Eva Mendes was a proponent of looking good and feeling good last night as the guest of honor at the 2nd Annual Art of Elysium charity soiree.
The event, called Heaven, was a night of fashion, music, art, design, as well as a worthwhile children's charity. The 34 year-old actress was given the Spirit of Elysium Award for her efforts to bring art to hospitalized kids.
"What they do for us and how they help us, it's really interesting to see that they enrich our lives," Mendes told ET. "They're the strong ones, they make us stronger. It's such a beautiful exchange of spirit through the arts, it's just lovely."
At the close of this tumultuous year for fashion retailers and the entire economy in general, it's refreshing to hear fashion for the greater good still perseveres.
The “Fashion Against AIDS” collection has been designed to spread awareness about HIV/AIDS and will be available at H&M in early February. H&M has teamed up with Designers Against AIDS to launch a collection of clothes and accessories designed by celebs like Timbaland, Good Charlotte, and Rihanna.
“...I love that H&M is providing a fashionable and easy way for young people all over the world to get involved in this worthy cause,” Rihanna said in a statement on Thursday.
The designs come in varying styles displaying both loud,bold statements to more subtle messages to suit all fashion tastes. Each piece is made from 100 per cent certified organic cotton and carries a special hang tag that reads: “This might be the most important piece of clothing you’ve ever had your hands on.”
Blimey. The Brits always come up with the coolest ideas. Especially when it comes to dreaming up creative concepts to combine fashion and charity. Fashion Favours, the UK's latest philanthropic fashion initiative that's touting sustainable-chic clothing for the greater good, is no exception.
The newly launched Fashion Favours initiative involves shredding the old clothes of celebrities to raise money for charity, while at the same time, persuading Brits to recycle their unwanted threads.
Kate Winslet’s suit and Twiggy’s jeans are just a couple of the celebrity cast-offs that have been cut up and customized by young volunteers to create Fashion Favours, a project that aims to highlight the issues surrounding throwaway clothing.
The items that have been created will be auctioned on fashionfavours.com and will also be part of a massive fashion show being held in London on World AIDS Day, December 1. Proceeds from the auction and the show will go to Body and Soul, a charity that works with young people affected by HIV in the UK.
DesignerLaundry gives the creative geniuses behind the Fashion Favours an enthusiastic "Oi!" The feel-good benefit is two-fold: Wear a piece of your favorite celeb for charity and simultaneously save the planet! Rubbish never sounded cool.
