David Weksler | Fashionable Event

Just like my Jaffa studio, the museum space I was allotted became a sphere of hectic activity, including the design of a new collection, sewing, measuring and working with professionals in the field of textile, fashion and nightlife. My design style is influenced by street fashion - a mélange of cultures, stories, colors and styles. I work with textiles and recycled materials which invoke awareness to our ecological existence, combined with manual or advanced print technologies.

This work derives its inspiration from, among other sources, the Trask Guys – a group that formed in 1917 in Tel Aviv-Yafo, and included Poets Avraham Shlonsky and Alexander Penn, and the founder of the Hebrew Theatre in Israel, David Davidov. The group strove to cheer and tease the residents of the small city, and its members were considered kings of its nightlife. 

I seek to introduce into the museum a life which is productive, flamboyant and full of creative passion and playfulness, while focusing on the production and manufacturing of a fashion line, and accompanying inspirational materials. The performative elements in the field of fashion, which celebrate the politically diverse and unrestrained locality, will be given expression in a rave which will be held in the museum's courtyard, and will include, among others, a fashion installation which will present the line created especially for the exhibition.