How does a girl in love with the material arts become the leading Hungarian fashion designer? The museum?s exhibition aims to answer this question by following the work of Éva Mészáros, from her early designs made at college to her folk-like works created during this decade. Mészáros belongs to that generation of fashion designers who elevated Hungarian clothing design to the level of art.
The exhibition features drawings, watercolours, graphic works, paintings and textile pictures of 50 outfits designed during the past 50 years. The exhibition?s organisers note that fashion drawings reached the height of their popularity in the 50s and 60s. Still in the tradition of Hungarian fashion magazines of the 30s, the drawings were of entire outfits, rather than single pieces of clothing. Not all of the drawings materialised as clothing, although most of them did.
The Budapest History Museum is located at Szt. György tér 2, in the Budavár Palace?s ?E? building.
Source: Múlt-kor / Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
