There are some great examples:Įach of the fourteen layers in an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), otherwise known as a space-suits has a particular function: from a water cooling layer to regulate body temperature to one that regulates air pressure. It is not enough to simply be clothed, but the specifications and characteristics of certain garments enable us to carry out precise functions. ‘And you shall instruct all who are skillful, whom I have endowed with the gift of skill, to make Aaron’s vestments, for consecrating him to serve Me as priest ’. It seems that the high priest draws influence from the garments specially made for him: Naked people have little or no influence on society.’ Why so much attention to the details of the high priest’s garments? In fact, the instructions take up about forty verses. God is incredibly specific in detailing the exact fabric, the color, the size, and the method for constructing the eight pieces. The Torah portion of Tezaveh presents God’s own debut as a designer, with a capsule collection specially designed for the kohen gadol, the high priest. And the global apparel market is valued at 3 trillion dollars, and accounts for 2 percent of the world’s GDP. So is it relevant to normal people, who are neither in the business, nor celebrities invited to grace the front row?īut before you are tempted to dismiss it as just shmattes, it is worth bearing in mind that the LFW alone generates between £40 -100 million in sales.

If you follow fashion, or have seen photos of what is presented on the catwalks you know that the new fashion collection that are presented are very creative but not really practical or even wearable for most of us.

London Fashion Week (LFW) takes place twice a year – in February and September, one of the big four international fashion trade events together with Paris, Milan, New York – where designers showcase their new creations to an audience of 5000 buyers and press. So what are we to make of the confluence of Fashion Week in New York over the last few days and in London over the Shabbat in which we read the sedra of Tezaveh ? He suggested that every day we ought to find inspiration from a segment of the current Torah reading. ‘ Living with the times’, is a motto of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe zt”l that resonates with me.

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