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Designer Efrat Klig: "I have no apologetic dresses. My dresses are temporary" | Israel today

2022-06-22T17:42:10.547Z


She misses Paris ("It's a house, it's my heart and soul"), ignores criticism ("I was not born to do nice") and dreams of directing a TV show about fashion in the world. Designer Efrat Klig talks about late motherhood, longing for her father, religion and tradition and the dress she designed for Minister Fitness


When was the last time you got excited?

"At my son's bar mitzvah, Aviv, last February. We celebrated him in Holy Safed. Uriah's family (her partner - Shaz) is originally from Safed, and we found a family Torah scroll in the Abohav Synagogue in Safed, a synagogue that is more than 500 years old. One of the oldest and most preserved, and there Aviv ascended to the Torah.

We took a producer who leads grooms to their canopy and invited a hundred people, just the ones who accompany us in life.

There was a stunning meal on Mount Meron, and from there we marched in procession, with a canopy embroidered above us, with a band of singers, trumpets and bitter drums, pigeons, balloons, blessings and prayers.

It was an event with lots and lots of faith, tradition, values ​​and songs, and I cried there, I was smeared.

I missed my father, and when I had to choose a tallit and tefillin for spring, I realized how much I believe in people who love religion and tradition and are connected to this country in the depths of my roots.

"As event leaders in Israel, we knew that all the vendors would want to give us 'the best' of themselves, but I did not see myself doing an event in the hall, and my son even wanted a bar mitzvah at the Hilton in Paris. Even after Safed, after a mega-holy event, he asked when to do Have an event at the Hilton Paris! "

 When was the last time you visited Paris?

"At the bar mitzvah of spring, three months ago. Paris is a home, it is my heart and soul. I do not know what it is to buy a thong anywhere else in the world. After 12 years of hard work this city smiled at me, and I can be arrogant and say that this city Created for me.Today I fly to Paris every three months for work.Bringing fabrics, stones and exclusive materials, and also doing mind shopping.I always combine intense work with a little pleasure, and that's how my kids grew up.

"I always dreamed of fashion and Paris. I tore pages from fashion magazines and waited for me to present my work on models. I knew I would be there. .

"I arrived in Paris at the age of 20, with no language, no family and no friends. In the mornings I studied French at the Sorbonne and in the afternoon I went to the Louvre, sat and painted. I remember walking the streets there like a drunk. I started working thanks to many elbows. I was an opera in a Jewish family. "Couture is the only one in the world. Every year, 2,000 students from all over the world enroll in it, and only the 28 most talented are accepted. I was accepted, and I realized that when you have charisma, when you charge and load people well, you will succeed everywhere."

When was the last time you fulfilled a dream?

"Two months ago. I made a three-generation trip to Barcelona, ​​with my mother and my Roman daughter. My mother, Ohala - she was called that because she was born in a tent in a transit camp in Ramat Gan, the youngest of eight children - travels all over the world, and only in Barcelona she has not been. She's 70 and she's my best friend. All I am - 90 percent is her, who always gave me the place, always looked at me as if I were the most beautiful, the most sociable, the most perfect, the best there is. Throughout the years and her international career and work is She supported me, and every three months she came to visit me.With a career and raising four children, my dream was to stop everything and do something with her and for her, to celebrate her.And when Rumi, my eldest, received a first order - I realized it was time.

"I have another dream come true: I dream of doing a TV show about fashion around the world. Fashion is high art, and these are long processes, and I want TV. I want to guide and reflect the make-up of the collection train processes, inspirations, influences and predictions, and reflect the "The mind of fashion designers. At the same time, I want to embroider fashion trips for mothers and daughters. Excursions with added value to the leading places in the world."

When was the last time you spent time with family?

"Yesterday, at dinner. Because our lives are crazy, Uriah and I decided that every day at seven in the evening there would be a family dinner, and we are sacred to this thing. We have life before and after dinner. These are two hours that are our charges, no phones and no studio and nothing. .

When was the last time you met a new girlfriend?

"I have no friends in the industry, and I have no friends in the country. My life was pretty torn apart, because at the end of the army I flew to Paris and made a new life there, so my friends are mostly French from the fashion houses there. I built a turbulent, sweeping and crazy life. Colleagues I really appreciate, including Taylor Malchov, my new ambassador.

"As a leading designer, I consider the modeling profession to be of paramount importance and value. It is a difficult and complex profession. A good model consists of high and thin opening figures, but for me the personality bypasses everything, she has to project her personality first. With Taylor I really enjoy working. The new girls, the next generation, with the stars and professionals like the old celebs in Paris. For me she is the next Claudia Schiffer of Israel. Every season I choose the new face I want to bring the next thing with them. It breaks me. I worked with Dikla, Rita, Bar Refaeli, "Throughout my career, I have always presented on a top model, and at the same time, the captivating personality of the celebrities I chose to wear stood out, so that their values ​​and personality blend in with my classic couture."

When was the last time you received a review?

"I do not count criticism of me, because when you make classics or nice dresses then you address a certain audience, nice, and I was not born to do nice. I mean something else, a different personality, someone who wants to make an entrance. In front of my dresses you miss a beat. I never had The whole world desires to be liked, and even only 20 percent of the population are the most understanding, so there I am.

"When I arrived in Israel, a good friend told me that I should go down to the people, walk around and see what was happening here in Israel. And I brought my sculptures, in colors with a statement - fuchsia red, strong and clean colors, a very modern style, and I replied: 'Am I Arad to the people? For my part the whole nation will ascend to me. 'I was born to make people a little more beautiful than they are, and that's what I do.

"Last fashion week, Moti Reif turned to the designers and asked for one model that was supposed to be a scandal. Usually designers take it to grotesque, to grow from life, to a costume. I chose to open my show with a fitness minister, wearing a dress that was meant for the Grand Finale at all.

"What happened was that I did not know Sher. I heard about her moving story, that she almost lost her life due to a carnivorous bacterium at birth, and when she came to the studio I expected her to arrive a little weaker and a little fuller. Herself. She understood from the eyes of the doctors who treated her that there was no one to help. So that I would not show off her body and I would not show off her essence?

"I wrapped it all in a red Oscar and showed a narrow, long and strong body slit in unexpected places. This dress illustrates exactly her story, the power. She really loved the dress, which illustrates how one can be so open and closed at the same time."

When was the last time you were offered to participate in a reality show?

"All the time, without end. My name is carried in the corridors, and I am offered both to participate and to work. I was offered to go to 'Big Brother', but I am not the amusement animal of the State of Israel. My husband and I also wanted to participate in 'Race for a Million', but I take I'm very serious, including life, and I'm a control freak.

"They also offer me a lot to work in reality, to make costumes. Offered, for example, from 'Dancing with the Stars'. As a fashion leader and fashion anchor, who is weak on screens, it still excites me and challenges me. "Unrestrained."

When was the last time you cried?

"Last week. My garden is full of white butterflies, and when I lost my father I decided that every white butterfly is my father, who came with a message for me. My father, Itzik, had a great writer in Ramat Gan and he was a stunning personality. He was a man of the whole neighborhood and area, pompous. Mine is from him. Everything about him was big, thorough and total. He died eight years ago of all the cocktail, heart and sugar, and because he was a very strong man, I did not believe anything could kill him. He was 64 years old in total.

"After his death I realized how much he instilled in me independence and way of life. He taught me to give, and so am I. My job is not work in my eyes. All day I charge people and help them go to the end with their beauty and splendor, or with their hump, and always know how to wrap It's the most beautiful thing possible. "

When was the last time you were surprised?

"The birth of my little Uri, who is now 3 years old, surprised me. She is a miracle. I am 48 years old and I gave birth to her at the age of 45. She is my fitness trainer. I have always seen myself married and a mother of three, because that's the way it should be.

“I was overwhelmed at work, doing and at high peaks, at 9,000 mph, and then the doctor told me I was pregnant.

And at an age where there is a 50 percent risk of leaving and a 50 percent drop, that was a very difficult dilemma.

My mother told me, 'Grandma would always say pregnancy is health.'

I asked my husband, 'Say, are you with me in everything?', And he replied, 'Yes.

Whatever you decide and whatever you want, we are together in everything.

Then I said, 'Let's see a pulse,' and today I can say that it's the most amazing thing God has sent me. "

When was the last time you got good advice?

"I tend not to listen to anyone, and do not give way to noises that only disrupt my path and divert me from it. My totality has always only brought me success, and I understand that there are people who are bothered by it, this gallop of mine, but I see only what I want to see. .

"Those who still push me against the wall are also my great inspiration, the only ones who require me to listen to them - the children. Rumi, the eldest, obliges me to stop and listen only to her, and no one cares about her. Through her I see a magnifying glass of a moment. The children ask me away. "'Be a little with me.'

When was the last time you checked the current account?

"Last week. I'm not really checking, Uriah is updating me. I have my standard of living, which I do not compromise on. I like good, quality things. I do not like much, but I like accurate, and that's how I educate my children.

"In terms of fashion, there has to be everything. Even the cheapest, the medium, the expensive and the unique, it depends on life events and choices, and in the end it's a matter of priorities. I like to make combinations - wear dolce tights and diamonds, with a cheap earring. "My daughter. The world is made up of combinations. But for the leading events of life, which is our Oscar, a woman should be at her best, as far as possible. I have no apologetic dresses. My dresses are timeless and international."

When was the last time you were very scared?

"From the first day I had children I got new proportions to life. Everything that was extreme became more extreme, and everything that was sound no longer exists. For example, my anxiety about water. When my son was 5 he was invited to a friend's birthday party in a private garden. Fish pond. For a split second I did not look, and suddenly I saw my child floating in the pond. The ball flew into the pond, and he reached a leg and went to fetch it, and suddenly he floated. The pond was much deeper than it looked, and I jumped and dumped it away. The water was cold, And I seduced my child and I was scared to death.

"In the end it's self-control, minute after minute of regulating yourself and your fears. A mixture of allowing them to be who they are and of keeping them."

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When was the first time you felt you had succeeded in a big way?

"When I was 26 and took part in tomorrow's top young designers' competition in Paris at the Louvre. This is the first fashion show to open Couture Week, and the competing designers are supposed to design five leading models. I wanted to produce something that is also wearable and not just grotesque, and the dilemma In the end I chose to make a collection of only three models. I was shaking, I was not breathing, I was afraid I would be burned because I did not meet the criteria. She left me with only two dresses! I gave her my most hysterical dress, and later I also won second place in the competition. It was against all the rules and against all conventions, but it's me. "She wore my dress from morning to evening, and it's proof that my couture is wearable and stunning."

Efrat Klig: 48 years old, married and mother of four.

Elite fashion designer and manager of a fashion house for wedding and evening dresses.

After completing her military service, she flew to Paris to study for a degree at the prestigious La Chembre Sandical de la haute couture, then pursued an internship at the French Opera Garnier, where she continued for the prestigious Dior fashion house, where she worked for four years with designer John Galliano.

She currently owns a studio on "Designers Avenue" in Dizengoff and dresses celebrities and opinion leaders.

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Source: israelhayom

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