Saturday, May 25, 2013

The Witch,the Lunatic and the healer

I would love to share with you a bit of why and when...
and this is how it start...

I studied fashion and textile design at Shenkar University in Israel, so I can actually say I have my first degree in knitting…

My final project at Shenkar raised a lot of questions that I am still dealing with over and over in my design path till now…In this project I started from single thread,created 3 clothing sets, and photographed them in their atmosphere locations...Can you recognize the model?

In early middle age days, 3 ladies are on a trial, 3 ladies are telling the same story or almost the same story, each one of them in a different place in a different time.
One of them is domed as a witch and raised to the fire
The second one is announced as a mental ill and sent to the mental institute, while the third one is announced as a holistic healer and the people follow her path.
And none of these ladies ever stop to ask why…

The healer photo was taken at the small community village where I live up north, and that is the most beautiful place in Israel, just by the Mediterranean Sea.

I think that as a final project for textile design, it is also raise the question of how do we treat textile in our heart and our lives, should a textile remain the second voice back stage, or can it raise to life, taking its place at the front of the stage?





Saturday, May 18, 2013

Bright side of Life

It's been a while ago since I discover that the nice guy that live in my neighborhood, right behind my house is actually a talented photographer.
The new girl working in the kindergarten babysitting for my baby girl did seem beautiful to me right from first sight…
But nothing could really prepare me to the amazing day that we spend together at the Movie theater house in the small community village where I live...
Getting up in the morning, I packed all my jewelries, I text my photographer…"I think I have too many…"
And then just to be on the safe side…I added the box a bottle of Limoncello and Havana club Rum.
The beautiful kindergarten babysitter arrived…apparently she is 1.81 meter high, and for a small fact…she was a professional model in Italy…but she decided to leave behind the fake life and to come back to the village side…
Some days…some people you meet on the way, just make feel as luckiest as if you just found a million dollars right at your door step...
I did ask my model to play tough on the set, but I couldn't resist her beautiful smile…

With many thanks to: Hagai Nativ:Photographer,Anat Brandes: Modeling,knitwear clothing by Adva Bruner for Duende. and the sweet girl Tamar Linder who found my lost earrings on the set and returned it to my mail box…some things can only happened in community life…











Saturday, January 19, 2013

The Verdigris Collection

I would like to share with you a bit of what I am going through in the past few weeks
As I think it has a great impact on my work, my creations and therefore my jewelry collection that you get to wear
I spend most of the past few weeks next to my grandmother bad in the hospital and the Elderly intuition, Most of the time the things you get to see in such places makes you think how come you did not get blind yet.

It also made me think more about the meaning of jewel, the fact that people admire jewelry since the beginning of time, jewelry perceived as something timeless, ageless, that  can never be broken or ruin,that will always keep its value, compare to textile that can ruin in ravages of time and climate.

Which also lead me to think about the human body ,our own body as we preserve it to make sure it won't wrinkle anywhere, won't betray us, and won't change, and  in case it does forge a bit we can always use Photoshop.

What will happen if instead of making sure my jewel won't get tarnish, greenish or corrupted in any possible way, I will let it live, breath and grow its own corrosion to get its beautiful unique fingerprint like no one else got?
And this is the short version of how you got the Verdigris collection
To be continued... 

Forgotten with lost time 
Corrosion colors are lurking in the depth 
aging the metal treasure hiding in the dar


photograph by Rani Lurie and Hagai Nativ 

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

TLV Fashion Week


I had an amazing day at Tel Aviv Fashion week yesterday
My preview for A/W 2013 collection was presented with Duende Knitwear by Adva Bruner 
and I was excited like a little girl in a Candy shop.
It is the second time that Tel Aviv City is having an Israeli Fashion week, and it felt like watching a new baby learning how to walk.
With an atmosphere of a friendly, artistic neighborhood. Shows running late in oriental Jaffa time zone. I was so happy to meet my school friends, my facebook friends and watch their creation walking the Runway show.
Milan has one fashion week and so does Paris; Tel Aviv now has two… designers sitting with their families in the Audience. Establish designer who was there to support his students at the generation to come…
French buyers who told me: everyone is so smiling and talking here, this would never happened in Paris, and you know what, I guess they are right.
The intimacy and the size of our fashion week left a room for creative upcoming designers that would not be able to afford a "real" fashion week show budget. And it was a great privilege to see their work.
I was a proud to be a part of this Fashion event and I am curious to see how the next Fashion weeks will grow and develop.










Tuesday, October 23, 2012

For the Love of Textile






I Love Textile, I adore Textile, the idea of a single thread turning into a whole fabric/cloth/garment seem like a true magic to me. 
This ancient almost "unattractive" word "Textile", fill me with joy, with thoughts of a far away old ladies doing their daily textile work weaving, crocheting, creating their fantasies and making their leaving everywhere they go with bare hands and piece of yarn.

This is my piece of heaven, bringing the textile idea/ideal to the front row, 
No more a material we use to get something out of… but a stunning jewelry piece that stand and shine on its own.    

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Once upon a time

.When I was 12 years old, my grandmother taught me how to sew
"A girl with golden hands will never run out of work" she said.

High tech and computers were not an option I supposed



She grew up in Istanbul, Turkey, in the early days of World War 2, the old rich uncle hides all his fortune under the tree in the backyard, and unfortunately he also went mad during the war.

The treasure location was lost and the rich family that was used to eat with sterling silver spoons turned over night to beggars.


Frankly grandmother did not care much; the rich uncle was miser anyway and she did not get much of the sterling silver food before or after the war
She was traveling around with her sewing machine up and down the stairs fixing rich people clothing.
When she arrived to Israel she did exactly the same thing only here and without the stairs part.

Teaching sawing, making garments, teaching synthetic fur teddy bears making. Filling the house with blue fur pieces, for a clean and healthy air.

And there I was, pushing the teddy bears nose to fit in place. making fabric elastic band and learning to read the endless map of green and red stripes in the Burda fashion magazine of the happy 80's.

If I wanted a new dress, I took my grandmother to see the dress in the store window; from there we took the bus to the fabric district in Tel Aviv, getting enough fabric in 2 colors to make 2 dresses;
one as I wanted (black, blue or grey) and 1 in as she wanted in Red.

Every time that I visit grandma now she always asks "what about the mannequin?" "Do you use the mannequin?"

For the matter of fact I do



Love you grandma




Friday, May 27, 2011

Fashion Trend Politics



תחזיות האופנה מושפעות ממה שקורה בגלובליזציה העולמית שלנו,
בתקופה של מלחמות נראה תחזיות המבשרות על התכנסות וביתיות וחזרה לחיק המשפחה
בתקופות של מודעות חברתית או אסונות טבע התחממות גלובלית וכן הלאה יפרוץ ביתר שאת חינו של המחזור והאקו שיק
חדירת האינטרנט לכל ממקום בחיינו הביאה את טרנד האקלקטיות האוסף מכל הבא ליד
בתקופות של מחסור נראה תחזיות של פחות זה יותר ושמירה על הקיים,האופנה ככללותה ריקנית עליזה ומלאת חיים ככל שתיראה לעיני חוץ הינה מושפעת לחלוטין מכל הסובב אותנו בכפר הגלובלי. 

Fashion forecasts are affected by what happens in the globalization of our world,
In times of war it seems to predict announcing convergence back to the bosom of family and home
During periods of social awareness or natural disasters such as global warming the eco chic and recycling trends rise up to our life and become our way of living.
Internet penetration to all forms of our lives has brought the eclectic traditions trend to our live.

And In times of shortage seems those predictions like less is more and maintaining the existing is getting stronger.
Empty and shallow as it pretend to be, merry and lively as it looks from the outside 
Fashion is completely influenced by all that happens around 
us in the global village


ולראייה תחזיות 2012 מדווחות על חומרים שונים ומגוונים להכנת תכשיטי אופנה
אנחנו הצרכנים נראה את זה במגוון אוצרות ותכשיטים אלטרנטיביים בחנויות רובנו לא יקשר את העובדה כי על רקע העלייה במחירי המזון,נפט כותנה ושאר משאבי העולם השונים נרשמה גם עלייה גדולה במחירי הזהב
בנוסף לזאת התערערות הדולר גרמה לאנשים לשוב להשקיע במטבע הראשוני בעולם הלא הם מטילי הזהב
עובדה שהקפיצה את מחירי הזהב  מחיר אונקיית הזהב עלה ב-200 דולר ב-3 חודשים
מחירי הזהב גוררים אחריהם את מחירי הכסף שאף הם האמירו עד מאוד.
וכך צצו במחוזותינו תכשיטי נייר וקרטון נפלאים,צמידי עץ משובצים אבנים יקרות,תכשיטי בדים חוטים וחבלים שעד כה ראינו רק בתליית וילונות.
שפע החומרים אינו בא על חשבון איכות תחכום ועיצוב כיון שגם ליצור תכשיטים מרגשים מחומרים אלטרנטיביים דורש מיומנות רבה ורמת גימור מהוקצעת
לדוגמה צמידי העץ הנפלאים שנתקלתי בהם בשיטוטי באטסי שנעשו בידי סלסט למברט אמנית דפוס ב-20 השנה האחרונות וצורפת מזה כ-5 שנים היוצרת את צמידי העץ שלה על ידי כיפוף פורנירים ונירוסטה,טכניקה אותה גילתה כאשר השתמשה בפורניר כמצע לעבודות הדפוס אותן יצרה
והנה גם קישור לחנות האטסי שלה


As a Witness, Predictions for 2011-2012 report of variety of materials for making fashion jewelry
we consumers see it in a variety of alternative jewelry treasures,
Most of us do not associate the fact that in light of higher food prices, oil, cotton and other various world resources also recorded a big rise in gold prices
Additionally weakening dollar has caused people to invest in non-primary currency such as gold bars.
The fact is that the jump in gold prices rose by $ 200 in 3 months

the rise of the gold prices brought a rise in silver sterling jewelry as well, as both metal are connected in the stock market.
In the Accessories forecast in returned appeared wonderful paper and cardboard jewelry, wooden bangles studded with precious stones, jewelry made of fabrics yarns and ropes that until now only seen by hanging curtains and textile bedding.
the Material wealth does not come at the expense of sophistication and design quality since that in order to create a fine jewelry from exciting alternative materials requires great skill and polished finish level
For example this beautiful wood bracelet that I came across during my traveling through Etsy shops By Celeste Lambert



she is a jewelry designer, living and working in Wellesley, Massachusetts (USA). Who earned a degree in Studio Art from Mount Holyoke College and have been working as a jeweler for the past five years and as a printmaker for nearly twenty years. As you can see in her web site www.celestelambert.com,
That features both of her mediums of work.  Interestingly, Celeste says that
"it was through printmaking that I initially recognized the opportunity in designing jewelry. I had collected some beautifully figured wood veneer with the intent of using it for a substrate for a printed image. I realized that the naturally occurring designs within the wood were so evocative that I shifted my thinking towards ways in which to showcase them. Today, my diverse lines of handcrafted bracelets are created through a process of steam-bending and layering wood veneer. As the jewelry collection has evolved, I have added stainless steel accents to complement the complexity and organic richness of the wood.  I believe that wood jewellery is becoming incredibly popular, not only because of the beauty of natural materials, but because society as a whole is becoming committed to eco-friendly fashion. I am inspired by early American Shaker design, as well as modern architecture, both of which help drive my design process."
and here's a link to here Etsy Shop