THE DESIGNER
Judit Bárány is a newly graduated designer, whose work focuses on menswear fashion. The craft and the experience of making is a fundamental impression on her process of designing clothes. Knitted products play a dominant role in her work, but other manual textile technologies also appear. At the heart of the design process is the method of making, the interplay between manual and digital technologies. It is important that the material also represents the message with which the collection is made. Time is a tool that gives us space to think and reflect. She believes that we live in an age when society needs as much as possible, so the processes that allow us to stop and think, are really important. Her aim is to give clothes a valuable and meaningful purpose through design.
THE COLLECTION
In her collection titled "Traditional Reconstruction," she seeks to find solutions on how today’s fashion can learn from traditional garments and mindsets. Her inspiration does not rely on the appropriation of cultural elements or the transposition of specific regional characteristics. She explores elements of folk costumes whose visual world and technological solutions can also be valid in a contemporary expression.
She creates a play between tailoring and waste processing. Her goal is for the leftover textile scraps to play a role in the execution process, thereby allowing the pieces of the collection to communicate with each other both visually and essentially. Her long-term goal is to develop a unique, well-structured system for a truly sustainable and novel fashion phenomenon. She believes that studying those earlier worlds where a production-centric mindset did not prevail is an essential condition for this.