Actually, I don’t know yet, may be this message is for deep pocket sheiks only, but I still would like to share it with you as well. Who knows, may be you were gathering money in order to help Victoria Beckham buy new Louboutin shoes?

Actually, I don’t know yet, may be this message is for deep pocket sheiks only, but I still would like to share it with you as well. Who knows, may be you were gathering money in order to help Victoria Beckham buy new Louboutin shoes?
No doubts, Kiev (the capital of Ukraine, is not a famous fashion capital or a city) but the 1st article in my category Fashion Weeks will start namely from it. Why? Not because my friends lives there or just ’cause I like this country, but because Ukrainian Fashion Week 2006 has reminded us about the existence of a very urgent and important problem, its name is AIDS/HIV. And it was a very important issue to view and Ukrainian Fashion Week 2007 was devoted to marriage and wedding days…
A tribute to the history… Famous Ukrainian designer Alexey Zalevsiky presented his spring-summer collection 2007 and it looked a little bit unusual: first of all, there were 50 model at the show – 5 of them have HIV. Then, clothes – a condom headdresses or a hair-do with syringes. Collection of Alexey is a very warm one and it conveys a lot of positive emotions. The Ukrainian ANTIAIDS Foundation has supported this action and project.

It was only a tribute and what about this one… This Ukrainian Fashion Week was the 10th one, it started in the capital of Ukraine and contained collections from both famous Ukrainian designers and new names, more than 40 designers were present.
The Fashion Week was opened with the models from Lilia Pustovit. By the way, not so far her clothes appeared in the boutiques of London and Tokyo. The catwalk started with the clothes in grey and black colours in combination with pink and yellow shoes. What about shoes? Ballerina pumps!

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Recently Italian brand Gucci decided to participate in a charitable event, devoted to the support of international organization UNICEF. This new cooperation will for sure become one of the most important and significant charitable projects in the history of the Fashion House.
In the period from the 15th of November to 31st of December, 25 percents from the whole Fashion House profit will be remitted to the charitable fund of UNICEF. This money will be spent onto the development and support of the public health services and education in such countries as: Malawi and Mozambique.
According to the official data, main Gucci contribution into the following charitable action is a creation of a special handbag (actually, it is a second birth of a popular model Indy). Rims of this new handbag and such decorative elements as: a flower and a tassel are made from light purple leather and main body of a handbag is made from a fabric with classical Gucci brand monograms.
Frida Giannini, a creative director of the Fashion House says, that, she adores this new version of a favourite handbag Indy. The handbag looks bright and tunes everybody to be happy and glad. And now the main concern, is, of course, a price of this masterpiece. First of all, this bag will have two variants – big and small one, and will cost, the 1st variant – $1990 and the 2nd – $2350, correspondently. Did you like it?

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