The CREATION 2020/21 Designer Contest and Show was held on the 16th of October 2021 at the New York Palace Anantara Hotel in Budapest. At the event there were more than 130 guests, including politicians, press, representatives of the Hungarian designer universities and schools, designers, representatives of the fur sector, supporters and sponsors. The presented products were characterized by inventive fur-combinations and unique solutions. The jury was composed of professional participants, such as fur traders and owners of companies operating in fur and fashion sector. The winners received cash prizes and fur bundles.
The winners were as follows:
Category of fur coat, fur jacket:
1st place: Ms. Erika Hidegföldi
2nd place: Mr. Miklós and Mrs. Bea Szilágyi
3rd place: Ms. Lya Vath (Orsolya Horváth)
Category of fur accessories:
1st place: Mr. László Láng
2nd place: Ms. Mária Csányi
3rd place: Mr. Gyula Kocsis
Category of “Redesign it!”: Mrs. Rozália Szekszárdiné Kovács
Special prize of REMIX (for young designers only): Ms. Borbála Braunitzer
The 1st place winner of the fur coat category, Erika Hidegföldi writes about the winning product (a beautiful peacock patterned fur coat): “The jacket was inspired by the diversity of furs. The “eyes” of the peacock feather were made one by one, made of four types of fur: chinchilla, rabbit, castor rex rabbit, and fox fur. The base of the coat is sheared, dyed rabbit fur.”
Orsolya Horváth, known as Lya Vath in the Hungarian fashion sector, who is 3rd place winner in the fur coat category writes about her winning product (a reversible kimono): “The jacket shows the women’s cross-cultural diversity. Its shape is a graceful Japanese kimono, its material is also real Japanese kimono silk. The power of surprise is influenced by the fact that the jacket is reversible and we can take on the elegant style of a metropolitan woman in a combination of black and white cubes, After all, I designed this piece to be double-sided, thus reinforcing the feeling of diversity.”
The winner of REMIX, Borbála Braunitzer, writes about his costume called “Sea eagle”: “I was inspired by the sea eagle, a bird of prey, such an emblem with symbolic background. I repeated the pattern of the osprey’s plumage rhythmically on both the skirt and the “pleated foil-hand fans’. I tried to achieve a rich, rampant spectacle by stacking the transparent foils, strong skirt ruffles and their patterns. I stiffened the wing-beats of the bird by condensing it into a composition. The effect of the moving dress – the floating of fine hairs, the waving of the strips of foil pleat and the rolling of the ruffles – according to my plan – strengthens the “bird-like”. I composed the “face” of the bird in the center of the spectacle – also in the center of the body. The bright yellow eyes and slightly abstract “facial features” lend a mild mythical flavor to the outfit. I used moderate, natural colors to keep the colors in harmony with the patterns and shapes. The costume was made of Tibetan sheep, silver fox and sheared rabbit hair. ”
