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It was an unexpected view that now buy a situation when Emanuel Hungaro introduced his 2026 collection at the International Fashion Festival in Porto Montenegro on Friday evening.
While the festival is organized with consumers to entertain the high-network types that are summarized in this picturesque resort goal, and the public via a live broadcast on national television-one local retailer, Twenty Concept Store, contacted Hungaro officers immediately after the show to secure an order and perfectly for the market for the market find.
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The annual event, which is now in its seventh edition, contained a runway show by French Wunderkind Charles de Vilmorin, the Ruffly, cabaret inspired ensembles, paraded; A master class of the Italian fashion editor and sustainability lawyer Sara Sozzani Mainino and an unusual video display of the fashion of the students, who were brought to life through artificial intelligence, which still seems to have difficulty imitating the Sashays of the runway.
As part of the FAITH Trible Banner, four graduates of recent times showed their designs that can be manufactured with the help of the AI-based production platform resonance on request.
Marie Fournier, General Manager of Hungaro, noticed that the house had a story in the region: In November last November it was a fashion show in Belgrade organized by the French ambassador in Serbia, and 15 years ago in Kotor, Montenegro, when the collection of Osteban Cortázar was designed.
“I love it here,” said Kobi Halperin, the current designer of Hungary, who confessed that a pet about resortwear was regarded as appropriate for urban clothing.
In contrast, he said that it looks at home in Porto Montenegro, where women stroll through his world -famous marina and luxury hotels in colorful, summer dresses and metallic sandals.
“It is very inspiring to see this connection between glamor, practicability and fashion,” he said. “You can feel that people celebrate to dress here.”
The Halperin’s resort collection for Hungaro, strongly on pink, gold sequins and Paisley prints, was recently inspired by a trip to India and was looking for at home in the polished women who belonged by Porto Montenegro and Fabrika, an agency, organized open-air fashion shows that were organized every year.
It is a busy time for the Israeli designer based in New York, who wants to show his signature collection in the French capital with the Emanuel Hungaro show on October 3. “We all deserve to be inspired by Paris,” said Halperin, who, as the event location, the Hôtel de Maisons, the private mansion in which the late Karl Lagerfeld lived for decades.
Fournier said she was delighted with Porto Montenegro, with his luxurious attractions, breathtaking blue water and inviting locals.
“It is a new summer place and it is less crowded than Portofino or Saint-Tropez, so it’s more relaxed,” she said. “And they love fashion. The women are very dressed here, much more than in France. People like glitter – and sequins.”
Indeed, the observation of people is a fun pastime, especially when almost two thirds of the breakfast volume in the Regent Hotel, a long -time sponsor of the festival, wear Hermès Oran Sandals.
You have also registered on the website of the vessels to identify the mega yachts parked on the marina. Included in Kaos, the 361-foot metallic ship by the American billionaire Nancy Walton Laurie, an heir to the Walmart assets.
At the beginning of this month, the basketball legend Michael Jordan and his yacht M’Brace made a Pitstop in Porto Montenegro, where he bleed up on a cigar when the regent’s delicacies of the Gourmet corner.
Sozzani Maina, Creative Director of Fondazione Sozzani, was brought on board as President of the Festival, with the event brought in additional gravitas and credibility – as well as a presentation for their main causes: support of new generations of creative, advocate of education and support for social responsibility.
“I’m not saying that fashion is the devil, but the system has to change,” she said to a small but rapted audience that gathered in the Maritime Heritage Museum on Saturday evening.
The Italian editor showed clips from “The True Cost” and “Junk”, two documentary films that were widespread on planets and people, which were spent on people who were spent by fast-fashion companies and luxury companies. “You need to know what you are buying,” she emphasized, encouraging people to question particularly inexpensive manufacturers who are sometimes dependent on child labor.
The Italian fashion consultant Giorgia Virzì served as a strategic consultant of the festival and in his seventh edition in Porto Montenegro, whose new attractions such as Boka Place, the residences, a Siro Hotel, Sophies Beauty Line and several restaurants, including Jamie’s Italian by Jamie Oliver.
“I think it is very important to drive fashion in different places. There are not only Paris, Milan, New York and London,” said de Vilmorin in an interview. “I think Montenegro has great potential for it. When I saw people on the street, they are all very well dressed, so I think that there is really something to do here.”
The designer decided to create a special 20-look collection for the Montenegro show case, in which the cinematic fabrics, eccentric colors and dramatic flourishes concentrate such as a feather rump or a stack of fezes with built-in sunglasses.
De Vilmorin adheres to his theatrical tendencies and works on an upcoming production of the musical “Une Seconde Avant Noël”, which debut in Paris’ Folies Bergère in December.
“It is an amazing show and I do the decor and the costumes,” he said, describing the piece as “a mixture of emotions, a bit scary, but very poetic”.
Shift, a brand of Montenegro, born in Montenegro Ana Krgović, also took part in the festival and took part in the festival and paraded swollen, pants, beetle jumpsuits with built-in facial masks and other avant-garde look.
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