The Forward’s $1,000 flak jacket: The tale of an Israeli talisman
Since Oct. 7, this protective gear passed through many hands. Our reporters loved to hate it
Since Oct. 7, this protective gear passed through many hands. Our reporters loved to hate it
Modeling for the fashion line Kith, Seinfeld wears some collegiate looks — and some weirdly garish ones
When Brooklyn-based Orthodox Jewish sisters Mushky Notik and Mimi Hecht started their brand ‘Mimu Maxi’ in 2014, they couldn’t have imagined their Instagram platform would grow into the success it is today, with over 45K followers. As such, the ‘proud Jewish sisters from Brooklyn’ take to the platform, from time to time, to comment on…
An Orthodox Jewish woman who was kicked out of a gym for working out in a skirt has reached a legal settlement with the fitness facility that will allow her to return and work out in the attire of her choosing. Yosefa Jalal Wood-Isenberg sued the all-female gym Lucille Roberts after alleging that she was…
Rachel Zabar has gone from serving up caviar at her family’s famous Upper West Side grocery store to selling vintage clothes to the stars. That’s according to a Sunday profile in The New York Times that takes a look at the Jewish grocery store heiress’ masterful move into the competitive world of second-hand clothes dealing….
A T-shirt design company has come under fire this week for creating -— and then defending —- clothing items that make use of the swastika symbol. As the company, KA Design, showed in this video, it wanted to make “the new swastika” so as to rid the symbol of its association with Nazism. “They took…
“The time to change the narrative around women and work once and for all is long overdue; in fact, it’s become my life’s mission,” Ivanka Trump wrote in her book “Women Who Work.” While Trump works on the “narrative,” the thousands of women in Bangladesh, Indonesia and China who make garments for her eponymous clothing…
“We’re building, grooving, growing.” So says Dov Charney, the disgraced ex-CEO of American Apparel, in Bloomberg. But he’s not talking about American Apparel — the company liquidated its inventory after declaring bankruptcy a second time in January of this year. Charney has a new company — Los Angeles Apparel — and he’s using the same…
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