THE DESIGNER
Brigitta Szekernyés is a Hungarian designer who graduated from the Sustainable Fashion and Business program at the Copenhagen School of Design & Technology in 2018. In 2022, she launched solær, a project dedicated to one-of-a-kind crochet and knitwear. In 2025, she earned her master’s degree in Fashion and Textiles from The Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen, where she deepened her commitment to sustainability, innovation, and craftsmanship. Her work focuses on slow fashion, yarn experimentation, and upcycling, exploring the value of time and memory embedded in clothing. Her designs have been featured in various online and print media and showcased at Milan, Copenhagen, and Budapest Fashion Week.
THE BRAND
solær’s one-of a-kind knitted and crochet pieces are based on the principles of longevity and circularity; focusing on yarn experimentation and upcycling to explore the value of time and memory embedded in clothing. While prioritizing natural, second hand materials to create newness, the pieces are to celebrate the handmade and the imperfect in today’s accelerated consumer society. Inspired by the beauty of imperfection, solær aims to challenge the mass-produced and homogeneous market by supporting free self-expression, playfulness and individuality - while connecting the well-known and familiar, with the unexpected.
THE COLLECTION
Hungarian designer Brigitta Szekernyés presents her collection “Where the Sun Rises Twice” at Budapest Central European Fashion Week AW2627, following its recent debut at Copenhagen Fashion Week. Developed as her Master’s collection at The Royal Danish Academy, the project embodies her dedication to sustainability, craftsmanship, and emotionally embedded design.
The collection merges Nordic sensibility with her Central European heritage, reflecting her belief that clothing can hold time, care, and memory. Inspired by her childhood summers in Torockó, Transylvania, “Where the Sun Rises Twice” transforms garments into wearable time capsules. The collection interweaves Hungarian folklore, myth, and family stories with sustainable craft practices. Through crochet, zero-waste digital knit, and upcycled textiles, each piece preserves fragments of place, play, and intimacy, while challenging fashion’s disposability.
Each look encapsulates a distinct fragment of that time; cloud gazing, flower picking with her grandmother, playful dress-up, crafting from nature, and the softness of home. Anchored in Hungarian folklore, the collection embraces duality: joy and fear, light and shadow, presence and loss - reflecting both the shifting nature of memory and her family’s layered heritage as part of the Hungarian minority in Romania.
The collection is anchored in a universal longing; to return to a place that exists only in memory, and to hold onto what might otherwise fade. Its title references a natural phenomenon in Torockó, where the sun briefly disappears behind the mountain only to rise again soon after - a metaphor for garments that give second life to both materials and memories, reinterpreted through craft and care.