Fashion show producers Cindy Kahn
and Linda Dremer started the show.

LYNNE MEREDITH COHN

Special to The Jewish News

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GLENN TRIEST

Photographer

I

f Armani made kippot, you
would have seen them at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek on
Sunday, Sept. 13.
An excited buzz spread through the
crowd gathered in the Rabbi Morris
Adler social hall. As the lights
dimmed, a spotlight illuminated a
makeshift modeling runway, and psy-
chedelic, Middle Eastern and Klezmer
tunes pumped from loudspeakers.
Moms and dads, bubbies and zay-
des, and lots of little kids in small-size
fashions shifted in their seats as they
awaited the beginning of the State of
Israel Bonds Generations Fashion
Show, celebrating the 50th anniversary
of the State of Israel. .
Twenty combinations of grand-

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mothers, mothers and children
strolled down the runway in fashions
representing current Israeli styles and
those of "yesteryear" when Israel
became a state. The clothes came from
Linda Dresner's Birmingham-based
haute couture collection and Cindy
Kahn's Kiddlywinks, an upscale chil-
dren's clothing boutique also in
Birmingham.
The event was cute and incredibly
chic as dazzling mothers cruised the
catwalk holding fashionably-clad
babies or toting pudgy-legged toddlers
and confident pre-teens. The kids
raced down the runway, as the adults
strutted and swayed.
Kids waved to the audience and the
cameras flashed and snapped in rapid

Smiling families modeled
Israeli styles at a pre- holiday
salute to Israel's 50th.

succession. Little Marlee Rich ended
her stint with a curtsy, while Bryan
Brown gazed up at his fashionable
mother with a grin that said, "What
are we doing, Ma?"
Siblings Sophie and Sam Sklar
wore matching black patterned velvet
— she in a tiny dress and he in a
handsome vest — and Cloe Brown
hid behind her mother's shawl.
Harry Singer hammed it up for the
cameras and the crowd; an elated
Annabel Singer could not stop smil-
ing.
The idea for this event was a couple
years in the making, said Linda
Hayman, chair of Israel Bonds
Women's Division. The models —
who ranged in age from 90 years to 9

months — came from families who
were "instrumental" in the creation of
the State of Israel, said Sandy Dembs,
co-chair of the event with Andrea
Hurwitz and Lisa Rotter. The pint- .
sized models were the offspring of
Detroiters who fought for Israel's
independence and who survived the
Holocaust.
Channel 2 anchor Sherry Margolis
served as commentator for the fashion
show, which was folloved by a festival
of child-oriented boutiques, clowns
and a casual buffet dinner topped off
by a sundae bar. "You are going to
kvell," Margolis told the audience,
before walking down the runway with
her three daughters, Jordan, Alexandra
and Eden Zaslow.

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