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Black Tie International:
The Giving Planet
Fundraiser |
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Actress and author Mariel
Hemingway, organic foods
champion, will host a charity
fashion show on Saturday,
October 2 together with her
partner Bobby Williams. The
event will raise funds for The
Giving Planet, a non-profit that
engages young people around the
world to share their stories
through digital media; the group
uses technology with young
people to foster a new level of
cultural understanding.
Designers will share their latest looks on the runway. Appropriately, the
event will feature organic
appetizers
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FASHION DESIGNERS HIT THE RUNWAY FOR
GLOBAL UNITY
The Giving Planet Fundraiser on October
2 Spotlights
Emerging Clothing Designers & Global
Education Initiative
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NEW YORK
Power couple Mariel Hemingway and Bobby Williams
will co-host
“Unity in Style,” an October
2 charity fashion show and live auction benefiting The
Giving Planet, a non-profit that engages young
people around the world to share their stories through
digital media to foster a new level of cultural
understanding. The event will showcase the latest creations
of designers EDUN, Jennifer Chun, Robert James, Emily
Sinnott, Sucker Jeans, Taashki, Katherine Kim, Anna Lassiter
and Lucinda Robinson. “Unity in Style,” which runs from 6 pm
to 8 pm, takes place at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan. Actress and UNICEF Ambassador
Téa Leoni serves
as honorary board chairperson.
Styles on display at the
event, which will feature photographs by The Giving Planet
teens from
Ghana, Kenya and Uganda,
will include jewelry by Nancy Melet and silk shawl creations
by Suzanne Silk. The Claudia Eliaza Quartet, a jazz
ensemble, will provide live entertainment, and guests will
enjoy a Ghanaian dance performance. Inspired by organic
foods champion and author Hemingway, the event caterer,
Great Performances, will offer organic appetizers.
Metropolitan Pavilion is
located at 123
W. 18th Street. The
event will take place in The Gallery on the 4th
Floor. The doors open at 6 p.m. sharp and the show starts
promptly. Tickets (advanced sales only) are $175 online at
www.thegivingplanet.org/unityinstyle/.
Sponsors for Unity in Style
include EDUN LIVE, W.J. Deutsch & Sons, Ltd., Meaningful
Meetings, King Fish Media, MyVBO, Inkshot Pictures, Hollis
Interactive, Taashki, Groovy Green Livin’, Sarah Martin
Photography, H20PRO Shop, Blades Natural Beauty and Surface
Hair Products.
About
The Giving Planet:
THE GIVING PLANET is a
global education program teaching peace building skills,
conscious global citizenship and multicultural awareness to
teens. Using meditation, art and technology in its
workshops, THE GIVING PLANET connects teens for ongoing
dialogue worldwide. The non-profit’s new fall programs are
taking place in
South Korea, New York City, Boston and
Japan. In 2011, the group will begin
programs in Argentina,
Nicaragua and Haiti.
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joyce@blacktiemagazine.com |
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