Fashion Without Capitalism - Articles Of Interest
To save space for images, I’m not going to add a lot of words here. Just know that almost everything you’re about to see took place behind the iron curtain. In the 1980s, Budapest was not quite socialist and not quite capitalist, and there was one fashion designer who thrived in this moment.
This is the story of Tamás Király, an unusual artist from an unusual period of Hungarian history, both of which were unusually short-lived.
Because Király was murdered in 2013.
This is the famous hat that is a perfect replica of the Hungarian Parliament.
Was the hat making a political statement? Or was it a joke? Or was it just a cool hat? No one really knew. Although the police certainly tried to figure it out.
Király made his international debut in 1988, at the Dressater show in West Berlin, at the then-abandoned Hamburger Bahnhof.
The sources for this story, and for all these images, are the following two publications:
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Hungary has great local fashion today- as artist and designers continue to do their own thing. My favorites are THEFOUR, Daige, Vengru (makes geometric bags that stand beautifully on their own, or you can clip them to custom canvas totes when you need more space. Smart idea!) and I adore the corduroy getups of Donna Terra (and her hemp tulip top)
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