"Israel Fashion Art 1948-2008" in Today's "Yedioth Ahronoth"

Photos from the album book "Israel Fashion Art" by Nurit Bat-Yaar appearing in a capsule exhibit on the net.
On the right Yaron Minkowski's design. Photo by Eldad Maestro. On the left: a Dani Bar-Shai patchwork skirt. Photo by Dana Menussi, Styling: Nurit Bat-Yaar.

Hi, in my Nov. 21, 2010 post I reported about the capsule exhibit of photos from "Israel Fashion Art 1948-2008" which was uploaded by the author and sociologist Prof. Oz Almog onto his and his wife's , Dr. Tamar Almog's, website "People Israel" http://www.peopleil.org/

Today I'm happy to share with you an item about the exhibit which was published by Shelly Gross, "Zmanim Modernim"'s fashion editor in today's "Yedioth Ahronoth".
The item's title is "What is Israeli?" and the subtitle is: Exceptional Photos of Local Fashion were uploaded to the Internet". Among other things Shelly mentions the fact that the exhibit includes the dress singing star Orna Dats wore to her Eurovision performance after seeing it on the "Zmanim Modernim"'s cover.

The dress which was designed by Yaron Minkowski and won him an international prize in a students' competition is made of embroidered Bucharian table cloths which he had found in Jafa's Flea market.

"Israel Fashion Art 1948-2008" TV Ch 2 Interview March 1, 2010

Hi, Today I would like to share with you the first TV interview about the "ISRAEL FASHION ART 1948-2008"album-book.

"שיכרון עיצובים - אמנות האופנה בישראל"

It was screened on TV Channel 2's morning show hosted by TV star Moshe Datz on March 1, 2010,

shortly after the book came out. Datz was very enthusiastic introducing the book as an amazing encyclopedia. Although the interview began with a discussion about Maskit, the first uniquely Israeli fashion house, the first pictures displayed in the program were of my early modeling days, in an orange grove in preparation for a popular orange-picking postcard, modeling Elanit Knits outfit, and a calendar for a color manufacturing company.

Subsequently, some of the book's photos were displayed including a Fini Leitersdorf for Maskit gown inspired by a Yohanan Simon painting, a Vitzo-Haifa creation, a Leah Gottlieb for Gottex beachwear set, a Rozi Ben-Yosef kefeya inspired design, and a Yaron Minkowski Eurovision dress made out of Bucharian embroidered tablecloth, which Orna Datz performed in. Yoav Meir was sitting beside me in the studio during the interview. He was a Project Runway participant who now has his own TV program "Urban Fashion."