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Life An Israeli Pop Up Shop Just In Time For Hanukkah
What happens when a young, entrepreneurial New York-based fashion maven becomes enamored with Israeli fashion? You get an Israeli pop-up, just in time for the holidays. Beged — which literally means “clothes” in hebrew — will be open to the public for the entirety of Hanukkah, from Wednesday, December 13 to Wednesday, December 20. Located…
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Life Net-A-Porter Has A ‘Modest’ Fashion Section?
Further proving that modest fashion isn’t some trend that will slowly shrivel up and die as it cycles out of the unrelenting fashion wheel of change, Net-a-porter has unveiled an entire section of its site devoted to modesty fashion. Like all e-tailers, the luxury fashion site has a tab marked “clothing” with classically merchandised categories,…
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Life Black Friday Fashion Deals That Will Blow Your Mind
Today is Black Friday, which means we have officially entered sale season. And let’s get real here: Thanksgiving is great and all — you get to stuff yourself full with turkey and all the fixin’s while being surrounded by friends and family — but we’re here for the sales. And Black Friday isn’t even just…
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Life Karl Lagerfeld Claims Taking In Refugees Is Embracing The Enemies Of Jews
According to a report in the Times of Israel Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld evoked controversy this week when he made an appearance on French talk show Canal 8 and eviscerated German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her open borders policy. According to a translation provided by the Times, Lagerfeld said, “You cannot kill millions of Jews…
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Life Israel Targets Fashion Industry Over Underweight Models
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Israeli lawmakers want to tighten a ban on the employment of underweight models and on the undeclared digital slimming-down of fashion images, amid concern that the measures are being routinely flouted even as they are adopted abroad. The fashion industry’s use of wafer-thin models has long been the subject of heated…
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Fast Forward Amazon Sells Halloween-Themed Anti-Circumcision T-Shirts
Just in time for Halloween, Amazon is selling outfits designed to scare you with…circumcision? The popular online retailer posted a link on Monday to buy T-shirts with the words “cut pumpkins not babies” circling a snarling jack-o-lantern. The shirts are available in men’s and women’s sizes and five different colors for $16.99. Unlike a mohel,…
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Life 8 Chic Modest Dresses Under $100 For The Synagogue Runway on Rosh Hashanah
Jewish holidays are joyous occasions — food abounds, the family gathers together and there’s laughing, singing and (sometimes) dancing. But nothing stresses out the modern Jewish woman quite like finding the perfect outfit to wear for the holiday. You see, besides for being edifices of holiness and prayer, synagogues are also the Jewish version of…
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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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