Yonni Hirner

BFA, Product Design

One outfit from a S/S fashion show that employs the imagery from the stories of Passover and Yom Kippur on Avant Garde forms of traditional Jewish Religious wear. The holiday of Yom Kippur deals with atonement and one of the main images in the holiday is the idol of a golden calf. Atonement is expiation for an individual’s own sin in order to attain God’s forgiveness and purity. The show’s theme is the achievement of spiritual purity which adds beauty to ones’ self through atonement. The idea that beauty and spirituality being interconnected can be seen in religious texts.

Iscah

2023, textile and bull horn, variable dimensions