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Friday April 4, 2008

That Torah looks good on you!

A Jewish fashion designer unveiled a line of clothing using parchment and velvet Torah covers for women’s dresses.

Fashion designer Levi Okunov, who was raised in a Chassidic family in Brooklyn, unveiled his upcoming fall fashion line last week at New York’s Jewish Museum. In the past, Okunov’s clothing designs have included Shabbat tablecloths, kabbalistic imagery and tallits.

In a recent interview, Okunov said his latest dresses were inspired by a teaching of the Ba’al Shem Tov, the founder of Chassidism, who said that every person is like a Torah scroll. — jta

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