Gym class, walls colorfully covered with small square tiles, cafeteria lunches – the hues of these memories are all familiar to many Hungarians, and now the country’s iconic Tisza shoe brand and leading Magyar fashion designer Dóri Tomcsányi teamed up to create a new collection that brings back the style of post-communist Hungary. The limited-edition capsule collection will hit Budapest stores later on this month.

When a contemporary designer and a classic brand work together, the results can be very exciting, and easy on the eyes. In this case, the meeting of these Magyar fashion titans harkens back to the post-communist past of Hungary, when the regime change brought about new optimism set amid the colorful-but-crumbling settings of the Soviet era. Tisza Cipő and TOMCSANYI collaborated to create this capsule collection: the patterns on the iconic velcro Tisza shoes display the digital prints of Dóri’s 2016 fall collection, inspired by the luxury of the emerging Eastern-European jet set. The collection consists of four models, and there are only 90 pairs of each of them.

As the website of Tisza says, both brands cite memories that feel nostalgic: the tiles of the cafeteria, gym class in uniform shoes, the concrete buildings of Socialist Realism style… yet both the shoes and the clothes are trendsetters thanks to their modern shapes, styles, and boldly unusual color combinations.

The limited-edition shoes of the collection will be available at Tisza Cipő stores and at The Garden Studio from September 23rd.