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Israel’s designer gurus, newbies gear up for Fashion Week

The third year of the Tel Aviv show will feature 36 veteran and novice designers

By Jessica Steinberg
  • Jessica Steinberg, The Times of Israel's culture and lifestyles editor, covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center
 13 September 2015, 10:46 am
A sneak peek at Sharon Tal's Maskit upcoming Summer 2016 collection that may make it into the Gindi Fashion Week (Courtesy Maskit Instagram)

Israel’s now-annual Gindi TLV Fashion Week is set to take place after the Jewish holiday season, from October 18 to 21.

The list of designers showing collections is up to 36, including a solid collection of long-time Israeli designers as well as newcomers to the Israeli fashion scene.

The veteran designers include father-and-daughter team Gideon and Karen Oberson, Dorin Frankfurt, Shai Shalom, Hagar Alambik for Alembika, Tovaleh, Dorit Bar Or, Sharon Tal for Maskit, Betty Eldad from Bet-ka, and Rima Romano, and, from the pack of newer designers, Rachel Cohen from Common Raven, Yael and Tamar Levy of Muslin Brothers, Nir and Rotem Guetta of Hanna, and several others.

Israel doesn’t have a couture fashion industry, and designers tend to show casual, ready-to-wear clothing with a small selection of gowns and few menswear collections.

The sharp lines and design of the Muslin Brothers, one of the newer designers showing at Gindi Fashion Week in October (Courtesy Instagram)

Motti Reif, the producer of the show, told Ynet that there will be foreign buyers present at the four-day show. Most Israeli designers sell their collections in Israel, with only a few succeeding with exports abroad.

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