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Fast Forward ‘Fat Jew’ Launches ‘Secret’ Fashion Venture With Tommy Hilfiger
Josh Ostrovsky, the social media personality known as the “Fat Jew,” is teaming up with fashion super-designer Tommy Hilfiger on a “secret” project he referred to while at New York Fashion Week. “I’m doing something with Tommy Hilfiger, some cute stuff… still secret,” he told the New York Post at a party on Monday. Ostrovsky,…
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Food 5 Ways To Match Your Clothes To Your Rosh Hashanah Dishes
Are you the kind of person who insists on matching the polish on your fingernails to your toenails? Does the idea of print mixing stress you out? Do you ascribe to arcane style rules like matching your bag to your shoe? Well, luckily for all you anal-retentive ladies, I have a proposal that will blow…
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The Schmooze Gloria Steinem Racks Up A New First At Fashion Week
Gloria Steinem, feminist icon, was, in 1972, the first woman to speak at the National Press Club. In 1976 she attended the first of what would be a series of formational women-only Seders. That same year, Ms. Magazine, of which she was a co-founder, became the first national magazine to dedicate coverage to the subject…
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Life Is Jewish Fashion Blogging Unethical?
On a recent sunny morning, a friend of mine was scrolling through her Instagram, when she received a DM (direct message for you non-Instagram folks) from a modest Jewish fashion blogger. “Hey, I love your creations,” the message went. “Would love to collab and feature you on my page.” The fashion blogger wanted my friend,…
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Life 4 Jewish It-Brands To See (And Be Seen) At New York Fashion Week
Labor Day weekend is over, the air has not yet crisped and the last vestiges of summer desperately claws on, screaming hot air as it takes its last dying breath. In other words, it’s New York Fashion Week. When hordes of stylish men and women from around the world will descend on these asphalt streets,…
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Community Seriously, Billy Joel: The Yellow Stars Have Got To Go.
When I was four years old, my family immigrated to America from the USSR. I was born in Kaunas, Lithuania to Jewish parents who filled my childhood with vivid stories of horrendous anti-Semitism and raised me to be an unapologetic Zionist. To me, Judaism went hand in hand with a love and respect for the…
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Life Meet the Orthodox Entrepreneur Bringing Luxe Fashion to the Masses
Yoni Chesner was no fashion expert growing up. He was a yeshiva student; his first job was making $6 an hour in a bagel shop in his hometown of Baltimore. “I went to the clearance section at Ross,” he says now, chuckling. But one visit to the Saks Fifth Avenue Company store in Aberdeen, Maryland,…
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Community Sorry, Frum Fashion Police: We Orthodox Women Will Keep Wearing Whatever The Heck We Want
A piece appeared in the fashion section of the Forward a couple days ago by Michelle Honig, in which she deplored the ubiquitousness of the layering shell — a tightly-fitting top that Orthodox Jewish women wear beneath tops that would otherwise not meet Orthodox standards of modesty. She expressed the opinion that these things are…
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