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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 · Photo by Dario Lasagni. Image courtesy of the Jewish Museum. Chemena Kamali was named Chloé’s new creative director yesterday. The 41-year-old German designer joins a long list of mostly female...
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Jan 17, 2024 · The Little-known Jewish Fashion Pioneer Behind Luxury Ready-to-wear Clothing. 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 19, 2023 · This spirit is on full display at the Jewish Museum‘s show “Mood of the moment: Gaby Aghion and the house of Chloé,” which opened last week. It takes a look at not just the pioneering ...
Oct 10, 2023 · Mood of the moment: Gaby Aghion and the house of Chloé is on view at the Jewish Museum from October 13, 2023, through February 18, 2024. Gaby Aghion was born Gabriella Hanoka in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1921 to a Jewish family.
Oct 17, 2023 · Mood of the moment: Gaby Aghion and the house of Chloé, open now at The Jewish Museum in New York City, aims to set that straight. Curated by Choghakate Kazarian, the first major museum show...
