Art and designלולה בר אבנר

Lola Beer Ebner

Lola Beer Ebner was an Israeli fashion designer who designed uniforms for El Al stewardesses and IDF women soldiers.

1910 to 1997El Al stewardess uniformsIDF women soldiers' uniformsDressing wives of Israeli leaders

Born: 6 August 1910, Prostějov
Died: 3 March 1997, Jaffa
Occupation: fashion designer, designer
Founded: Lola Beer Ebner Sculpture Garden

Lola Beer Ebner was born in 1910 in Prostějov

Lola Beer Ebner was born Carola Zwillinger in 1910 in Prostějov, Moravia. The town became part of Czechoslovakia in 1918. She studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague.

In 1939 she moved to Mandatory Palestine with her two brothers. The rest of her family died in the Holocaust. She opened a studio in her Tel Aviv apartment and moved it to a Bauhaus house on HaYarkon Street in 1942.

She made custom clothes for the wives of Israeli leaders, including Paula Ben-Gurion and Leah Rabin, and was called the "national dresser". In 1957 she designed the El Al stewardess uniforms, and later the uniforms of IDF women soldiers and Israel Post mail carriers. She also designed a dress line for ATA, academic robes for the Weizmann Institute and theater costumes.

In 1945 she married Adolf (Dolfi) Ebner, and they had no children. She donated to universities, to Shenkar College and to the Weizmann Institute. She died in 1997 and was buried in Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery.