The latest spectacle of the Balatonfüred Katti Zoób Fashion & Museum project takes on the name of ’Love’. Fashion is a narrative just as much as it is a stage scene, where history, aesthetics, arts of fashion and character-shaping costumes are bound together by love. Tickets can be purchased at jegy.hu and on site.

The clothes are daring, stunning, provocative, the kind that subtly shapes or even changes you. Fashion’s elusive promise of transformation is wedded to clothes, focused only on the body or the soul.

The parallel between love and fashion is complex, attires embody and reveal one’s yearning, obsession, conflicts and antagonism. Silk and love with hands joined, have shaped the chronicles of mankind, and became symbols of sensuality, extravagance and decadence.

The colour red represents love, passion and seduction; the colour of blood stands for life, but also can be peril and aggression in western culture’s associations - while the East’s diagnosis is the following: blood shades are the symbol of love, luck and fertility. Contemporary red dresses represent the art of fashion with true wit and minimalist beauty.

The exhibition utilizes heirloom, reconstructed and contemporary artifacts to present the art of fashion, illuminating fundamental human instincts and urges. Stimulating us to wonder about the numerous divergent formations of love, all to be discovered in fashion relations.

The exposition of the Katti Zoób Fashion & Museum presents the many peculiarities of ‘The Wardrobe of Love’ via filigree contradistinctions. Skilled couture methodologies from the 19th century are standing against renowned 20thcentury designer pret-a-porter creations like the costumes of Paco Rabanne, Lanvin, Temperley London, Agnès B – showcasing the expressive power of the masters of fashion. Contemporary creators fire up love by the art of tailoring and fine-tuned modern textile technologies – just like Merő Péter, whose 21st century classic, an enchanting red satin evening gown lets the female figure flash.

Other contrasts can be uncovered from opera costumes, merging from the symbol system of love and fashion. The immense fairy-tale of Rusalka by Dvořák premiered in 2024 at the Hungarian State Opera - directed by János Szikora, in the costumes of Kati Zoób. An eager mind can learn a lot from the myth of Rusalka about the relations betwixt women and men, desire, obsession and unfulfillment. The ‘belle époque’ - as in the ‘age of beauty’ – Mucha’s universe came to life around the turn-of-century - the textbook contrary of the upcoming decadent era.

The exhibition of LOVE teaches us about lovers of fashion and couture, the ones becoming the lover of heritage and culture. Fashion’s storytelling is one of its primal intents. For 5000 years, silk became the symbol of love, devotion and opulence - the textile of emotion and remembrance. Traditions, biographies, craving and stirring fables are all murmuring us to dig deeper underneath the facet of fashion’s bond towards us.

The exhibition of LOVE is open to the public till 29th June 2025.