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“TRUE INNOCENCE”

Stella Lucia by Camilla Åkrans for Vogue Japan, December 2015

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Weekend Hashtag Project: #WHPmakebelieve

Weekend Hashtag Project is a series featuring designated themes and hashtags chosen by Instagram’s Community Team. For a chance to be featured on the Instagram blog, follow @instagram and look for a post announcing the weekend’s project every Friday.

This weekend’s prompt was #WHPmakebelieve, which asked participants to explore their imagination and make photos that capture out-of-this-world moments in everyday life. Every Monday we feature some of our favorite submissions from the project, but be sure to check out the rest here.

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Extreme Knitting with @jacquifink

For more extreme knitting, follow @jacquifink on Instagram.

Using custom-built, industrial-sized knitting needles, Jacqui Fink (@jacquifink) uses her whole body to knit extreme-scale textiles and art installations at her home in Sydney. “It’s one part bonkers, two parts beautiful and three parts the best therapy there is,” she says. Jacqui, whose mother taught her to knit as a child, returned to the craft after a career in law and being bolstered by a moment of inspiration. “I had a vision, which transformed my life and opened the door to extreme knitting. While I was asleep, a big, loud booming voice said to me, ‘You have to knit, and it needs to be big.’ The command was as terrifying as it was profound,” she says. “There was no way I wasn’t going to listen to it.”

Jacqui uses high-grade merino roving, yarn and wools sourced from Australia and New Zealand. Effectively handling delicate merino wool on a large scale took her over two years of research and experimentation. She sits on an armless chair to support the needles — over three and a half feet (110 centimeters) long, made of PVC plumber’s pipe with hand-turned timber ends — and the weight of the wool, which can be 11 pounds (5 kilograms) for an average throw. “The terrific thing about extreme knitting is that you get rewarded very quickly for all your hard work. You can knit yourself a scarf in an hour, a throw in four and king-size blanket in six,” she says.

Launching her own business, Little Dandelion, Jacqui aims to create pieces that will last a lifetime, not one season, and is constantly driven by her passion for merino wool over and above the technical skills. “You need to let go of all of your preconceived notions about what it is to knit in order to be able to really enjoy it,” she advises.

Jacqui adds that she is also driven by knitting’s therapeutic qualities: “It is a very ritualistic process involving a beautiful rhythm between the heart, hand and eye. Once you become adept at the various techniques, you really don’t have to think about what you are doing and so your mind is set free to wander.”

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Gindi TLV fashion week

‘The world belongs to the young’ cliche is surprisingly true, as the young students of Shankar proved it again through piles of originality. The future generation of Israeli fashion was steamy hot, but not nearly as hot as the Fashion Mall in which all shows were held, dark, moist and warm (You ain't seen nothing yet, until you've seen fashion journalists, designers and supermodels fighting for a portable air conditioner)

Our little Frankie Goes to Hollywood - or to be more accurate - our Divalicious Con artist Nona Chalant was a guest star to all the major shows, and we will soon spread out a nice gallery of pics for you from all the shows you've missed, and all the shows you'll be glad you've missed! See you SOON

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Hugh Laughton-Scott & Gaby Sahhar by Alessio Bolzoni | Office Magazine

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Weekend Hashtag Project: #WHPartifacts

Weekend Hashtag Project is a series featuring designated themes and hashtags chosen by Instagram’s Community Team. For a chance to be featured on the Instagram blog, follow @instagram and look for a post announcing the weekend’s project every Friday.

This weekend’s prompt was #WHPartifacts, which asked participants to tell stories through photographs of personal artifacts that hold great meaning to them. Every Monday we feature some of our favorite submissions from the project, but be sure to check out the rest here.

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Petrina Hicks

Serpentina I/II

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 2015

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Shenkar Graduates Fashion Show 2015

After four long years of study at the Department of Fashion Design in Shenkar, 35 students were showing 34 brilliant collections, some using new technology in fashion design, and others using new color palettes, refreshing prints, and especially manipulated textile and innovative cuts.

From models in masks, exaggerated coats, and plenty of religious references, all the students strive to be unique and end up as the designers of the future. Our team was there to give you a sneak peek from the likes of Nina Lachman, Avishay Berge, Dana Cohen, Michali Wolma, Maayan Milles and our personal favorite, Shai Tako! 

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Images: Rafi Daloya

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Getting ready for a Summer wedding?

Getting ready for a summer wedding? Polgat offers the perfect evening suit for the Israeli groom. The collection offers a wide range of patterns and materials, at the highest finishing levels and tailoring reserved for international premium brands. 

Choosing a well-made wedding suit requires thought and decisiveness, and Polgat's suits collection allows you to choose the right cut with a particularly impressive choice of colors and quality fabrics.

Oficial web: Polgat

Ph: Alon Adar

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SKETCH > 30% off Summer 2015 collection

Menswear brand SKETCH is having its Summer sale, for up to 30% off on selected items. Be sure to send us a Thank you note after purchasing some of his incredibly designed clothes. 

Ph: Tom Marshak

HATACHANA: 2 Koifmann St. Tel Aviv – Jaffa

BAZEL: 2 Bazel St. Tel Aviv

SHARONIM MALL: 2 Harakon St. Hod Ha-Sharon

SHARONA: 13 Aranya Osvaldo st. Building 128

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Up to 30% Off  > PULL&BEAR Israel Summer Sale.

PULL&BEAR Israel summer sale has kicked off in style. With womens and mens clothes all reduced by up to 30% starting tomorrow. Visit your nearest of the 24 chains for more details about what items are included, and up to what price.

Online: PULL&BEAR

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AN IRRESISTIBLE COLLECTION OF HAND-PRINTED PILLOWS

*Written by Caroline Williamson

Sunny Todd Prints is a brand-new British label that designs eye-catchingly irresistible patterns for various uses. They just launched a collection of hand printed pillows featuring six of their best designs, each available in two electric color combinations.

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Rodolpho Parigi solo exhibition at Galeria Nara Roesler

5/22/2015- 7/25/2015

Colored pencil on cotton paper, 2015

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Handmade Leather Bags and Accessories - OMTURA by Anton Edelshtein.

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British singer Foxes is the latest celeb to collaborate with H&M

The British singer-songwriter and Grammy Award winner, Foxes, has been announced as the face of a new H&M Divided (Divided is H&M’s Junior line) Fall 2015 campaign launching this July.

Foxes is wearing a mix of grunge inspired looks with a bohemian style (Think slogan tees, pretty dresses, bomber jackets, flared jeans and jazzy printed shorts) and showcases the label's mix-it-up separates.

The collection will launch in H&M stores worldwide and online at hm.com from mid July. (Ph: Hans Moritz)

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MADAME CARVEN PASSES AWAY AT 105

The woman who founded the house of Carven (a creator of ‘Contemporary’ fashion) and shaped French fashion in the postwar years, died in Paris on Monday at age 105. The name 'Carven' was created by combining the first half of the designer's name, Carmen, with the surname of her aunt Josy Boyriven, who first introduced her to the world of couture.

CARVEN SS 2015 collection is available in Israel at FACTORY 54

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WORLD OF DIESEL

The moment it was announced that Diesel founder Renzo Rosso hired Nicola Formichetti (the stylist who helped transform Lady Gaga) as his new artistic director, we knew something big and exciting will be coming our way. "I changed the design studio completely; we hired new designers, and I feel like finally after two years, I have a solid group of people in the design area."

So when both Renzo Rosso and Nicola Formichetti finally decided to pay us a visit and come to celebrate 20 years for DIESEL in Israel, there was, to put it mildly, an insane amount of people who didn’t want to miss on the opportunity to come and say Hello!

Our team was there, to welcome these two distinguished guests, and to present them with a designed gift made especially for this exclusive event, by our team member Mark Goldenberg (Winner of "International Talent Support") and the Über talented Ido Wolfman, who created a symbolic handmade piece made of denim and leather, inspired by the Jewish ritual of the laying of phylacteries.