Charity Projects
Solidarity has no boundaries: in this day and age, a young international trendsetter and an historic fashion house of “Made in Italy” fame can come together to aid a non-profit organization benefiting children in Ghana, all coming to a head at a special launch event in the fashion capital of America.
yoox.com hosted this event on November 15th at the Bowery Hotel in New York City to celebrate Margherita Maccapani Missoni’s new capsule collection for M Missoni, created specially to benefit OrphanAid Africa, and online exclusively on yoox.com. Read more…
“Africa is a fascinating and unique continent but also an unlucky one that needs our help,” says Margherita Maccapani Missoni, during a yoox.com exclusive video interview where she describes her latest charity project – a capsule collection for M Missoni in support of OrphanAid Africa, a non-profit group that provides assistance to orphans and children in Ghana.
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yoox.com supports Vogue Fashion’s Night Out which is landing in Tokyo to help revitalize Japan’s fashion industry and show its support for a country that last March was struck by a devastating earthquake and tsunami. The New Yooxer met up with Mitsuko Watanabe, editor in chief of Vogue Japan, to find out more about the project. Read more…
Edgy fashion and groundbreaking art come together for charity with “atelier incurve exhibition in tokyo 2010”. Avant-garde Japanese designers such as Undercover, sacai luck and HYSTERIC GLAMOUR have teamed up with the intellectually-impaired artists of Atelier Incurve to form the art exhibition. The result? A unique series of t-shirt series featuring the work of the Atelier’s self-taught artists. Read more…
Since being established in 1989, Maison Martin Margiela has presented its prêt-à-porter collections of dresses, accessories, and artwork with the label “Artisanal”, or “handmade”. Like in a virtual museum, a selection of Menswear and Womenswear from the Maison Martin Margiela Artisanal Collection is now available online, exclusively on yoox.com.
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