The latest generation of fashion designers dazzled audiences at the three sold-out MOME Fashion Show 2025 events. As the opening highlight of the autumn semester, the show debuted more than one hundred looks on the catwalk at the Zugliget campus of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. This year’s showcase placed contemporary themes and personal narratives centre stage, offering audiences a glimpse into how young designers see fashion today. As part of the wider programme, internationally renowned fashion curator Linda Loppa visited Budapest, and visitors were treated to an exclusive week-long exhibition of diploma collections by MOME’s Fashion and Textile Design graduates. 

What place do folklore, climate protection, or isolation have on the runway? What does fashion and fashion design mean to Gen Z? How are the centres and peripheries of the fashion industry shifting in the 21st century? These are just some of the questions explored at this year’s MOME Fashion Show through collections reflecting the latest design thinking and a series of special accompanying events.

How can fashion be both sustainable, respectful of traditions, and deeply personal? This is the question explored in the What Will We Wear in the Future? exhibition which opened in April at the National Carpet Museum in Baku as part of the Central European Cultural Platform (PCCE) collaboration. The exhibition features works by design and art university students from four Central European countries (Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Hungary), including ten students from the MOME Fashion and Textile Design MA programme.

The MOME Fashion Show is back on 4 September, bringing the latest generation of textile and fashion design talents into the spotlight. The show invites both industry professionals and fashion enthusiasts to discover the latest creations by the next generation of designers on the Zugligeti Road Campus runway. Showcasing over one hundred looks, this year’s event presents more works than ever before, exploring the intersection of contemporary art and design. These autonomous visions use fashion as a medium to respond to current issues and tell deeply personal stories.

Organised as part of the MOME Fashion Show, the exhibition showcases diploma projects from the university’s Fashion and Textile Design students, curated by MOME alumna and costume designer, assistant lecturer Csenge Vass.

What could it be like to push boundaries and still end up inside a glass box? What kind of questions are shaping the minds of today’s designers? Where do personal identity, cultural heritage, and digital life intersect? Where does a garment end, and where does the story behind it begin?

In addition to performing assignments from the Garment Accessory Design Specialisation of the Textile Design Programme, leather craft, as well as shoe and hat-making technologies are also taught. It is a modelling workshop with state-of-the-art equipment that also interacts with other workshops (Modelling, Metal, 3D Printer, Laser Cutting). In addition to raw materials made of natural leather, this workshop also deals with textiles, films, and other alternative materials.

Students of the Textil Department can make garments of design task in the Fashion workshop. In the Fashion workshop students can learn different skills, pattern development (flat pattern making, draping and CAD/CAM), tailoring, sewing, ironing, fusing technology.

The Knitting Workshop at TechPark allows students to learn the fundamentals of machine knitting on 7 double needle-bed manual flat-knitting machines, 9 single needle-bed manual flat-knitting machines (Silver Reed LK150) and 8 electronically-controlled double needle-bed flat-knitting machines (Silver Reed SK 840) of different types and levels of subtlety. Three band-knitting machines and a string knitting machine are also available. Certain threads can be made suitable for knitting with the 2x4 head cross winding machine in the workshop. The sheets produced on the flat knitting machines can be made into cardigans and other knitted garments with the help of a hem stitch sewing machine and a chain stich sewing machine.