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Wearing Your Heart on Your Sleeve
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.
Designer Fashions Hobby Into Business
When M.R.S President Molly Stern was growing up in Los Angeles and attending Yeshiva University of Los Angeles High School, she felt out of place. \”I fancied myself a tomboy, if you will,\” said the 30-year-old designer of the M.R.S label. \”And I never really felt comfortable with my body, being a curvy, short woman in Los Angeles.\”
The Circuit
Nearly 600 guests were onhand as philanthropist Susan Samueli was honored at the John Wayne Cancer Institute (JWCI) Auxiliary\’s annual membership luncheon, held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire on Oct 23 during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Blackwell Knows Best
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.
Hot Dresses for
Melanie Griffith and Annie Potts shop there. So do Blythe Danner and Gwyneth Paltrow. And so do dozens of Orthodox Jewish women.
Tailor-Made
The offspring of aleft-leaning coalition of Jewish groups and spearheaded by theAmerican Jewish Congress, the commission has set out to examineconditions in Los Angeles\’ garment industry and suggest possibleactions for the Jewish community to follow.
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