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Opinion 4 Ways Jews Are Thriving in France
People stand outside the ‘As du Fallafel’ shop in the Marais district in Paris / Getty Images The news from France is bleak: anti-Semitic sentiment is on the rise, violent incidents are piling up, and Jews are packing up and leaving for Israel. Recently, I learned that one of my cousins, tired of feeling marginalized,…
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Opinion For Vogue, Palestinian Is the New Israeli
Palestinian Gigi Hadid eyes Israeli Michaela Bercu on Vogue’s 1988 November issue / Vogue When Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour was preparing the cover shoot for her very first issue back in 1988, she chose an Israeli model — Michaela Bercu — to grace the front of the glossy magazine. This summer, as Wintour prepared for…
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The Schmooze Rebecca Minkoff Is Making Fashion Week Digital
Courtesy of Rebecca Minkoff Who says tech can’t look good? Rebecca Minkoff sees no contradiction. The 33-year-old designer is reportedly set to debut wearable tech at her New York Fashion Week show on Friday. The accessories, developed in collaboration with Case-Mate, include a $120 bracelet that alerts you to incoming calls and messages (for when…
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Life On Instagram, Modest Fashion Goes Interfaith
Mimi Hecht and Mushky Notik / Courtesy of MIMU MAXI We are living in an age of unprecedented democratization. Of fashion. Thanks to the rise of chains like Zara and H&M, which offer fresh-from-the-runway styles at ordinary-people prices, and to the emergence of social media, which gives every aspiring Anna Wintour an outlet, the fashionista…
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Books The Clothes We Carried
Musician Rosanne Cash reminisces about a purple shirt that once belonged to her legendary father. Designer Cynthia Rowley rhapsodizes about the Girl Scouts sash that helped ignite her entrepreneurial spark. And an octogenarian Holocaust survivor named Dorothy Finger shares memories of a suit made with a bolt of cloth she took from her childhood home…
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The Schmooze Zara Pulls Striped ‘Holocaust’ Shirt
In worst idea ever, Zara sells shirt similar to that of Nazi camp inmates. On Israeli site too http://t.co/Kqs3PfXq31 pic.twitter.com/PRuEfn6Wsr — Oren Kessler (@OrenKessler) August 27, 2014 The international clothing chain Zara has apologized for offering for sale a blue and white striped shirt with a six –pointed yellow star on the chest. The shirt,…
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The Schmooze Lauren Bacall’s Style Is Getting A Museum Exhibit
Before Beyonce, there was Lauren Bacall. The countless odes and elegies to the late actress, who died last week at age 89, have all but confirmed her place as Hollywood Golden Age’s queen of cool. And now, we hear her impeccable style (which a “To Have or Have Not” obsessed tween may or may not…
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Life Can a Maxi Skirt Bridge Cultural Divide?
Mushky Notik (left) and Mimi Hecht (right) created Mimu Maxi Together, sisters-in-law Mimi Hecht and Mushky Notik run Mimu Maxi, a fashion label the creates clothes that are both modest and chic. The women, members of the Crown Heights Hasidic community, came up with idea for the company when struggling to find something stylish to…
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