Category archives: Fashion & Style

Stunning Fashion made of Real Flowers

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[caption id="attachment_133805" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Zita Elze[/caption] Flowers, as beautiful as they are, are also considered a symbol of transience and mortality. After all, their beauty doesn’t last forever. Dutch painter Jan Davidsz de Heem, one of the most famous still life painters of the Baroque, captured their grace on canvas to...

Sacai - Extravagant floral patterns

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When it comes to fashion, it is the constant revival of trends and looks that runs through the seasons and collections. But a big part that makes the fashion designers such brilliant creators is the talent to merge many influences for their own and new look. The Japanese label Sacai...

Top Flower Power Outfits on Instagram

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The flower power fashion trend has officially reached the closets of all fashion enthusiasts and style-conscious gardeners in the major cities of the world. Whether as a floral dress, flowery Marlene trousers or magnificent embroidery on pockets, the flower power movement continues its triumph and seizes the Instagram. Here are three of...

Top Fashion Trend 2016: Floral Kimono Jackets

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[caption id="attachment_133848" align="aligncenter" width="800"] French Connection Cardigan auf Asos[/caption] Kimonos - there has been hardly any other fashion trend that struck so much in recent years like the Japanese-inspired kimono cardigan. The Far Eastern embossed garment has become an indispensable fashion staple for today’s style-conscious woman, which certainly is not surprising....

Dolce & Gabbana - La Dolce Vita

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La Dolce Vita - the Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana succeeded to become THE label for extra-feminine Italian-inspired fashion. Each of the collections seems to celebrate femininity and guarantees everything we’ve always loved about Italian fashion. 50s-inspired silhouettes create the classic retro touch that is basis of the line. At...

Trend 2016: Wearing Flowers in Your Hair

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When Frida Kahlo graced one of the Vogue’s legendary covers of in 1937, the outstanding Mexican artist made it to inspire millions of fashion enthusiasts, artists and fans of art. The flowers she liked to add into her updo became her trademark, prompting generations that followed to do the same. Whether...

Clover Canyon - Experimental and Playful

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Floral patterns are an integral part of the spring and summer fashion. Eventually, spring is the season which makes the whole world awaken from its hibernation and the flowers blooming anew. This is what inspired Los Angeles-based label Clover Canyon for its spring collection, which is reflected in a usual...

Grace Ciao - Fashion Illustrations made of Re...

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"Flowers are the smile of earth." This is one of the most famous aphorisms of American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, which almost everyone will agree with. Every year, we patiently wait for the new first rays of spring, ending the dull days of winter and eliciting the loveliest flowers out...

Fashion photographer Goran Ljubuncic - master...

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He discovered his passion for photography through the lens of the 30-year-old camera from his father when he was asked to create images of his home as part of a school project. Today, Goran Ljubuncic is a leading photographer in the Israeli fashion scene and has also established himself in...

MORF - A garment worn in 24 different ways

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The Morf shirt hits like a bomb. It is a t-shirt you can wear in 24 different ways! It is also the most versatile piece of clothing in the world and brought the label of Morf a lot fame and recognition. The Jewish designer, Tamara Salem, announced her multifunctional technology...

Yigal Azrouel - Cool, elegant und feminine

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Yigal Azrouel’s fashion is in some way an accurate image of its wearer. Cool, feminine and elegant - his designs are exactly the right amount of cultivated elegance to be worn at one occasion or another, even though they look effortlessly chic thanks to their minimalistic lines and modern cuts....

Stav Strashko - Israeli Transgender Model

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Graceful, girlish and indescribably graceful - model Stav Strashko enchants us like a modern fairy with his penetratingly seductive look and his full lips. That's right, you didn’t misread. Diesel’s new face is a man. The Israeli model is also touted as the next Andreja Pejic. Andreja Pejic made headlines...

Alon Livné: Celebrities’ Favorite Designer

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He is the favorite designer of the stars. Beyonce and Lady Gaga already commissioned him to customize clothes for their world tours to perform their overwhelmingly elaborate, glamorous shows in front of thousands of people. Thus, his garments shine with overpowering brilliance, which is like the ultimate embodiment of femininity...

Feminine Vintage Chic - Naama Bezalel

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You don’t need to ask an expert to notice the retro-like aesthetics in Naama Bezalel’s designs. A visit to her amazingly playful-like website resembles a journey back to the 50s. Also, her drafts reveal her love for vintage styles. However, her designs don’t appear like leftover pieces of the rock...

Bar Rafaeli - Angel or Supermodel?

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The blonde beauty floats on the catwalk of Victoria Secret like a goddess, as if she would dictate over the rest of the angels with her outstanding grace. We all know that hundreds of thousands of men and women burst into tears when the Israeli export hit with the hot,...

Is Israel suffering from Anorexia?

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When Israeli model Hila Elmaliach died of anorexia and shocked the world in 2007, another 6 more years had passed until the Israeli government, the Knesset, finally responded to a devastating problem in Israeli society. In 2013, they finally imposed a ban on skinny models that, sadly, had been in...

Simple and Chic - Ronen Chen

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Clean lines and an almost geometric shape - the designs of Ronen Chen speak volumes. The aesthetics of the Israeli designer revolves only around a very modern and unconcerned manicured look. He is no friend of excessive unnecessary details and limits himself to simple shapes and super fine accents. What...

Unorthodox Orthodox Fashion!

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[caption id="attachment_133056" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Uncommon Creatures[/caption] Sometimes, the fashion world is simply unpredictable. Who would have imagined that the traditional clothing of the Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Jewry would be considered a great inspiration for numerous designers in the modern world? The followers of this Jewish movement would have probably been the...

3 Israeli Models on their way to Fashion Olym...

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[caption id="attachment_133024" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Sofia Mechetner, Bild: ©Dior[/caption] With their blonde hair, blue eyes and porcelain skin, they turn our heads. They seduce us with brunette mane and green eyes or get us on the knees with their dark, sun-kissed skin, full lips and the African look. Israeli models are as...

Convenient Fashion - Kedem Sasson

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Kedem Sasson’s design seem to be something between extravagant and traditional. With his unique design language and exciting patterns he shows that you can and should live your fashionable taste well beyond size zero. It all started with the fact that the wife of the Israeli designer couldn’t see enough...

Noa Raviv to herald the Future of Fashion wit...

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A digital grid landscape covers the gowns of Noa Raviv, heralding a new era in the fashion world with its innovative mindset. With the help of a 3D printer, the Tel Aviv-based designer created fascinating constructions which were mounted to the female petite body in a geometric, curved style and...

The Best Fashion Blogs from Israel

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[caption id="attachment_132956" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Moody Roza[/caption] Israel is undoubtedly one of the most unique countries in the world. When the representative democracy of Israel was proclaimed in 1948, the rest of the world had long known that the land of milk and honey was a pillar of the human history. It...

Blue like the Sea - Dorin Frankfurt

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Solid ice blue and bright pure white - the spring and summer line of Israeli designer Dorin Frankfurt clearly plays with the typical summer motifs of the beach and sea. However, she doesn’t follow the obvious maritime look, but rather dedicates herself to the theme in her very own way....

Classical and Ladylike - Louise Kennedy

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Louise Kennedy heralds the summer season in a stylish way. The Irish designer has been enjoying considerable international success with her eponymous label and is primarily known for her thoroughly elegant collections. The clients of Louise Kennedy stand out particularly with their taste, as they truly have a sense of...

The Irish Aran Sweater : An Indispensable Fas...

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[caption id="attachment_132643" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Blarney[/caption] Life on the Aran Islands at the west coast of Ireland was hard and tedious. The weather was rough like the sea which separated the islands from the mainland. In order to brave the lashing pitiless wind, which often turns the raindrops into wet missiles during...

Kerry Fashion Awards 2016 – Ireland’s mos...

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[caption id="attachment_132551" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Mulholland Jewellery[/caption] Umit Kutluk, Natalie B Coleman, Emma Manley, Helen Steele, Una Burke, Don O'Neill, Laura Jayne Halton, Delphine Grandjouan, Colin Horgan, Niamh O'Neill, Sinead Doyle - these are the names of world-renowned Irish fashion designers who have one thing in common: They are all participants and...