Instruction:
Design facilitator: Sharon Ezra, technical facilitator: Dalia Cohen

The starting point for the project began with a quote from trendsetter Lee Adelcourt: “It’s time for a radical change, contemporary society is ready to part with a material worldview and replace it with handmade objects, and earth-related and complex materials, also create new shapes.” “Investigating their history, they go back to the beginning of time.”
Following Adelcourt’s text, Ribi examined the connection between man and earth, and what happens when antiquity beats progress. The designer grew up in Eilat – the desert resort city, and her parents worked as the managers of the luxury hotels in the city. “I lived in hotels and worked in them from a young age,” she says. “I was fascinated by the contrast between the most ancient landscape – the Israeli desert and its extreme climatic conditions versus the aesthetics of Israeli freedom and luxury.”
The essence of ‘vacation’ after the post-Corona period has completely changed and the designer found it appropriate to design an Israeli resort collection for women that is all longing and nostalgia for the Israeli vacation, while adapting to the new routine. The collection combined colors and patterns I created, inspired by the landscape and desert textures, with a combination of natural materials such as silk, clay, twigs and the like.

Photo: Ido Lavie, Adi Segal