THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Best wishes for a
happy, healthy
New Year
Israeli leathers
are in fashion
BY GREER FAY CASHMAN
Tel Aviv — This year's leather
fashion collections from Israel are
notable for their extraordinary
individualism. Each collection
bears the distinct mark of its de-
signer, who has obviously created
and not copied.
Crafting of leather has not
changed much over the centuries.
Unlike the textile industry, which
is being taken over by com-
puterization, production tech-
niques in leather are still depen-
dent on human skills.
Modern technology, however,
has succeeded in making leather
more pliant, more colorful and
more luxurious both to the eye
and to the touch, giving suede and
softness and sheen of velvet and
imbuing nappa and a silky sur-
face. Stiff, conventionally styled
leather which crackled with every
movement, is a thing of the past.
Designers in Israel are so
enamored with the flexibility of
leather that they are incorporat-
ing it in knitted and woven ap-
parel. Tamara Yovel, one of Is-
rael's most avant-garde de-
signers, effectively uses nappa to-
gether with velvet and lace in
elaborately contrived trimmings
on tweeds and dramatic knitwear.
"I like to hint at the folkloristic in
my creations without pinpointing
the exact influence," she explains.
Oded Gera, resident designer at
Jerusalem-based Scharf's Furs,
developed a strong feel for leather
during the two seasons for which
he was commissioned to design
collections for the famous Israeli
leather house, Beged Or. His crea-
tions for Scharf's include many
layered jackets with fur vests over
leather, leather over fur or
leather trimmed with fur. Among
the best buys in this collection is a
fur-vested leather battle-dress
jacket with under-seam zip-off de-
tachable and reversible sleeves
which are leathr on one side and
fur on the other. The total pos-
sibilities in this design offer seven
garments for the price of one.
Reversibles are also big sellers.
Scharf's Furs export and local
market sales have soared since
they began producing swakara
lamb reversible coats and jackets
in which the underside of the
curly fur has a suede -surface.
Seams are geometically banded
by strips of leather or satin result-
ing in a sporty suede coat on one
side and an elegant fur on the
other. Scharf's prices these coats
from $1,000 to $1,500; tourists
enjoy a 25% reduction as they do
on all leather and fur purchases
which are exported.
Meanwhile, defying the restric-
tions of conservatism with a rich,
exotic group of swirling cannon
gray coats and capes, emblazoned
with peacock's eyes and feathers
and a three-dimensional vag-
abond look with suede darns over
uneven patches is the Tadmor col-
lection. The bright new sparks in
the collection have been lit by two
young designers, Anat Hefetz and
Tali Gavish, both graduates of Is-
rael's Shenkar College of Fashion
and Textile Design.
Through the versatile efforts of
such designers as Yovel, Gera,
Hefetz and Gavish, more Israelis
than ever before will be wearing
leather this fall.
FERN & HERB BAKER &
FAMILY
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