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When the keffiyeh turned couture

One Israeli designer brings the day's headlines onto the runway

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
 22 October 2015, 5:55 pm
Yaron Minkowski's models draped in keffiyehs as a symbol of Fashion Week coexistence (Courtesy Idocvm and Mark Oren/TLV Fashion Mall)

The keffiyeh — the Arab headdress meant to provide protection from sun and sand which became a symbol of Palestinian nationalism — was draped over Israeli models during one show of Tel Aviv Fashion Week.

Designer Yaron Minkowski said he imported the keffiyehs from Hebron, and turned the black-and-white and red-and-white keffiyehs into a symbol of coexistence.

The scarves were made into six day- and evening-wear dresses for his collection.

Meanwhile, Minkowski’s 14-year-old daughter, Ori Minkowski, had her own capsule collection within her father’s, featuring lots of pink hearts and leggings for the tween-teen crowd.

The Minkowskis, father and daughter, bring their models together for some Arab-Jewish coexistence (Courtesy Ori Minkowski)

But she also included an Israeli flag bathing suit, perhaps in a nod to the times.

Typical father-daughter clash? Didn’t look like it.

 

 

 

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