To Haiti with Love: Help the CFDA Aid Earthquake Victims
The fashion industry is known for their quick responses, great PR, and knack for handling stress and change well. Their response to the earthquake in Haiti was no exception.
The CFDA, (Counsel of Fashion Designers of America) met shortly after the earthquake to brainstorm specific ways the industry could help. Members such as Diane von Furstenberg, Tory Burch, Ralph Lauren, and Theory’s President and CEO Andrew Rosen, along with many others, came up with a plan to reach out to those affected in Haiti.
Their first response is a T-shirt designed by Peter Arnell. The shirt, pictured below, is selling for $25 at a long list of stores as well as online. Proceeds will go to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.
Product Information: Shirt Designed by Peter Arnell, Pants and Flats -Tory Burch, Jacket -Theory (both available at ShopBop), Necklace -Topshop and Bracelets -Monsoon
Before the earthquake, Haiti had quite a few garment factories, and now they are going to need those jobs more then ever before in rebuilding their country. For those of you in the NYC area during fashion week, wearing one of the Haiti shirts is an especially great way to show your support to the CFDA and Haiti. Also, it can send a powerful message to designers who have influence over Haitian employment opportunities.
Your Impact
Whether you buy a shirt or not, let the CFDA and its designers know that you support this great effort by writing on their Facebook page (search CFDA) or sending them a message on Twitter.
If you do choose to buy a shirt please feel free to send us a picture of how you choose to style it! We’d love to feature your look on College Fashion!
Posted on on February 2, 2010 / Filed Under: Fashion News / Tags: CFDA, Charities, Charity, Haiti, Tory Burch
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Jess
While I feel bad for those affected by the earthquake in Haiti, I really wish American’s would focus on problems and people being affected by things in their own country. American’s always ban together to help another country in need (which is one reason that makes the US so great), but only in an event of a tragedy (9/11, Hurricane Katrina) do we focus that sort of compassion on ourselves. It’s amazing when people do decide to reach out and help others, but why can’t it be to help our own? With the economy as it is, more and more people are in debt, homeless, etc. and it’s not a result of their poor choices like many people like to think. I really hope after it’s not “cool” anymore to support/donate to Haiti, they use that compassion towards fellow Americans.
lisa
How about giving some money to an organisation, and then buy a t-shirt… the you know how much money will be given
Cate
Where is a good place to find one of these tshirts via the internet?
Zephyr - CF Editor
Jess – While I agree that we can always do more to make things better in our own country, we shouldn’t ignore helping others in favor of helping ourselves. There’s no reason helping Haiti means we can’t help people in our own country, so why not focus our compassion everywhere we can?
Lisa – Giving to organizations is also a wonderful way to help! I think the idea behind the t-shirt is just that you get something else in return, whereas if you donate money, you don’t. It’s just an incentive to get people to help.
Cate – The shirts haven’t been released yet, but you can go to cfda.com for details – you should be able to buy it on that website soon!