Hungary
Made by: Earth’s Fashion
Introduction
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Basic information
Geography, Topography
Climate
People and Religion
Fashion
FamousCities: Pécs, Kalocsa, Budapest
Models of Hungary
Basic information
Hungary is a landlocked
country in Central Europe. The
foundation of the country was laid in the
late 9th century by the Hungarian prince
Árpád. The present form of government
is a parliamentary republic, which was
established in 1989. Today, Hungary is a
high-income economy and a member of
the European Union, NATO, the OECD
and is a Schengen state.
Capital
(largest city)
Budapest
Official language Hungarian
Government
Parliamentary
Republic
Area
93,030 km2
Population
9,942,000
Curreny
Forint
Geography and Topography
• Geographic Coordinates: 13°45’N , 100° 29’E
• Slightly more than one half of Hungary's landscape consists of flat to rolling plains of the
Pannonian Basin:
Little Hungarian Plain in the west
Great Hungarian Plain in the southeast.
• Transdanubia is a primarily hilly region with a terrain varied by low mountains
(W:Alpokalja, S:Mecsek).
• The highest mountains of the country are located in the Carpathians: these lie in the North
Hungarian Mountains.
• The highest point of the country is the Kékes at 1,014 m/3,327 ft.
• Hungary is divided in two by its main waterway, the Danube (Duna); other large rivers
include the Tisza and Dráva, while Transdanubia contains Lake Balaton, a major body of
water.
• Hungary has 10 national parks, 145 minor nature reserves and 35 landscape protection areas.
Physical map
Climate
• Hungary has a continental climate with hot summers with low overall
humidity levels but frequent rainshowers and mildly cold snowy winters.
• Average annual temperature : 9.7 °C (49.5 °F).
• Temperature extremes are about 41.9 °C (107.4 °F)
• Average high temperature in the summer :23 °C (73.4 °F) to 28 °C (82 °F)
• Average low temperature in the winter: −3 °C (27 °F) to −7 °C (19 °F).
• The average yearly rainfall :600 mm (23.6 in).
• A small, southern region of the country near Pécs enjoys a reputation for a
Mediterranean climate, but in reality it is only slightly warmer than the rest of
the country and still receives snow during the winter.
People and religion
• Due to migrations and significant territorial changes,
the demographics of Hungary have significantly
fluctuated over time. In modern times, Hungary has
become an ethnically homogeneous state.
• 93.6% of the population speak Hungarian, a Uralic
language unrelated to any neighboring language and
distantly related to Finnish and Estonian. The main
minority group are the Roma. Other groups include:
Germans, Slovaks, Croats and Bunjevcis,
Romanians, Ukrainians, Serbs and Slovenes.
• The majority of Hungarians became Christian in the
11th century due to Hungary's first king, Saint
Stephen I.
Catholic
54.5%
Protestant
18.9%
Other
11.1%
Not specified
15.5%
Fashion
The hungarian youth is often interested in fashion, and sometimes
hunagrian fashion conquers the world:
• The hungarian (Kalocsai) motif has been worn by several celebrities,
like Emma Watson, Nicole Kidman, Suri Cruise or Lewis
Hamilton.
Hungarian marks: Tisza, Retro Jeans, Sugarbird, Budmil, Mayo
Chix, Devergo.
Fashion designers: Abodi Dóra, Tóth Bori, Mojzes Dóra, Nanushka.
Pictures
Lewis Hamilton’s suit with
hungarian motifs and
Dora Abodi’s collection
Famous cities
Pécs
is the fifth largest city of Hungary, located on the slopes of the Mecsek mountains in the
south-west of the country and also known as the mediterranean city. Pécs always was a
multicultural city where many cultural layers are encrusted melting different values of the
history of two thousand years, and the first university was founded here in 1367. In 2010
Pécs was selected to be the European Capital of Culture sharing the title together with
Essen and Istanbul. The city's motto is: "The Borderless City".
Pécs is famous about it’s gloves: Gant Pécsi Kesztyű Ltd. founded by Mihály Marczi and
partners in 1993. Main markets for the company in this period were the USA, England,
France, Russia and Austria.
Lady Gaga, the Olsen twins, Christina Aguilera and Queen Elizabeth II. have ’pécsi’
gloces as well.
Pictures
Kalocsa
is a town in Bács-Kiskun county, Hungary. It lies 88 miles south of Budapest. It is
situated in a marshy but highly productive district, near the left bank of the Danube
River. Historically it had greater political and economic importance than at present.
The art of Kalocsa Embroidery was born in the second half of the 19th century.
Originally the needlework was only white and the embroidery patterns were merely
made up by holes. The so-called "hole-embroidery" became very popular. The
women at Kalocsa and in its area could get ready-made Kalocsa embroidery patterns
but they liked creating their own designs as well.
In 2012 the ‚Kalocsa pattern became famous , not in Hungary but in the world by the
suit of Lewis Hamilton.
Pictures
Hungarian ’kalocsai’ motif
Budapest
In the fifth district, you can find one of the most popular shopping streets in Budapest, which is
called Váci street. Here you can buy the most fashionable clothes of the worldwide famous shops,
such as ZARA, H&M, Mango, Salamander. Click to this link and you can also take a virtual trip
on Váci street:
http://budapestiutcak.com/Vaci_utca/budapest-vaci-utca-uzletek-3d-virtualis-tura.php
However we do not organise a fashion week in Hungary, but we have an all year opened Fashion
Street in the city centre.
Originally it was called Deák Ferenc street, but during the years it became to the Fashion Street,
where you can already find
the more exlusive shops than on
Váci street.
If you have passion for fashion, you should
definitely visit Andrássy utca, which is an iconic
boulevard in Budapest, dating back to 1872. It links
Erzsébet Square with the Városliget. Lined with
spectacular Neo-renaissance mansions and
townhouses featuring fine facades and interiors, it
was recognised as a World Heritage Site in 2002. It
is also one of Budapest's main shopping streets,
with fine cafes, restaurants, theatres, and luxury
designer boutiques such as Gucci, Louis Vuitton,
Guess etc.
Street fashion always finds the way in a capital,
to express itself. In Budapest you can find
fashionable prints on walls, where usually finedressed women are depicted. It is another type of
’’street fashion”, it is rather called ’’street art”.
The anonymous girl, who creates these pieces of
art, has chosen an illegal hobby because she
usually paints on walls of houses. One of her
’’masterpiece’’ can be seen hereby.
In common with street
fashion, we need to notice,
that this summer the
Kiscelli Museum opened
an exhibition, called
’’Street Fashion Then and
Now’’.
Our company-slogan is: ’’Running in heels has never been this easy before”. And
really. There has been organised for over 4 years a running competition among women,
who need to wear high heels. These shoes need to have heels over 8 centimetres and
they must not be slimmer than 1,5 centimetres. There is always built out a 100 metres
long track for the competitiors. The whole event is organised by a fashion magazine, and
it is becoming even more popular year by year.
the Nanushka boutique on the Fashion street
There are several Hungarian
worldwide well-known designers,
who sould definitely be mentioned,
such as Dora Abodi, Kata
Szegedi, Reka Vago, Nanushka,
Naray Tamas and the team of
USE UNUSED. In the beginning
they were only known in Hungary,
but nowadays mainly all of them
have boutiques around the world
and some of them also participate
on the fashion weeks of New York.
Their boutiques are mostly found in
the city centre, on the Fashion
Street or Andrássy Avenue.
Models of Hungary
In few years our models became more and more
popular and successful not just in the USA but in
worldwide as well. Now I would like to introduce
3 wonderful models to you.
Barbara Palvin
She is a pretty, 19 year-old
Hungarian fashion model, who
was chosen the best model of 2011
by Glamour magazine. She began
her career at the age of 13 and now
she was hired for the campaign of
Stella McCartney for C&A,
Chanel Beauty, Tommy Hilfiger,
Calzedonia, H&M, Cartier,
Express,
Calvin
Klein,
Stradivarius – Chic Twist in 2011.
And in 2012 she was chosen for
the face of L’Oréal Rouge
Caresse
Enikő Mihalik
She is a 25 year-old model and she is
said to be the most wanted model in
our country and internationally as
well. She began her career at the age
of 15 and until now she worked with
Chanel, Gucci, MaxMara, Victoria’s
Secret etc. and had a lot of cover
photo in so famous magazines like
Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and so on.
According to the models.com she is
the 25th most wanted model in the
world.
Zsófi Srej
She is better know as Sophie Srej.
She is 23 years old and she began her model
career after graduating from the high school.
She worked as a model of Prada, Marc Jacobs,
Calvin Klein, Alexander Mcqueen. She had
several cover photos in international magazines
like Vogue, Marie Clare and so on.