Freelance style writer Rosalba Curiel offers her take on last night’s Mode Israel show:

Mode Israel L.A. tapped Tel Aviv’s electro pop group Terry Poison to open its runway show of Israeli designers at the MOCA Geffen Contemporary last night. Garbed in green lamé, red spandex and blue sequins, the band injected the catwalk with one of the evening’s few doses of bright colors, while designers, who included Alembika, Bet-Ka, Bracha Bar-On, Kedem Sasson, Keren Naftali, Shai Shalom, Sugar Daddy and Yosef Peretz, went on to present predominantly black and white color palettes for their Spring 2010 lines.

Stand-outs in the octet included those who broke-up the monochromatic monotony with the occasional unexpected embellishment, like Peretz’s inclusion of a line of studs sliding down a floor-length coat, or Bet-Ka’s diagonal placement of a rugged zipper against a chiffon dress.

Shalom’s intermittent placement of silk panels next to swathes of sheer fabric in shirts and skirts lent his collection a sexy edge over the made-for-maximizing-comfort lines of Bar-on, who dressed more than one model in white cotton leggings, as well as Alembika, who sent models down the runway in roomy handkerchief cardigans.

Sasson, on the other hand, appeared to sacrifice comfort for aesthetics, creating voluminous floor-length skirts with too many folds to count. The designer, who describes his creations as “three dimensional wearable arts,” included an abundance of fabric all the coats and skirts he created. Too bold? Perhaps. As bold as green lamé, or red spandex? Debatable.

–Rosalba Curiel