Agency and the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design opened Europe’s fifth material library, the first of its kind in the region. The gap-filling Budapest Design Material Library will bring together the latest and most innovative material samples from around the world and make them
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Hungarian designers showcase at Milan Fashion Week
The Hungarian Fashion & Design Agency acts as a coordinating center for the exchange of information and knowledge between different actors, as well as for the exploration and realization of cooperation opportunities. The importance of this function is clearly demonstrated by the presence of Hungarian fashion brands in Milan this year.
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Hungarian success at one of Europe's most prestigious design fairs
Excellent results were achieved at Maison&Objet, the Paris design fair held from 9-13 September, where ten Hungarian designers presented their work. Sára Kele’s furniture family made it to the top of the French Marie Claire’s list.
One of the main strategic objectives of the Hungarian Fashion & Design
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Hungarian Pavilion staff will represent the country in these uniforms at the Dubai World Expo
The staff of the Hungarian Pavilion at the Dubai World Expo will be wearing THEFOUR and Elysian uniforms. The winning outfits of the uniform competition were presented to the press on Thursday.
In 2019, Expo 2020 Hungary Nkft. announced a competition to design the uniforms of the staff representing the
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360 Design Budapest brings home international awards
The design exhibition of the Hungarian Fashion & Design Agency, which awaits its visitors both physically and online, won no less than four medals in prestigious international competitions this summer.
The “figital” exhibition, which opened last autumn, featured the work of twenty Hungarian and four international contemporary design brands, through one
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The complete renewal of the Hungarian fashion industry planned for 2030
The strategic work material of the Hungarian Fashion & Design Agency (MDDÜ) aimed at the comprehensive renewal of the Hungarian fashion and design industry was adopted. In the summer of 2021, the plan became an official Fashion Industry Strategy, with the primary goal of strengthening the industry’s international competitiveness.
The
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Hungary's first design LAB program debuts its production-ready items
The first design LAB incubation program launched by the Hungarian Fashion & Design Agency (HFDA) in the spring of 2020 has ended: after a six-month manufacturing process, more than forty production-ready items were born.
There was also a lot of interest in the competition itself and the Speed Dating networking event
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Budapest sees a digital fashion week again
During the four-day online event called the Budapest Central European Fashion Week, the Hungarian Fashion & Design Agency will showcase the works of twenty-six Hungarian and eleven regional designers with pre-recorded runway videos from March 25 to 28.
After last fall’s event, a digital fashion week will be held again
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Design SPEED program mentees are ready to conquer the international market
The Hungarian Fashion & Design Agency collaborated with the Italian Istituto Europeo di Design to organize the design SPEED mentor program for the second time, which aims to proactively help locally already established design brands move onto the international market. This time, five Hungarian brands participated in the program: Error N
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Application is open for the third design START mentoring program
The Hungarian Fashion and Design Agency (HFDA) has opened applications for its mentoring program, which helps to stabilize the position of design businesses with two already existing product lines.
The companies participating in the previous program told of prestigious awards, foreign magazine features, and outstanding recognitions in connection with their
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Seven new product development projects funded by the first design LAB incubation program
The first phase of the design LAB incubation program of the Hungarian Fashion and Design Agency aimed at strategic development of manufacturing has ended: the Evaluation Committee has selected the designer-manufacturer duos that will receive funding from the program. The seven applicants considered best by the Committee can use the
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International perspectives for second design SPEED mentees
The Hungarian Fashion and Design Agency and the Italian Istituto Europeo di Design launched their second design SPEED program. This time the five Hungarian designers participating in the program can acquire the most important methods and techniques of brand development with the guidance of Italian and American mentors as well
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Anna Dello Russo to open Budapest Fashion & Tech Summit
The Hungarian Fashion and Design Agency organizes Budapest Fashion & Tech Summit, the prestigious fashion technology event of the region for the third time. In light of the epidemic, this year’s event will be held online, between November 30 and December 1.
In the framework of the conference, internationally acknowledged
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30 years of Hungarian fashion published in a book
Those interested can now explore the past thirty years of Hungarian fashion in an exclusive publication. Titled Színfalak mögött – A magyar divat (Behind the scenes – Hungarian Fashion), the book was edited by Bence Csalár, and the cherry on top is brought by Enikő Mihalik as the ambassador of the publication.
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Helping the startuppers of the future | HFDA Startup Program
The HFDA Startup Program will welcome ideas revolutionizing the fashion and design industry this fall once again, offering a business development course and an investment option of HUF 15 million to the most promising startups. The aim of the program is to provide support to the forward-thinking sectoral solutions that
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Budapest Central European Fashion Week returns in an unexpected, new form
Hungarian brands will be able to present their 2020 Fall/Winter collections
between September 10 and 13 in front of a small Hungarian audience in Deák
Palace, in the framework of a special “trunk show” organized by the Hungarian
Fashion and Design Agency. The pieces shown will be on sale
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Negotiating for a competitive fashion and design industry
The Hungarian Fashion and Design Agency (HFDA) initiated a policy discussion
with the Ministry for Innovation and Technology for the development of the
sector: they wish to promote the renewal of small and medium businesses in the
fashion and design industry by supporting technological developments. Their goal
is to strengthen
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“The future of the sector is written in the present”
The HFDA Spot online platform debuting in June 2020 was called to life by a
survey conducted last year aimed at assessing the needs of the companies
operating in the Hungarian fashion and design industry, facilitating the online
meeting of clients and manufacturers by serving as a bridge between them,
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HFDA Spot | Building an online business community
One of the key strategic pillars of the Hungarian Fashion and Design Agency is
production development, intended to promote collaborations between manufacturers
and designers. The digital platform called HFDA Spot launched by the HFDA plays
an important role in implementing this, by encouraging the collaborations
between manufacturers and designers via
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HFDA | The second design START started digitally
In light of the epidemic, the second design START mentor program of the
Hungarian Fashion and Design Agency started with an online series of lectures,
helping Hungarian design businesses lay down the foundations for their domestic
stability with business fundamentals. The five design brands selected by the
professional jury – Edina
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design LAB | The online meetings start soon
The Hungarian Fashion and Design Agency launches incubation program design LAB
to promote fruitful collaborations between manufacturers and designers, who can
apply for the program with a joint project. To facilitate the establishment of
successful collaborations, the Agency organizes a virtual “Speed Dating” event,
in the framework of which the
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design LAB | Connecting manufacturers and designers
The Hungarian Fashion and Design Agency established an incubation program under
the name design LAB to promote collaboration between Hungarian manufacturers and
creative experts of the design industry, while also aiming to alleviate the
consequences of the economic situation caused by the pandemic in addition to the
strategic objective of
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HYPE | Weekly program guide
In the first week of February, Hungarian designers and their works will be
featured on many platforms: there will be a roundtable discussion about the
relationship between designers and manufacturers; a talk about the key to
international success for young designer-artists, and end-of-the-winter fairs
will also await you during the
