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Modern Etnika

The Modern Etnika Creative Group was founded in 1991 by fashion designer Éva Mészaros. The group transferred the traditions of the folk art of the Carpathian Basin to the designer fashion of the 1990s with high quality, both in terms of fabric selection, tailoring patterns and decoration. It was proven at Hungarian and international exhibitions for years that traditions had created a new aesthetic quality in clothing, thanks to the inventive creators of a certain taste.

The 'Rethink/re-button! Magyar is the Mode'

Csárdás and beach shawls

Lea Gottlieb (1918, Sajószentpéter, 1918 – 2012, Tel Aviv, 2012) was born as Lea Lenke Róth. She wanted to study chemistry, but because of the laws applying to Jews, she wasn’t allowed to. She met her husband, Ármin Gottlieb, shortly before World War II, when she worked as an accountant in the Gottlieb family's raincoat factory. After Germany occupied Hungary, her husband was deported to a forced labour camp, and she and her daughters were first hiding from the Nazis in Sajószentpéter, then in Budapest.

Jacqueline Almásy

The "leading lady" (1895-1952)

And her friend Elsa Schiaparelli (1890–1973)

Jaqueline Erzsébet Mária, Countess Almásy de Zsadány et Törökszentmiklós, attracted the attention of the higher circles not only with her beauty and love for fashion but also with her second wedding that took place in Budapest 10 January: her husband was none other than Louis J. Cartier, the famous French jeweller and watchmaker.

The Home Industry cooperatives and the clothes produced there

In the 1950s, socialist cultural policy actively counted on the "creative collaborators" and "natural talents" who represented the continuation of the folk art and decorative folk art tradition. Their design work fundamentally determined the style of the products made by Home Industry cooperatives.

Flower Power and the hippie movement

The hippie movement began in the United States in the early 1960s as a protest against the existing social structure and America's war activities. Initially, free-spirited youth moving to the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco were referred to as hippies – the term originally comes from the English word hipster.

The patterns of the shepherd's cloak designed by Mariska Kárász

Designing clothes was a passion of the Hungarian-born American fashion designer, writer and textile artist Mariska Kárász (Budapest, 1898-Danbury, USA, 1960). She made colourful garments with varied patterns, which were primarily inspired by Hungarian folk art. She left Hungary in 1914, but her interest in fashion and talent attracted her to New York, not Paris. She learned to sew and embroider by herself. She visited Hungary several times after that: in 1925, 1926 and 1930.