section_path: Culture and contemporary life/Fashion
section_name: Fashion
paragraph_text: Fashion
  
  Budapest is home to a fashion week twice a year, where the city's fashion designers and houses present their collections and provide a meeting place for the fashion industry representatives. Budapest Fashion Week additionally a place for designers from other countries may present their collections in Budapest. Hungarian models, like Barbara Palvin, Enikő Mihalik, Diána Mészáros, Viktória Vámosi usually appearing at these events along international participants. Fashion brands like Zara, H&M, Mango, ESPRIT, Douglas AG, Lacoste, Tommy Hilfiger, Guess, Nike and other retail fashion brands are common across the city's shopping malls and on the streets.
  
  Major luxury fashion brands such as Louis Vuitton, Burberry, Furla, Gucci, Versace, Zegna, Max Mara, Michael Kors, Karl Lagerfeld and Hugo Boss, or luxury watch brands such as Rolex, Hublot, Omega, Breitling, Tissot and TAG Heuer, can be found among the city's most prestigious shopping streets, the Fashion Street, Váci Street and Andrássy Avenue in Budapest's main upscale fashion district, the Leopoldtown.