His other fashion shoot is
another controversial topic of
gender segregation and here in
the holy land where they were
considering bus segregation
had many in uproar. The law
was never passed and we are
all riding the buses together
without any issues, although
religious men are known to
move if a woman sits beside
them. Lior points out in reponse
to Haredi (ultra orthodox) men
claiming that women must dress
extremely modestly to limit
their attractiveness to men: “I
am in the presence of rather
scantily clad women several
days a week, and I manage to
control myself.”
Would we really want a world
where we all have the same
beliefs, where agreement is
all we know. It would be the
same as every woman wearing
the same thing, isn’t that
the biggest faux paus in
Hollywood? Yet in life we seek
sameness and conformity, in
fashion we aim to be different,
to stand out, to make a
statement.
Every
woman
expressing her inner self in
a multitude of ways, we don’t
see women fighting over
wanting to look the same,
instead they make a choice
based on how they want to
shine their light into the
world, rockstar, edgy, girlie,
all
black,
hippy,
sexy,
Gender segregation has existed whatever works.
for as long as we can remember.
According to Lior, “It is an act Lior’s work has reminded me,
of violence or forgetting the yet again, about the power that
significance of women. H e fashion holds and how through
believes that women are much it we can learn diversity and
closer to God then men, a difference.
woman creates life inside her,
unites,
inspires
and
if someone should go sit on the It
back of the bus, it’s the man challenges us to become better
and more tolerant. We can see
not the woman," says Lior.
that the power of fashion lies in
With his work, his goal was not every one’s life, you can meet
to create controversy but to fashion everywhere you look or
share his admiration for women. go and if we rallied together to
He has through his work tried to celebrate the differences that
understand the loss of control as Guy Sebastian’s song tells us
a man would feel by pushing “Maybe if we’d work together,
the situation to its final limit, we’d already have a heaven here
a beautiful model standing in on earth”.
the center of five men who are
dressed as orthodox Haredim.
His work is an amazing tool to
criticise, to flatter, to take to
the open subjects, which are
taboos, with an unlimited selfinterpretation, and the ability
to make the un-thinkable real.
The message to the world is
open your mind.