{"id":149892,"date":"2025-11-24T07:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T07:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/149892\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T07:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T07:13:12","slug":"posing-topless-is-not-a-big-deal-for-israeli-model-tapped-for-new-versace-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/149892\/","title":{"rendered":"Posing topless is ‘not a big deal’ for Israeli model tapped for new Versace campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fashion house Versace unveiled Saturday the first two shots from the debut campaign by its new artistic director, Dario Vitale, whose first collection for the label was revealed in September. Under the title \u201cMichal Harodi, Milan, September\u202f2025,\u201d the campaign features the Israeli actress, model and classical pianist Michal\u202fHarodi \u2013 a once\u2011virtually\u2011unknown face who shot to prominence overnight. In one image, Harodi lies relaxed on her forearms, topless, wearing only a sequin\u2011emblazoned bottom.<\/p>\n

Harodi secured the campaign following earlier photos taken by Israeli\u2011born London\u2011based photographer Dafy Hagai, ynet has reported. Hagai\u2019s image caught the eye of casting director Julia Lang, who was immediately impressed and quickly invited her to a photo shoot \u2013 and the rest is history. Prior to this, Harodi had appeared for a number of local photographers and labels, including Fez and the fashion site Belle\u202f&\u202fSue of designer Inbal Boussiba.<\/p>\n

Harodi, 27, is a graduate of Alon High School in Ramat\u202fHaSharon, who majored in music. During her military service she served as an instructor in the Education Corps and worked as a kindergarten teacher in an anthroposophical nursery in Kfar\u202fHaYarok. <\/p>\n

She told ynet that the shoot took place in Milan in September. \u201cThere were 10 models from around the world, and the concept was centered on the body. I was the only Israeli there, and most people thought Israel was somewhere near Mongolia,\u201d she laughed.<\/p>\n

When asked if posing topless bothered her, she said: \u201cIt\u2019s so not a ‘big deal\u2019 for me\u2014certainly not in the international fashion industry. Only in Israel do people get worked up about it. The photographer was so respectful and sensitive, and I view it as a crazy love for female beauty.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked whether she viewed the shoot as a springboard to an international career she said: \u201cHopefully, let\u2019s see where the campaign takes me, but I would be very happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a 2020 interview with\u202fShelly\u202fGross for the \u201cFashion School\u201d section in LaIsha magazine, early in her career, Harodi described her style: \u201cI dress comfortably\u2014pants and wide jeans, loosely buttoned shirts. A lot of white. I only started loving skirts in the past year or two. It\u2019s really beautiful, sexy and feminine in my eyes. Sometimes I lack the courage and it feels like I\u2019m forcing it, but I like seeing women wearing skirts in the street. A skirt\u2011combo makes me want to dance. Ultimately I like wearing items from my mother\u2019s wardrobe. She has amazing pieces.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Israeli model Sharon Ganesh appeared in the Spring\u2013Summer\u202f2002 Versace campaign <\/p>\n

(Photo: Steven Meisel)<\/p>\n

This is not the first time an unknown Israeli model has been chosen for a Versace campaign. In the early 2000s, 19\u2011year\u2011old model Sharon Ganesh appeared in the Spring\u2013Summer\u202f2002 campaign shot by photographer Steven Meisel. Ganesh\u2019s modeling career in Israel had been stalling, yet overnight she became a leading international model, and today lives in Israel with her husband and six children.<\/p>\n

Choosing a fresh, previously unseen model signals the new agenda Vitale is bringing to Versace: not another campaign with Gigi Hadid or Bella Hadid so strongly identified with the label, but new faces. He laid the foundations in his first collection for the brand, with aesthetics that diverge 180\u202fdegrees from those of Donatella Versace, who has designed for the house since her brother\u2019s murder in 1997. There is no doubt that this campaign will elevate Harodi\u2019s work\u2014both internationally and within Israel.<\/p>\n

It is regrettable that, as with many models before her\u2014Ganesh, Moran Atias and Sun Mizrahi\u2014each possessing beauty that transcends the blond\u2011and\u2011blue\u2011eyes norm so often valued here, only when their careers break overseas do they receive recognition at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fashion house Versace unveiled Saturday the first two shots from the debut campaign by its new artistic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-149892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}