Personal stories, contemporary themes on the runway – MOME Fashion Show 2025

Date: 2025.07.31

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.

Contemporary perspectives, individual worlds

Taking place on 4 September, the MOME Fashion Show will be one of the major opening events of the autumn semester on the MOME Campus. Showcasing over one hundred looks, this year’s edition presents more works than ever, exploring the intersections of art and design, with contemporary themes and personal stories taking centre stage.

BA and MA collections will follow one another in succession on the runway. Alongside sustainability, this year’s BA projects place a strong focus on individuality, examining the concept of the ‘island’, and how it can be interpreted by fashion. The answer unfolds under the curatorial vision of Head of the MA programme Ildikó Kele and design educator Dóri Tomcsányi, both highly regarded fashion professionals who have successfully built their own brands over the years. Developed under the guidance of Head of the BA programme Annamária Simándi-Kövér and teachers of the programme, the BA works reflect on the island as a metaphor for isolation, freedom, autonomy, and inner refuge, with each student creating a distinctive design world shaped by these themes.

Personal stories, generational issues

This duality defines the conceptual framework of the show: the island as a self-contained universe, where designers build their visual language and professional identity while still enjoying the protection of an academic setting. The MA diploma projects highlight the formation of designer identities and professional perspectives, interweaving themes of tradition, personal narratives, generational concerns, hyper-personalisation, and contemporary visual culture.

Linda Loppa in Budapest

As part of the MOME Fashion show, fashion curator and consultant Linda Loppa, global fashion education icon and honorary doctorate of the University of the Arts London, will be in Budapest to deliver a lecture and join a roundtable with leading voices from the local and regional fashion scene. The English-language symposium, Worlds of Fashion: From the Periphery to the Centre, explores how the centres and peripheries of the fashion industry are being reshaped in the 21st century, how its geographic axes are shifting, and who is redrawing the global fashion map.

Exhibition of diploma works

Completing the MOME Fashion Show programme, an exhibition curated by assistant lecturer and costume designer Csenge Vass, a MOME alumna, presents a selection of diploma works by MOME students. Open to the public from 2–7 September, it offers further insight into the creative visions shaping the future of design.

Tickets and information

The MOME Fashion Show will once again be held in an iconic setting, the university’s Zugligeti Road campus, with limited seating. Public ticket sales open on Monday, 4 August at 10:00 a.m., with early bird tickets available for HUF 5800 and standard tickets for HUF 6500.

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