Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Great Moments in Fashion!

And now! Great moments in fashion! (As always, this is going somewhere, people.)

1) KISS-Bursting onto the music scene in 1972, American rock band KISS becomes well-known for their wild make-up and attire. While many are aware that lead singer Gene Simmons was born as Chaim Witz in Israel, few are privy to the Jewish identity of co-bandleader Paul Stanley, born Idan Bamba on Kibbutz Ketura.

"Ahhh...wanna rock and roll aaaaall niiiiiight!
And eat in the chadar ochel every day!"

2) Björk-In 2001, Icelandic singer Bjork Guðmundsdóttir turns heads and feathers by showing up to the Oscars in a swan dress. One week later, the singer's album sales plummet among birds age 18-49.

I just spent 5 minutes searching for a PhotoShopped picture of a swan wearing a Bjork dress.
I can't believe nobody ever did this.
(Can I have the last 5 minutes of my life back?)

3) Ehud Olmert-With his unexpected rise to power in 2006, Ehud Olmert becomes the highest ranking world leader to sport the combover, forever to be known as the Colm-over.

Why the long face, Hootie?
YOU'RE A FASHION ICON!

4) Some woman in Tel Aviv-This woman almost made me spill my cafe hafuch in my lap when I saw this. I have nothing more to say.

Superman, your services are not needed.
Who needs X-ray vision?


Ahhhh....Tel Aviv. How I miss you so.

4 comments:

Mia said...

so you don't like eggplant colored hair and seeing peoples bras. How did you last so long in TA?

many years ago I worked at the Dan Cesarea hotel and Björk was staying there. One evening before her performence she come out to the pool for a topless swim, and many people came out to thier balconies for a pre-concert show.

lilu said...

Is that a HOOD on that backless bra-baring shirt?

Funny story -- spent a month with my family in TA a few summers ago... while i was there, the hot thing was buing bras with removable straps, then replacing the straps with bejeweled straps that are meant to be seen... then, of course, wearing bra-baring shirts to show off said bejeweled straps.

Despite living in America most of the time, I got sucked into the craze and brought a bunch back to the US with me... as you can imagine, I only sported that fashion once after returning....

ps -- LOVE any post that includes a photo of KISS before they took off the makeup

Benji Lovitt said...

The hood is what makes it, in my opinion. I'm going to go to Shuk Hacarmel and buy 3 of them. (Like I used to do at Old Navy...it's a guy thing.)

Mia said...

I just noticed it's a pale yellow shirt with a black bra. I wonder what it looks like from the front.
I'm going to Tel Aviv for the weekend, and now I realise I have nothing appropriate to wear.