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(6 Oct 2014) LEADIN:
Hungarian fashion designers say the interest in fashion, and locally made designer outfits is growing.
Designers from across central Europe are presenting their creations at the Central European Fashion Days event in Budapest.
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Fashion designer Sara Balint is working on her next creation made from intricately stitched white lace.
Balint is preparing for her next collection to go on show at Budapest's Central European Fashion Days.
And it's a city now in vogue according to Balint,and she claims there's now a buzz around Hungarian fashion.
She sells her collections at several locations in Vienna and Budapest.
"Gradually, there is a market being created in Hungary by people who are specifically searching for Hungarian designers and this is growing every year," she says.
"I hope that in time even the smaller Hungarian brands will become well-known and people will pointedly look for them."
Now, Balint is preparing to showcase her work alongside fashion designers from Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, an exciting prospect she says.
"Personally, I'm very glad that designers are coming from abroad, from the other countries around us," she says.
"I think it will be good for everybody to meet up. This is only the first or second time this is happening so it does not really have a long tradition and I can't say what relationships are developing, but I think this will get stronger every year and it will turn into something meaningful."
And as the models hit the runway, the Hungarian fashion designer was pleased with how her work was received.
"I'm satisfied with the show," she says.
"I think it was very pretty, both the setting of the runway and the models. Everyone did a very professional job so I'm very pleased."
Fashion Days is being held on an ice skating rink in Budapest's City Park.
Each country being represented has separate showcases for its designers.
But undoubtedly the highlight of the entire three-day event is this competition for fashion designers.
It's drawn almost 200 entries and now the final selected nineteen collections are being paraded on the catwalk.
Designers in the competition were asked to use elements from the cultures of other countries in the region for their creations.
Though not everyone stuck to that premise, some designers drew inspiration from Polish-born scientist Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
Other inspiration included Czech beers, Prague's colourful doors and even Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution of 1989 which toppled the country's communist regime.
While the event has taken place since 2011 and designers from other countries in the region were given room on the runway last year, this year is the first time non-Hungarian designers have been invited to present their collections in the competition.
And they're immediately making their mark, Polish designer Domi Grzybek wins the Visegrad Prize for garment design.
It includes a business development grant of 10,000 euros ($12,539 USD).
Grzybek says her clothes - which feature hundreds of thin, bright ribbons - were influenced by her own youth in the northern Polish city of Bialystok.
"The main thing about my inspiration was first childhood memories about my city," she says.
"So, I put the feelings of the memories, of the very strange, unique kind of child's point of view into the clothes."
And now they've been seen on the catwalk, fashion fans can even get their hands on Grzybek's designs at some locations across Europe.
Central European Fashion Days Budapest runs from 3-5 October 2014.

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