In December, gay designer Jordan Star launched bubuleh, a sustainable brand with clothing “made with love and just a little anxiety.” The new brand – with a name that roughly translates to sweetheart in Yiddish – pulls inspiration from his Jewish heritage, family, and identity as an LGBTQ Jew, and puts older ideas into conversation with newer styles.Star says that, in many ways, he’s found his Jewish and queer identities to be complementary in terms of shared values and the joint emphasis on community, and has always felt that it’s vital for him to be out and proud as both.
One way he’s doing that is through fashion, and specifically through his new Holey Collection (a play on Holy).A post shared by bubuleh (@shopbubuleh)Traditionally in.