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Berlin Fahrradschau + PaperSpokes

23 March 2016

THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2016 Between March 18 and 20 2016 we took part in Berliner Fahrradschau in Berlin with PaperSpokes. It was one of the main events of Berlin Bicycle Week, and most of the big cycling brands were represented there. We had applied for the exhibition...

What markets teach me as a tights designer

16 March 2016

THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2016 We’ve been taking Virivee to more and more markets in Vienna lately. The market we did last November went extremely well, so we spent the first weekend of March at another design market in Vienna, Austria. As an independent tights designer and...

10 tips for female entrepreneurs

4 September 2015

THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2015 A few months ago I wrote a short list on Medium about the advice I would give to female entrepreneurs who are just starting out. I thought it would be worth putting it on my own blog too. I had already been an entrepreneur for around 15 years,...

My own US mailing address from the EU?

22 July 2015

THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2015 It had happened to me several times before that I found something online that I really wanted to buy, only to discover at checkout that the US webshop didn’t ship internationally. At that point you can either give up on the purchase, or if you...

Finally, the Virivee tights shop is open!

4 March 2015

THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2015 Finally, finally! After a month and a half of delays, the first Virivee shop in Budapest, Hungary opened on Monday. Opening a physical shop is a pretty big milestone for a small independent fashion business, and for me, this is a particularly...

Virivee tights, TV show and a very red nose

8 November 2014

THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2014 Last week I was filming with Zita Görög, a well-known Hungarian model, actress and television personality, and for the first time, Virivee is going to appear on a TV show that is actually about fashion and aimed at the kind of audience I want to...

Apparently, one shop isn’t enough

21 October 2014

THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2014 A few months ago, I applied for two commercial spaces on Dob Street in Budapest, hoping that I would get at least one of them. The spaces were rented out by the local government through an auction system, so there was no guarantee that I would...

The leggings experiment, my first leggings designs

15 August 2014

THIS IS AN ARCHIVE POST FROM 2014 For quite a while now, it has felt like a natural step to expand the Virivee range with leggings. They are obviously a related product, and customers regularly ask me whether I’m going to make leggings too. So I’ve decided to try putting...

Viri Vig

I’ve always been an entrepreneur, working across graphic design, retail, and creative businesses. For the past 12 years I’ve been designing tights and building Virivee.