Yaara Keydar

Yaara Keydar

Ya’ara Keydar, MA, is a fashion historian and curator. She is currently a doctoral student in the Cultural Studies PhD program at Hebrew University and winner of the Fellowship Scholarship from the Lafer Center for Women and Gender Studies. Keydar graduated from the Costume Studies MA program at NYU, and was the recipient of the NYU Steinhardt School’s Samuel Eshborn Award in 2016. She holds a bachelor’s degree with honors in fashion design from Shenkar College.​
Keydar curated the exhibition “Heroines: Fashion and Hope in World War II” (2025) at Design Museum Holon. This marks her fourth exhibition at the museum, following “Alber Elbaz: The Dream Factory” (2022), “The Ball: Fashion & Escapism” (2021), which became the museum’s most successful exhibition to date, and “Je t’aime, Ronit Elkabetz” (2018). She also curated “New York Fashion Rediscovered” at ZAZ10TS Gallery in NYC (2020); “A Walk of Art: Visionary Shoes” (2017), dedicated to artistic shoe designs by students and alumni of Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, which was shown at the Parasol Gallery in New York and later traveled to San Francisco; Cinderella Syndrome: A Journey in the Footsteps of the Stiletto in Israel; and co-curated Beyond Measure: Fashion and the Plus Size Woman at 80WSE Gallery in New York.
Keydar graduated from the Costume Studies M.A program at NYU and is a 2016 winner of NYU's Samuel Eshborn Award. She holds a bachelor’s degree with honors in fashion design from Shenkar College of Engineering and Design. She interned at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, as well as the Museum at FIT.
Keydar was a guest speaker at The Jewish Museum in New York, JCC Manhattan, Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem, and more.
Specializes in the connection between fashion, culture, art and history, and lectures at various museums and cultural institutions in the United States and Israel.