SLIDESHOW: Fashion Week in Tel Aviv

By JewishJournal.com
Published on November 23, 2011

Syms clothing company, and its affiliate Filene’s Basement, files for bankruptcy

Published on November 3, 2011

Syms clothing company and its affiliate, Filene’s Basement, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Shop for you, shop for the world

Published on October 21, 2011

Consumerism is often dubbed the antithesis of all that is good, but that doesn’t have to be so. More and more, businesses are adopting ethical labor practices, Earth-friendly materials and altruistic causes. We found a few ways for you to flex your consumer power — with a conscience.

Hugo Boss apologizes for its forced labor under Nazis

Published on September 22, 2011

The German fashion house Hugo Boss has apologized for mistreating forced labor at a uniform factory during World War II.

Gypsy 05

By Orit Arfa
Published on September 16, 2011

Inside the waiting area of Gypsy05’s solar-powered plant in downtown L.A., walls are decorated with brightly colored dresses and T-shirts alongside decorative hamsas, fashion magazine clippings, a “blessing of the business” in Hebrew, a picture of the Rebbe and certificates of recognition from American Solar Energy Solutions.

YMI

Published on September 16, 2011

David Vered’s jeans are his daughter’s jeans.

The skin under skinny jeans

Published on September 16, 2011

Those once-coveted outfits in your closet now elicit sighs of “I have nothing to wear” as last year’s trends take their inevitable plunge.

Labels: I Don’t Promote Them – And I Don’t Believe Them

By Annie Korzen
Published on August 31, 2011

A nice Jewish boy to head up Christian Dior?

By Lauren Bottner
Published on August 22, 2011

Vintage Stores and the big Dilemma…

By Julia Bendis
Published on June 20, 2011

Israeli, Jewish Clothing Designers Highlight FIDF Fashion Show [VIDEO]

By Ryan Torok
Published on May 17, 2011

Flanked by two large flags — one Israeli and the other American — fashion models strutted down a long, white catwalk, showing off versatile fashions by local Israeli and Jewish designers during a fashion show at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel on May 12, held in celebration of Yom HaAtzmaut.

Vests and other useless articles of clothing!

By Julia Bendis
Published on January 3, 2011

Schools go to war with Nazi-insignia clothing company

Published on December 22, 2010

Will T-shirts and other items bearing logos and designs resembling World War II Nazi insignia become the latest fashion trend in an Inland Empire school district? Clothes by the Irvine company Metal Mulisha are currently banned by the Murrieta Valley Unified School District, but the company wants back in. This won’t happen if Rabbi Barry Ulrych, a child of Holocaust survivors, can prevent it. His 80-family synagogue, B’nai Chaim of Murrieta, was founded in the 1970s by Jews living near Murrieta Hot Springs, many of them Holocaust survivors. The congregation is located in the middle of the school district, and many of the congregation’s children attend district schools.

‘Jewish hustler’—potty mouth and pervert—means no offense

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on June 3, 2008

Which came first: the building or the dress?

By Morris Newman
Published on September 14, 2006

"Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture," opening Nov. 19 at the Museum of Contemporary Art downtown, proposes that building design and haute couture have increasingly begun to overlap and borrow ideas from one another.

Can Artwork Mend Fences?

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on August 24, 2006

"Sovereign Threads: A History of Palestinian Embroidery". "Threads" offered a different window into the region: a rare opportunity to view Palestinian embroidery, considered among the finest in the world, in what is perhaps the first show of its kind in Los Angeles.

Gear Up for an Israel Vacation

By Lisa Alcalay Klug
Published on June 15, 2006

We've identified select products to help with common travel dilemmas. Peruse our list for solutions to help you pack light, avoid sunburns, save on batteries and more.

Iranian Colored Band Report Discredited

By Karmel Melamed
Published on May 25, 2006

Rumors of anti-Semitic laws in Iran have disturbed local Iranian Jews who have been increasingly concerned for the safety of roughly 25,000 Jews still living in Iran since Ahmadinejad denied the existence of the Holocaust and called for Israel to "wiped off the map" late last year.

525,600 Minutes

By Wendy Jaffe
Published on September 22, 2005

What is the best way to move toward a new year? The Jewish method that calls for an intense review of the past year, or the American approach of entering each new year with a sort of reckless optimism oblivious to what has come before? It seems that the answer depends on whether or not one is a parent.

You Are What You Wear

By Rabbi N. Daniel Korobkin
Published on February 17, 2005

Have you ever read in an advertisement inviting you to buy an overpriced suit or necktie that "It's true, clothes do make the man"?

Do clothes make the man or woman? On the one hand, we'd like to think that people aren't affected by something as superficial as clothing. But on the other hand, it does make a big difference when people are appropriately dressed. For example, an undertaker must wear conservative clothing in order to achieve the desired effect. Can you imagine Chuckles, the Mortician Clown, bedecked in red nose and floppy shoes officiating at a funeral? He probably wouldn't stay in business too long (although, this is California).

From Jew to Jewcy

By Hal Niedzviecki
Published on July 22, 2004

Last year was a big one for Jewish cool. Articles in The Forward; Time Out New York; conservative Candian newspaper, The National Post; and staid British dailies, The Times and The Observer all trumpeted the reinvention of Jewishness as hip and cool. Amalgamate the headlines of those articles and you get something like: "It's Hip to Be Hebrew: Edgy Jewish Chic Gets a Jewcy Makeover."

Quit Staring at My Chest

By Keren Engelberg
Published on October 23, 2003

Sure, your bubbie always said you had a shayna punim, but now there's a T-shirt to help you pronounce it proudly to the world.

Janet’s Retro Planet

By Michael Aushenker
Published on February 6, 2003

It could have been a scene aboard the deck of the Titanic -- before that pesky iceberg hit.

Wearing Your Heart on Your Sleeve

By Jewish Journal Staff
Published on January 23, 2003

Tired of wearing designer clothes and lining the pockets of fashionistas? These days, clothing companies are banking on Jewish pride and charity as the impetus for their labels.

Kabbalah Fashion Statement

By Mica Rosenberg
Published on January 23, 2003

David Shamouelian believes he has tapped into what he thinks is a sure-fire marketing tool: 4,000 years of Jewish mysticism.

Tzedakah for Chanukah

By Journal Staff
Published on December 5, 2002

The Chanukah effort is one of the first outcomes of Morasha's involvement with a three-year national research project of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles.

Clothes Call

By Michael Aushenker
Published on March 21, 2002

There was a time when the retail clothing industry was thriving. "In the '80s, my customers spent almost 8 percent of their disposable income on clothing," said David Sacks, owner of Sacks SFO apparel stores. However, time and a change in consumer habits have eroded this reality. Over the last decade, Sacks, 53, has had to close several of his outlets. He watched his retail miniempire dwindle from 20 stores nationwide to two local outlets: one in Studio City (12021 Ventura Blvd.) and a new location in Culver City (9608 Venice Blvd.).

Blackwell Knows Best

By Michael Aushenker
Published on January 24, 2002

Do not envy Anne Robinson. When Richard Blackwell (ne Richard Selzer), the fashion critic of the rich and famous, released his 42nd annual lists of apparel achievers and fashion faux pas on Jan. 8, the pretentiously garbed British game show host topped his Worst Dressed Woman of 2001 list.

A Helping Hand

By Jolie Greiff
Published on October 8, 1998

"Where's the jelly? I need five jellies."
"Hand me 18 fruit rolls, will you?"

"I love your skirt, where did you get it?"

The scene: A typical Thursday evening at Tomchei Shabbos' warehouse, at 353 1/2 N. La Brea Ave., where a team of fast-working, quick-talking volunteers gathers to pack overflowing food boxes for needy families in Los Angeles.