Entrance to the exhibition 'Kol Kala' - Kling House 09/08/2026
Thematic exhibition exploring the cultural and artistic evolution of the wedding dress throughout the centuries, combining historical displays with contemporary interpretations by local designers. The project is realized as part of the "Ashdod – City of Fashion" initiative and emphasizes the connection between fashion, identity, and community. The event takes place in the Beit Kalang hall in Ashdod.
Thematic exhibition exploring the cultural and artistic evolution of the wedding dress throughout the centuries, combining historical displays with contemporary interpretations by local designers. The project is realized as part of the "Ashdod – City of Fashion" initiative and emphasizes the connection between fashion, identity, and community. The event takes place in the Beit Kalang hall in Ashdod.
Entrance to "Bride's Voice" Exhibition — Klanng House
"Bride's Voice" — the bridal gown is re-examined as a cultural, artistic, and contemporary object. Layers of lace, silk, and dreams converge into a single moment in time within the bridal gown — perhaps the most emotionally charged garment in the human wardrobe. It carries on its shoulders the weight of generations, family traditions, and personal identity, yet at the same time it is light as a promise. Mostly it is a dress worn once, but it carries with it memories, traditions, dreams, and cultural images accumulated over generations. Over the years and across different cultures, the bridal gown has changed colors, fabrics, and forms: from colorful and embroidered dresses to the white gown worn by Queen Victoria on her wedding day — a moment that made white the color most associated with bridal gowns in the Western world. Since then, the white dress has become a cultural icon, constantly changing and being reshaped with time.
The "Bride's Voice" exhibition, held in collaboration with Portfolio magazine at Klanng House in Ashdod, is part of promoting the vision of "Ashdod, City of Fashion," positioning Ashdod as a significant center of creation, design, and fashion in Israel. "Bride's Voice" is the fourth fashion exhibition opening this year as part of realizing this vision, alongside the exhibitions "Fashion Worker" by designer Doreen Frankfort, "Coming to Light: Fashion!" and the exhibition "The Seam Line."
The exhibition emphasizes Ashdod's role as a space of creativity, renewal, and cultural discourse connecting fashion, identity, and community, through six fashion houses specializing in bridal gown design and operating in Ashdod, historical displays, and contemporary interpretations. Additionally, it features a wall of miniatures by young designers from the Fashion Design Department at Shenkar; a deconstruction installation of a bridal gown that reveals the work and complexity behind it; and a historical timeline tracking the changes the bridal gown has undergone over the years.
According to Amit Sandik, fashion editor of Portfolio and curator of the exhibition: "'Bride's Voice' connects tradition with contemporary interpretation, and invites a fresh look at one of the most familiar, fascinating, and emotionally charged garments in the fashion world. Through the works of local designers, historical displays, and contemporary interpretations, the exhibition seeks to open a new perspective on the bridal gown and on the cultural, social, and personal meanings it carries with it."
Curators: Amit Sandik, Portfolio
