In 1886, Naphtali Herz Imber, an English poet originally from Bohemia, wrote the words to Israel\’s national anthem, \”Hatikvah.\” Samuel Cohen, an immigrant from Moldavia, wrote the melody
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.\”
Depending on whom you ask, Bratz are odd-looking multiethnic dolls with big eyes and skimpy clothes – or they\’re, like, the coolest things ever.
\”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.\”
\”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.
Whether a Jewish wedding is white tie and tails at a five-star hotel, blue jeans and bare feet on a beach or something in between, today\’s betrothed couples are choosing to custom mix and match the components that come together to form a unique and perfect union.
An enjoyable chick-lit book, \”The Devil Wears Prada,\” in movie form follows the novel\’s storyline, with slight modifications to the plot that only enhance our understanding of Andy\’s dilemma. And for the fashion buff, the insider\’s view of the inner workings of a haute couture, albeit fictional, fashion magazine are amusing.
The Animal Alliance, in cooperation with Animal Fair Media, held its sixth annual Paws for Style at Loew\’s Beverly Hills Hotel. Dr. Gady Levy was selected for a prestigious Nahum Goldmann Fellowship. Rabbi Elliot Dorff was appointed by the California Department of Health Services (DHS) to convene a Human Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee. A celebration of life event was held recently to honor the late Robert Maguire Jr.
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