Originally inspired by a painting of Jesus from the 16th century with a noose tied

around his neck, Rope Tails begun forming in designer’s Shirley Itzik mind in one of her

visits to the Louvre years back.

Anything can be transformed into an object of desire is one of the corner stones of her

artistic agenda. Here portrayed by a rope as an artifact of collective meaning

processed and transformed into gold colored metals of a regal nature.

The pieces of the collection are meant to arouse a relation or association to a certain

place in our personal or collective memory.

Casted, braided and modified into precious jewels, the original material remains absent

from the collection. This assembly is all about the metal, tradition and the appearance

of things.

Either solid and sculptural, fluid and mobile, textured or smooth, or a combination of all,

she draws from her habitual attempt to form  tension between fields and

merge the rough and refined.

Referencing to antiques and magnum opus of the field along with an amused take on

classics and romanticism combined with clean and modern geometric lines, the

collection tells a tale  of diverse inspirations beginning in biblical time, walking

through modernism. A small paraphrase on power and submission, suggesting

tragedies worn as symbols of triumph leaving the edges unraveled for more to come.

 

Dream team credits:

Creative direction & photography: Noa Yafe
Models: Nana Yaa Asare Boadu & Yoshevah Jones
Make Up: Netta Szekely