Fashion: Tel Aviv, Israel: Haute Couture mixes Palestine and Israel cultural motifs

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NYT Magazine (November29,2k11)
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......   On Sunday night [Dec11], the fashion collective Three as Four opened its highly anticipated exhibition “Insalaam Inshalom” at the Beit Ha’Ir Center for Urban Culture in Tel Aviv, bringing to fruition a project over two years in the making. Covering the walls of the four-story building in fabric printed with their spring collection’s central motifs, which are made of a mix of Muslim and Jewish symbols, the designers Gabi Asfour, Adi Gil and Ange Donhauser invited 10 artists to show works that relate to the project’s central notion: that Judaism and Islam can live side by side. “We’ve accumulated the energy of artists and performers who are like-minded,” Asfour said. “We tried to balance things from all sides, though it’s always difficult.”

“Insalaam Inshalom” runs through March 10 at the Beit Ha’Ir Center for Urban Culture, Bialik Street 27, 011-972-0-3-724-0311; beithair.org.