Michelle Honig
By Michelle Honig
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Life Is Ivanka’s High-Necked Dress The New Power Suit?
Last week, Ivanka Trump, accompanied by the Secretary of the Treasury, Steven Mnuchin, appeared on Tucker Carlson’s Fox cable news show to discuss tax reform wearing a high-necked shift dress. Ivanka’s shift dress was worn throughout a day filled with lobbying for tax reform, including a “fireside chat” stop at the Reagan Library in California….
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Life Style Star Leandra Medine Is Pregnant — With Twins!
This morning The Tot — a curated baby goods site that was founded by street style stars Miroslava Duma and Nasiba Adilova — announced on their Instagram account that Leandra Medine, founder of the fashion site Man Repeller, is pregnant with twin girls. “The first trimester felt like an alien invasion,” she told The Tot….
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Culture Does A Jewish Museum Fashion Exhibit Shortchange Jewish Culture?
A new exhibit at Manhattan’s Jewish Museum, “Veiled Meanings,” opens on a striking note, showcasing three different veiled women’s garments that many Americans would not, on first look, associate with Jews, including the Afghani chadur. The exhibit, a brief chronicle of garments common in Jewish communities of the past, has the potential to be a…
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Life The Perfect Hanukkah Dress — So You Can Forget That Ugly, Itchy Holiday Sweater
Target is great for a lot of things — like how, no matter how many things you came to get, you will inevitably spend more than $100 on random crap. But it’s also a mecca for some great fashion finds. Occasionally there will be a collaboration with some big-shot designer, like Jason Wu or Missoni….
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Life Is Drake The Jewish Male Rihanna?
Ever since his red Moncler puffer moment in the video for “Hotline Bling” (which, unsurprisingly, spiked sales of said Moncler puffer and gave a boost of holiday cheer to puffer makers worldwide), Drake has become a kind of male version of Rihanna; that is to say, a performer-cum-style icon. And so it seems appropriate —…
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Food This Controversial Rabbi Is Making Vegan Restaurants Kosher, One Hotspot At A Time
Around 10 years ago, Rabbi Zev Schwarcz was walking the streets of the West Village when he noticed an inconspicuous storefront: There was no awning, only a simple red flag adorned with a meditating cartoon cow that flapped lightly in the wind above the hand-painted plate glass windows. The storefront — a vegan restaurant called…
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Life Apparently, Gymboree Thought Holocaust Fashion Was Appropriate For Toddlers
Yesterday, the Jerusalem Post reported that children’s clothing purveyor, Gymboree, was selling a dress with a Jewish star patch on its online site. The patch, which according to the product description was meant to depict a snowflake, has six points which is eerily similar to the Jewish star. The blue-and-white plaid dress is vaguely reminiscent…
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Life 11 Up-And-Coming Modest Jewish Brands You Need To Know Now
A few years ago, when fashion cycled back into more modest dress codes, the tone was distinctive in its religious flavor: modest dress wasn’t just another seasonal fashion trend, it was a revelatory moment for Christians, Muslims and Jews who ascribe to laws of modesty. A large part of this revolution was due to social…
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