THE DESIGNER
Brigitta Szekernyés is a Hungarian designer who graduated from the Sustainable Fashion and Business bachelor’s program at the Copenhagen School of Design & Technology in 2018. She launched her project, solær, in 2022, specializing in unique crochet and knitwear. Currently, she is pursuing a master’s degree in Fashion and Textiles at The Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen, to further build on her commitment to sustainability, innovation, and craftsmanship. Her work, which focuses on slow fashion, yarn experimentation, and upcycling, has been featured in various online and print media and showcased at Milan, Copenhagen, and Budapest Fashion Week.
THE BRAND
Solær’s pieces are based on the principles of longevity and circularity. Brigitta believes that human and natural resources within our environment should not pay the price of our imagination, creation processes, and constant desire for newness. Instead, she wishes to redefine what is already out there, while connecting the well-known and familiar, with the unexpected. While prioritizing natural, second-hand materials to create newness, the pieces 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.
THE COLLECTION
“Where the Sun Rises Twice” is a personal collection that transforms garments into wearable time capsules.
Inspired by childhood summers in Torockó, Transylvania, it interlaces Hungarian folklore, myth, and family stories with sustainable craft practices.
Through crochet, zero-waste digital knit, and upcycled textiles, each piece captures fragments of place, play, and intimacy, while challenging fashion’s disposability.
The collection is anchored in a universal longing: to return to a place that exists only in memory, and to hold on to 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.
Each look encapsulates a distinct fragment of that time—cloud gazing, flower picking with my 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 my family’s layered heritage as part of the Hungarian minority in Romania.