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Fashion & Beauty: Highlighting the hottest local Israeli designers
Some of the top names in fashion today are Jewish: Donna Karan, Anne Klein, Calvin Klein, Michael Kors.
Gypsy 05
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.
Tal Sheyn
Tal Sheyn likes to say she built her fashion career “from Z to A.”
Dina Bar-El
If you’ve seen Kate Hudson’s stunning yellow gown in “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,” then you are already acquainted with the work of Los Angeles-based Israeli designer Dina Bar-El.
Design yourself
I was inspired to create a fashion issue because I look at personal style as a shortcut to becoming whoever I want to be.
Floating fashions are totally tubular
Forget cotton, Lycra and leather. Israeli balloon twister Ori Livney has a new material that could put a real bounce in your gown: rubber.
\”The air is the expensive part,\” says Ori Livney, grinning from behind a pile of colorful rubber balloons. \”But it\’s not as complicated as it sounds. I can make just about any regular dress out of balloons. The challenge is to make it a perfect custom fit.\”
Rainbow-haired couturier takes fashion fun seriously
\”I\’m a colorful person,\” Tochterman said. \”I like color; I like texture; I like mixing things together. I think my customer is a sophisticated, ageless, confident woman.\”