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JTA — David Bowie, Greta Garbo and Sean Connery are not Jewish. But some of the clothes they did make were the famous Bowie dress, the Garbos hat, and the tuxedo that Connery wore as James Bond, all made by Jewish creators.
A London museum is trying to collect some of the garments to exhibit about the impact London’s immigrant community has had on the British fashion industry.
The London Docklands Museum documents the city’s history as a port city, telling the stories of the people who arrived on the River Thames, from African slaves brought through the Atlantic slave trade to the masses of Jewish immigrants who arrived in the late 1800s fleeing persecution in Eastern Europe.
Like their co-religionists who arrived in New York, many of those Jews found themselves in the garment industry after immigrating.
Jews worked at all levels of London’s fashion industry throughout the 20th century, but their contributions were widely not recognized, fashion curator Lucie Whitmore said in a statement from the museum.
Jewish makers founded the ready-to-wear industry, toiling towards the highest levels of London fashion and dominating Carnaby Street in the swinging sixties. Many of these internationally renowned designers are favored by the rich and famous and highly regarded for their creativity, skill and originality. This is a contribution that deserves to be recognized.
From October to April 2024, the museum will host an exhibition entitled Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners Shaped Global Style.
However, to fill the collection, they asked the public for help in gathering famous artifacts made by Jewish designers such as Mr Fish (born Michael Fish), Cecil Gee, Otto Lucas, the Rahvis brothers, and Madame Isobel (Isobel Spevak Haris). The statement stated that the museum was looking for menswear worn by famous names such as David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Muhammad Ali and Michael Caine, along with members of The Beatles, on March 1.
Fish produced some of England’s most iconic fashion designs of the 1960s and 70s, such as the wide kipper tie. Cecil Gee started his career in the 1930s and designed the Demob Suit short for demobilization given to British soldiers by soldiers after they were released from World War II service. Raemonde and Dora Rahvis were two South African-born Jewish sisters who after emigrating to London became some of the first prominent costume designers in the British film industry.
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