TLV Fashion Week Web Publicity

The Tel-Aviv Fashion Week received so much publicity we thought we may skip posting about it…But such a historical event cannot be and should not be overlooked. The international fashion week held in Tel-Aviv after 30 years is an accomplishment worthy of celebration! So here is a list of just some of the articles written about the event, read more about it: 

Exposing Tel Aviv Fashion Week – Israelity
On the front row at the inaugural Tel Aviv Fashion Week – Fashion Telagraph 
Italians impressed by Tel Aviv Fashion Week - Jerusalem Post
Tel Aviv Holds Israel’s First Fashion Week in Over 30 Years (PHOTOS) – Ibtimes
Israeli designers attract world attention – Ijn
Maybelline New York sponsors Tel Aviv Fashion Week – The Examiner
Israel Fashion Week hits the runway – Haaretz
Roberto Cavalli Shows Spring 2012 Collection At Tel Aviv Fashion ... - Huffington Post
Designer Cavalli launches Israel's first fashion week in over 30 years - Daily Mail
Roberta Cavalli Showcases Spring 2012 Collection at Tel Aviv ... - Bloginity

Exploring textiles, Inventing textures

It was a pleasure and a privilege meeting Tamar Branitzky, a talented eccentric Textile Designer working and creating in her studio in Tel-Aviv. A Shenker graduate of Design Engineering, Tamar explores and invents textile design techniques involving printing, hand painting, embroidery, sawing, burning and collage making sometimes all on one piece made up of layers of different types of materials. Tamar loves to combine handmade practices with industrial techniques, developing unique fabrics and textiles while offering distinctive and tailored designs to artists in various fields. Like works of art, her pieces are sold in a limited edition, until the artist creates anew!
Tamar is a promising rising star, collaborating with fashion professionals, interior designers, industrial designers and artists from all over the world, developing and creating new and innovative textiles never seen before in the market. Respectfully, her work was exhibited in the "Salone De Mobile" in Milan, April 2011 and in "Promise Design" - "Designer Days" in Paris, June 2011.


We wish Tamar lots of luck and progress to come!
Tamar's "Stained Journey" scarf collection can be purchased on the DZion website.

Sotheby celebrates Israeli design

"There's outstanding creativity and talent in Israel- the work is very fresh, original and independent " explains  Janice Blackburn, co-coordinator and curator of Sotheby's  design selling exhibitions which took place in London last May, in Tel-Aviv this Tuesday at the opening of the Tel-Aviv Museum of Arts new wing, and excitingly soon in December  in New York!

Senior vice president at Sotheby's New York, Sonya Bekkerman realized how much home-grown talent Israel has, and so visits the country around five times a year to find new design pieces. Sonya said, "We realized there’s extraordinary talent here, it’s fresh, it’s innovative, it’s really exceptional and there isn’t a platform for it. We do sell some Israeli art and Judaica in New York but we decided to give both emerging and established talent a platform at Sotheby’s.”

The Financial Times article by Nicole Swengley, quotes Mel Byars, a design historian, when he said  "Israeli design is the world's best kept secret".  Finally Sotheby gives the world the chance to discover.

Tel-Aviv Museum of Art New Wing- Opening Event

Thank you to Shiri Batsry for her personal photographs

Culturally Designed

Michael Tsinzovsky is an Israeli industrial designer who dares to challenge sensitive and complex issues like politics, culture and ethnicity through his design and technique. For example, The Little Night Lamp was created from a bomb shelter light switch as a gesture to the citizens of Sderot, Israel who have been living under siege for years. Other examples, are less provocative, however still ignite question and thought into how we define and express Israeli culture and design.

For his graduation thesis at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, in Jerusalem, Michael Tsinzovsky plays with local icons, crafts and materials, attempting to catch the essence of Israeli design. Michael draws on the traditional German wood and carpentry techniques immigrants brought to Israel after World War II, acknowledges and uses influences from Islamic art, patterns and ornaments, while wisely utilizing contemporary production methods developed in the Israeli high-tech manufacturing industry. These mixed styles intertwined create a variety of distinctive furniture prototypes in which East meets West and old meets new, successfully capturing the soul of Israeli design.

 

Campana brothers note Israeli design

We know this post is not about an Israeli design/event or designer achievement specifically, but we found it very interesting the reference to Israeli design the Brazilian Campana brothers made in an interview they had with one of the most popular financial newspapers in Israel today, the Calcalist.


Humberto Campana said he connects with Israeli design as it is similar to where he comes from."Israeli design tells the story of its origin, Israeli designers are aware of the tension and uncertainty of reality and the things around them." Referencing his own country's security concern too, Campana explains that the idea of all things being temporary, changing from moment to moment is something that is engraved in their consciousness too. As such, when Humberto sees Israeli design, he can relate.


Respect.