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The 18th Annual Designer Christmas Trees From Les Sapins de Noel des Createurs, Part I.
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A Well Dressed Tree: 34 Fashion Designers Create Christmas Ornaments To Help Save The Garment Center.
The Made in NYC Designer Holiday Tree is an initiative to help Save the Garment Center. 30+ fashion and jewelry designers, including Anna Sui, Shoshanna Lonstein, Nicole Miller, Nanette Lepore, Malia Mills and Theia’s Don O’Neill have designed $30 ornaments that will be sold with all proceeds benefiting STGC, making good on a request by Caravan Stylist Studio’s Claudine DeSola, a longtime Garment Center supporter. Read more
Actress Tilda Swinton Kills It In These Fabulous Fashions Shots by Craig McDean
above: Tilda Swinton in Mark Fast
She may look a bit alien, but in this Tilda Swinton fashion editorial, the Scottish actress knows how to strike a pose. The muse for many fashion designers, you can see why in these stunning photos. AnOther Magazine has a flashback section in which they show the best bits from their archives and these images stopped me in my tracks. Read more
Infiniti Q50s Get Fashion Makeovers by Thom Browne and Zac Posen To Be Sold On Gilt.com
Two of the hottest designers in the high-fashion world, Zac Posen (who some of you may know from his red carpet gowns and/or his role on Project Runway) and Thom Browne, The New York fashion designer and recipient of the 2013 CDFA Menswear Designer Of The Year award, have each designed a special 2014 Infiniti Q50. Read more
A Look At The Punk Movement’s Impact On Fashion and Culture From The Met. 45 Images.
Organized by The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art is PUNK: Chaos to Couture. The exhibition, on view from May 9 through August 14, 2013 (preceded on May 6 by The Costume Institute Benefit Gala), examines punk’s impact on high fashion from the movement’s birth in the 1970s through its continuing influence today. Read more
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Artists, Fashion Designers and Jewelers Create Custom Dolls For Charity: Frimousses Designers for Darfur.
For the tenth year, UNICEF France’s Frimousses Creators bring together the greatest designers, artists and jewelers who put their talent toward helping UNICEF and children worldwide by creating one of a kind dolls that are auctioned with the proceeds going toward vaccinating children in Darfur.
The unique dolls (or in some cases, artworks inspired by dolls) were created by such well-known names and fashion houses as Prada, CHANEL, Gaultier, Gucci, Missoni, Issey Miyake, Olivia Putnam, Philip Pasqua, Mathieu Lehanneur, Dolce and Gabbana and many more. The pieces range from couture dressed Barbies to lithographs, knit dolls to robotic sculptures. To show the path of hope and gather people to believe in tomorrow, this year’s theme was “Yes Future!” for which dynamic, lively, modern dolls and art works are the ambassadors of hope and carry the colors of life.
Here’s a look at many of the other dolls from the project.
Anne Fontaine:
Agatha Ruiz de la Prada:
Ara Starck:
Agnes b.:
CHANEL:
Chantal Thomas:
Chloe:
Christian Dior:
Dolce and Gabbana:
Elie Saab:
François Clerc:
Frimousse de Coeur:
Gucci:
Issey Miyake:
Jay Ahr:
Jean-Paul Gaultier:
Jerome l’Huillier:
Jean Claude Jitrois:
Lorenz Baumer:
Mac Chaoul:
Mathieu Lehanneur:
Missoni:
Nicolas Saint Gregoire:
Olivia Putnam:
Prada:
Rallye des Princesses:
Valerie Attinelli:
Vincent Darre:
Yulia Yanina:
See all the dolls here.
What Went for The Most Money:
The Artcurial auction, which took place on December 3rd, 2012 at Petit Palais, raised $251,942. The top five pieces which garnered the most money for the cause were:
Lot 17. Carlos CRUZ-DIEZ Couleur Additive Denise B 6/8 2007, sold for $23,613:
Lot 16. DICE KAYEK Poupée Trésor « Lumière » June 2012 // Paris, sold for $16,557:
Lot 21. Claudine DRAI – Galerie de Noirmont, Untitled, August 2012, sold for $8,915:
Lot 5. Philippe PASQUA, Aora 2011 sold for $8,278:
Lot 71. TORRENTE Shina June, 2012 // Paris, sold for $7,642:
The individual results of each lot in the auction can be found here.
In ten years, the auctions of Frimousses Designers have raised over $ 1.5 million, allowing the fund UNICEF vaccination campaigns and saving hundreds of thousands of children.
For this 10th anniversary, UNICEF hopes to ensure the children of Darfur right to be healthy and to grow and thrive, protected from diseases such as measles.
If you want to support the actions of UNICEF for children in Darfur, you can send your donations by check *:
Frimousses Designers for Darfur
UNICEF France
3 rue Duguay Trouin
75006 Paris