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.

How can traditional folk art, its associated ancient craft techniques, and materials be reimagined through the lens of contemporary design? This is the central question explored by the Future Traditions programme, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year and has become a defining component of the Fashion and Textile Design MA programme at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME). In 2024, the programme took place as part of the Hungarian-Turkish Cultural Season, with MOME students collaborating for a semester with Istanbul's Marmara University. The results of this collaboration will be showcased in an exhibition at the Hungarian Cultural Centre in Istanbul.

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.

A MOME Fashion Show alkalmával nyíló kiállítás a MOME Divat és textiltervezés szak diplomamunkáiból válogat, kurátora a MOME-alumna, jelmeztervező Vass Csenge tanársegéd.

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.