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He was born into a wealthy Italian Jewish family of cotton exporters. Despite his upper-class background, he became a communist activist, founding an organization called the Democratic Union as an intellectual home for Egyptian communists and publishing a communist magazine and newspaper. Hanoka and Aghion married at the age of 19.
Oct 10, 2023 · “Mood of the Moment: Gaby Aghion and the House of Chloé” at the Jewish Museum opens to the public on October 13, 2023 and runs until February 18, 2024.
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Jan 17, 2024 · The documentary 'Looking for Chloé' shines a belated, welcome spotlight on Egyptian-born Gaby Aghion, the bourgeois communist who dressed the likes of Maria Callas and Madonna.
Oct 24, 2023 · With its new exhibition “Mood of the Moment,” the Jewish Museum in New York highlights the Jewish Egyptian entrepreneur Gaby Aghion’s groundbreaking work as the founder of French fashion...
Oct 16, 2017 · Jewish success in the fashion industry is well documented - from generations of textile traders to modern day fashion icons like Donna Karran, Ralph Museum of the Jewish People
The article said that only two women have been Chloe's head designer and it noted that both are Jewish: Aghion, and STELLA McCARTNEY, now 52. The article correctly said that McCartney identifies as Jewish, but really doesn’t practice (LINDA, her late mother, and Paul McCartney’s wife, was Jewish).
Oct 17, 2023 · An exhibition at The Jewish Museum tells the story of founder Gaby Aghion and her enduring influence. Gaby Aghion in the desert near Alexandria, Egypt, photographed by Raymond Aghion, ca....
