Soiree. Material of textile Vistra G.M.b.h. Model of Herrmann Gerson.
Drawing by R. L. Leonard. Style, panel 10, Issue VII, 1922.
Orig.: Soiree. Material der Vistra Textil G.M.b.h. Modell von Herrmann Gerson. Zeichnung von R. L. Leonard. Styl, Tafel 10, Heft VII, 1922. STYL – von Ludwig Sternaux (Blätter für Mode und die angenehmen Dinge des Lebens). Publiziert in Berlin von Erich Reiss & Otto v. Holten in 1922 & 1923.
Herrmann Gerson (1813-1861) was a Berlin Jewish fashion designer and operator of one of the leading fashion stores in Berlin. The store was known for its women’s fashion and as a purveyor supplied the royal and imperial houses of Prussia, Russia, the UK and Ireland as well as Sweden and Norway and the German Empire.
Shortly before his death, he was commissioned to produce the coronation mantle of William I. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery at Schönhauser Allee Berlin.
Adelheid Rasche is the head of the Lipperheidesche Costume Library of Art Library, at the National Museums in Berlin. Anna Zika, Professor of Design Theory at the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld.
Fashioning Jews: Clothing, Culture and Commerce (Studies in Jewish Civilization)
This volume presents papers delivered at the 24th Annual Klutznick Harris Symposium, held at Creighton University in October 2011. Papers explore topics ranging from Jewish leadership in the textile industry, through the art of fashion in 19th century Vienna, to the use of clothing as a badge of ethnic identity, in both secular and religious contexts.
Focusing on tensions over gender, ethnic identity and assimilation, each chapter discusses the meaning and symbolism of a specific era or type of Jewish dress. What were biblical and rabbinic fashions? Why was clothing so important to immigrant Jews in America? Why do Hassidic Jews wear black? When did yarmulkes become bar mitzvah souvenirs?
