Israeli style celebrates inclusivity, sandals and SpongeBob

From veteran Israeli suit and couture clothier Gideon Oberson to cool animated film individual SpongeBob SquarePants, the 2019 edition of Fashion Week Tel Aviv had something for all and sundry – and indeed, its subject matter changed into broadening the suitable of beauty to be fully inclusive Producer Motti Reif said models “of every age, sizes, heights, colors, and religions” have been chosen for the seventh version of the display to highlight “this crucial trade taking place today within the world and to legitimize the reality that fashion belongs to anyone.” In partnership with the Ministry of Economy, the March eleven-13 occasion at Hangar eleven inside the Tel Aviv Port featured 22 Israeli designers. It opened with a gala tribute to Oberson, who will hold designing only swimming wear after fifty-six years in the business.

The occasion covered a plus-size runway show from the new Tel Aviv style residence Retama and a look by using plus-size Eurovision champion Netta Barzilai modeling a Bananhot go well with. Among collaborating designers/layout houses in this 12 months’ show were Dorin Frankfurt, Vivi Balaish, Shay Shalom, Comme-il-Faut, Alon Livne, Maskit, Idan Laros, Lara Rosnovsky, Dror Kontento, Bananhot, Shahar Avnet, Uriah Azran, Anya Fleet, and Shoresh (Source).

Shoresh/Source – currently presented the name “the maximum Israeli client product” in an opposition-held by way of the Ministry of EEconomicand renowned international for iits out-of-door equipment, including trekking, sandalsheadlined the Fashion Week opening show in honor of its thirtieth anniversary. For this occasion, Source invited 30 Israeli style designers — together with Ronen Chen, Rina Tzin, Tali Kushnir, Kian Frankfurt, and Amos Wars — to layout clothes stimulated via the 4 elements of nature, water, earth, air, and earth, to release its most recent made-in-Israel women’s sandal line.

The renowned style design department of Shenkar College of Engineering, Design, and Art presented “All the Colors of the Rainbow,” a display of garment layout spanning fashion tendencies from the 16th to early 20th century. The runway display changed into titled “We’re All Different, and We’re All Equal,” in the guide of the Israeli LGBTQ community.

“While the designs proved on the runway reproduce duration styles and info, they do now not reproduce the color palette. In the original shades’ location, every garment became designed in one of the seven colors of the spectrum, from crimson to violet. The fashions inside the display are the scholars themselves, who served as fashions for each other all through the direction, and on whom the entire pattern-making manner turned into carried out,” Shankar’s spokeswoman defined.

Fashion Week also paid tribute to the 20, the “birthday” of SpongeBob Square Pants with a style display inspired with the aid of Nickelodeon’s iconic character. The occasion protected Krembo Wings’s advantage, an Israeli youngsters organization that integrates youngsters with special needs into mainstream scouting movements.