“The excess and the move towards the conceptual, which was carried out in most cases, typically posed interesting questions about the very role of fashion in the current era and the essence of clothes. Many graduates did not refer to the garment as an outfit intended for the human body, but as a design function of expression and boundary exploration. The clothes were shifted aside from the body, exceeded its boundaries, opened peepholes in themselves and unveiled what lay beneath”

“One of the best projects presented last night belonged to Tama Fox and Nitzan Zefler, who tried to imagine, from the current climate horror, a utopian aesthetic whose existence is doubtful. They used excess as a conceptual theme, from which they distilled ten distinctively colored plastic dress systems, sewn from synthetic and natural materials, posing questions about ecology, technology, and destruction”

Fashion in the realm of climate change: A model positioned between two Perspex boards. Tama Fox & Nitzan Zefler Collection (Photo by: Rafi Deloya)

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