18 DESIGNERS. ONE RUNWAY. THE NIGHT JEWISH NEW YORK HAS BEEN WAITING FOR AND ABBY KIKIROV WILL BE THERE 🙌

There are fashion shows. There are parties. And then, once in a generation, there is a night that a whole community talks about for years afterward.

On Thursday, September 10, 2026, I LOVE JEWISH GIRLS takes over the Léman Ballroom at 41 Broad Street, two stories of fluted columns and ocean-liner murals, a proscenium stage, and marble that has been standing quietly in the Financial District waiting for exactly this, for the first Jewish runway ever presented at New York Fashion Week.

Eighteen Jewish designers. One runway. A Broadway legend. A reigning Miss Universe Israel. A red carpet, a live art auction, a live performance, and a room built so that no guest sits more than three rows from the clothes.

Doors open at 7:30 p.m. The runway starts at 8:15 p.m. And the timing is the whole point: this lands in the last days before Rosh Hashana, the week Jewish New York is already reaching for each other, new suits, new dresses, new year, new everything. I LOVE JEWISH GIRLS turns that instinct into a party.

"Jewish fashion is everywhere. We just built the room to celebrate it proudly."

• Alejandro Glatt, Founder and Producer

THE MAN WHO SENT A PAPAYA TO THE MOON

You cannot understand this night without understanding the person who built it.

Alejandro Glatt is a third-generation Ashkenazi Jewish Mexican artist, and he is one of the most genuinely unclassifiable creative figures working today. He is the first Mexican artist to send a papaya to the Moon, his work traveled on the Lunaprise lunar museum mission in 2024, making him the first Mexican Jewish artist with art on the lunar surface. He has shown at the Louvre in Paris, at Art Basel Miami, at SXSW, and in Tel Aviv, Tulum, Mykonos, Ibiza and Costa Rica. He has collaborated with Forever 21, Guess, Lamborghini and Dr. Simi. He holds the GBA Arts Award (2022) and the Sustainable Digital Art Award (2023).

His signature practice, Feel the Fruit, uses fruit as a universal language, papaya as a symbol of union, heritage, and reconnection, in immersive installations designed to engage all five senses. His mirrors, collages and mezuzahs ship worldwide, and 21,500 people follow the work daily at @alejandroglatt.

Then there is the part that explains the runway.

Glatt spent a formative year in Israel at eighteen. He was in Israel again on October 7, 2023. What came out of that was not retreat. It was GLATT KOSHER POP ART a lifelong joke about his surname turned into a full contemporary movement fusing Jewish identity, pop culture, spirituality, resilience and storytelling. His answer to a world telling Jews to be quieter was to make Jewish art louder, bigger, and more public.

In his words, Jewish art is survival, pride, emotion, community, memory and above all, the freedom to remain visibly Jewish in today's world.

I LOVE JEWISH GIRLS is that idea, scaled up to a ballroom.

His own label, GLATT x SPENGLISH, walks the runway on the 10th: ritual-driven pop art meeting bilingual street vocabulary on moving canvas.

HOW IT STARTED: THE STANDING OVATION IN MIAMI

The concept debuted this summer at The Sagamore Hotel in Miami Beach, hosted by Mira Tzur, where it closed Miami Swim Week to a full house, the first Jewish runway in Swim Week history.

It went from modest design to string bikinis on the same runway, on purpose, because the premise was never one correct way to be a Jewish woman. The moment people still talk about: a 98-year-old Holocaust survivor walked the show as a designer and a participant, and the entire room came to its feet on instinct.

New York is that night, denser and louder, in the middle of the world's biggest fashion conversation.

THE HEADLINERS

MISS UNIVERSE ISRAEL. The collaboration with Miss Universe Israel headlines the New York edition, with Danielle Yablonka, Miss Universe Israel 2026, artist, activist, speaker, taking the runway in special participation. The partnership that began in Miami arrives at Fashion Week.

DUDU FISHER. The Broadway star and Israeli cantor opens the night with Hatikvah and closes it with Jerusalem of Gold. Known around the world as Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, the first man to play the role while keeping Shabbat. If you have ever wanted to know what a room of a thousand Jewish New Yorkers sounds like singing along, this is your night.

THE LÉMAN. Steps from the New York Stock Exchange, the Léman Ballroom is the kind of room that makes a night feel historic before anyone has said a word. Two-story fluted columns. Ocean-liner murals. A proscenium stage. The runway runs straight up the center, nobody is watching from the cheap seats, because there aren't any.

And on the guest list: fashion icon Fern Mallis, the woman who created New York Fashion Week itself, is among the expected guests.

THE COLLECTIONS: 18 DESIGNERS, ONE RUNWAY

This is the part that makes it more than a party. Established couture houses, emerging independent labels, Jewish streetwear, modest design, accessories and visual art, on one runway, for the first time.

Couture, occasion and the new modest luxury

AVIAD ARIK HERMAN — Miss Universe and Miss Israel commissions; national identity as couture language, at theatrical scale. Closes the night with the finale gown. YARON MINKOWSKI — one of Israel's leading couture voices: the polish of Tel Aviv eveningwear and a long view of glamour. SHANI DRESS BY SHANI GROSZ — opens the fashion program. Two decades of occasion dressing, with retail history at Saks and Nordstrom. MIKAEL AGHAL — New York luxury maison, est. 2007. Refined tailoring, fluid gowns, a modern sense of ceremony. MIRIYA LOVE — Italian-made womenswear: modesty inside contemporary luxury, ethically produced. TRIBE TRUE TRADITION — a Jewish fashion and lifestyle house where heritage is worn rather than archived. Launching at the show.

Faith, street-level identity and cultural signal

SHALOSH — feminine Jewish streetwear rooted in Torah, faith and embroidered storytelling. SAD GIRL RANCH — rural Americana meets underground edge: slow fashion, corsetry, ranch-coded attitude. REEFINEDYOU — New York-made modest swim and resort in premium recycled fabrics. NATALIE'S FASHION HOUSE — founded by Natalie Hajibai: the energy of real-world dressing, up close. NOALIM — Noa Greenspan's atelier: exotic-leather accessories, handmade to order. NELLY'S LIST — the Jewish social platform bringing people into the same room. HATIKVAH STICKER COLLECTIVE — global DIY Jewish street art reclaiming public space, open source. TOMER PERETZ — Israeli-American conceptual artist; The 8 Project, on resilience and recovery. GLATT x SPENGLISH — ritual-driven pop art meets bilingual street vocabulary on moving canvas. ZIONIST AF BY ANYA FARBER — nonprofit apparel; proceeds support causes in Israel.

THE CAST

Cast for presence rather than a single agency standard — many expressions of Jewish womanhood on one runway:

Monica Andrew · Danielle Yablonka (Miss Universe Israel 2026) · Ofir Korsia (Miss Universe Israel 2024) · Abigail Kikirov (Miss Israel USA 2024) · Eva Rose Blumstein · Lauren Levson · Abiyah Olha Riabikova · Meitav Wortman — at 19, the youngest on the runway · Daniela Sonnenfeld · Alexa Greenstein · Chelsea Jacobson

A CELEBRATION WITH THE DOORS WIDE OPEN

I LOVE JEWISH GIRLS is a Jewish event with its doors open to everyone. It is a cultural celebration where every guest is welcome and every guest is comfortable — whatever your background or your faith. The runway celebrates Jewish creativity the way fashion celebrates any great culture: through beauty, craft and joy.

Bring your friends. Bring the people who have never been to a Jewish event in their life. That is the design. And you never know you might meet your bashert there, in Christian Loubotin's. And when you meet Abby Kikirov, what do you think will happen?? Tell me in the comments 👇👇👇

THE PROGRAM

Runway presentation · live performance · red carpet · live art auction

Presented in collaboration with The House of Faith & Fashion by Tobi Rubinstein. Presented by EPN Fashion Week, Maggie Delany. Founded and produced by Alejandro Glatt. Operations and strategic partnerships by Carla Sonnenberg.

EDITOR'S INFORMATION

Event I LOVE JEWISH GIRLS at New York Fashion Week Date Thursday, September 10, 2026 Doors / Runway Doors 7:30 p.m. · Runway 8:15 p.m. Venue Léman Ballroom, 41 Broad Street, New York, NY 10004 Program Runway presentation, live performance, red carpet, live art auction Tickets luma.com/pvdzbpv1 Website ilovejewishgirls.com Instagram @ilovejewishgirlssss

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