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Estonia's Prime Minister Kristen Michal speaks with the media as he arrives for an EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, December 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
December 20, 2024, 6:38 am
Estonian government rebukes university for cutting ties with Israeli institution
Estonian Academy of Arts says it’s now reviewing decision to cancel workshop by visiting professor from Shenkar College, after premier and FM condemn move
By Shira Li Bartov
In a joint project, Ori Topaz, a designer from Shenkar College produces sustainable leather handbags made from salmon skins using digital printing technology developed by Kornit Digital. (Achikam Ben Yosef)
January 30, 2024, 5:36 pm
Seeking eco-friendly material, Israeli innovators look to scale up fish-skin handbags
A designer and an engineer join an EU-funded project to test the viability of recycling piscine waste into leather for the fashion industry; they feel success is in the bag
By Sharon Wrobel
At the newly formed Safe Side, Oz Zechovoy's volunteer sewing workshop in Jaffa that designs and makes combat gear pieces for soldiers in the 2023 Israel-Hamas War (Courtesy Rom Barnea)
October 22, 2023, 12:00 pm
Designers sew for combat soldiers, pivoting from fashion to function
Design schools Bezalel and Shenkar ramp up volunteer teams to customize gear for troops and reservists
By Jessica Steinberg
Fashion designer David Weksler's models battle it out on the runway in Tel Aviv Kornit Fashion Week, March 19, 2023 (Courtesy Haydon Perrior)
March 21, 2023, 1:56 am
Tel Aviv Fashion Week sees anti-overhaul protest on the runway
Designer David Weksler places placards in some models’ hands; another, dressed as a police officer, hands out ‘fines’ to audience members
By Jessica Steinberg
Digital artwork created by Ofir Liberman, a designer of innovative interactive products, and a lecturer at the Shenkar College of Engineering, Design, and Art with the assistance of AI technology. (Image created with Midjourney)
December 18, 2022, 5:06 pm
Paint by algorithm: Can AI make art, or is it all just derivative?
Drawing on advances in machine learning, engineers are pushing the boundaries of creativity, creating a new medium and raising questions about what art can be
By Shoshanna Solomon
A Lipti T-shirt by Ruth Adler from 1987 featuring the Negev, part of an exhibit at Holon Institute of Technology through February 2023 (Courtesy Jessie Millens)
December 10, 2022, 2:51 am
Textile artist who created popular ’80s Lipti tees shows fabric of Israeli society
Ruth Adler’s work in fabrics and acrylic is on exhibit in ‘Through the Fabric’ at Holon Institute of Technology
By Jessica Steinberg
The Lanvin fashion house-designed piece in homage to Alber Elbaz, the Moroccan-born, Israeli designer who died in 2021 and is being honored with 'The Dream Factory,' a new exhibit that opened September 12, 2022 at the Design Museum Holon (Courtesy Elad Sarig)
September 13, 2022, 6:33 pm
‘Love and respect’ as Elbaz exhibit opens in Holon a year post-death
The Moroccan-born, Israel-raised designer who died in 2021 at 59 is feted by friends, family and colleagues
By Jessica Steinberg
In this file photo taken on October 03, 2016 Israeli-US fashion designer Alber Elbaz delivers a speech after he received the title of Officer in the National Order of Merit by French Culture minister at the Culture ministry in Paris on October 3, 2016. (CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP)
April 25, 2021, 3:19 pm
Alber Elbaz, top Israeli fashion icon and ex-Lanvin director, dies of COVID
France-based designer, 59, said to succumb to South African strain of coronavirus after being fully vaccinated
By Jessica Steinberg
Beyonce wearing a dress designed by Israeli designer Shahar Avnet, one of three Israelis who created looks for the singer's 'Black Is King' album (Courtesy Shahar Avnet)
August 8, 2020, 12:32 am
Beyoncé wears Israeli-designed looks in new filmed album
A fashion extravaganza in singer’s celebrated new ‘visual album’ includes clothes from Alon Livne, Shahar Avnet and newcomer Avy Amram
By Jessica Steinberg
Tsegay Berhe's "Tea Break in School," painted in the Holot Detention Center in 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 11, 2019, 6:21 am
Asylum-seeker art at desert detention center is a surprising splash of color
Exhibit opening Thursday in Tel Aviv features four artists who painted on walls of now-closed Holot facility during their incarceration
By Melanie Lidman
A wall of Mimi Ziv's journal pages, part of her show at the Holon Meirov Gallery (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
January 28, 2019, 9:47 am
For these two artists, the medium is part of the message
Mimi Ziv and Moriah Edar Plaksin share their works in Holon, one with a collection of personal illustrations, the other with handmade porcelain pieces portraying model Bar Refaeli
By Jessica Steinberg
One of Nadia Ibrahim Azzizi's designs shown at a night celebrating Arab-Israeli designers (Courtesy Nadia Ibrahim Azzizi)
March 21, 2018, 5:01 pm
Arab-Israeli designer sees fashion as a multicultural effort
Nadia Ibrahim Azizi wants to appeal to a wide audience, fitting all shapes and sizes
By Jessica Steinberg
Designs for Tel Aviv Fashion Week by Shenkar students, revealed during a runway rehearsal (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)
March 12, 2018, 2:35 pm
Tel Aviv Fashion Week kicks off with leather and hardware
Event’s sixth year brings designer Alon Livne and his models to the runway
By Jessica Steinberg and Video by Luke Tress
Prince Harry and his princess to be, Meghan Markle, leave an evening event with Markle dressed in a body suit blouse by an Israel-trained designer Courtesy Instagram)
February 22, 2018, 12:44 am
Meghan Markle wore bodysuit by Israel-trained designer, and it sold out
The perfectly fitted floppy-bowed blouse is a Tuxe creation from Tamar Daniel, now a Philly-based designer
By Jessica Steinberg
The uses of the 3D lace textiles are manifold, and Eden Saadon is exploring different ways to use her skills. (Doron Sieradzki)
November 18, 2017, 3:17 pm
Israeli design grad takes 3D pen boldly where it has never gone before
Eden Saadon uses the 3Doodler made for kids to embroider and weave intricate lacy designs, resulting in a completely new kind of fabric
By Jessica Steinberg
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