Live Auction Raises Over £1million
In Aid of the White Ribbon Alliance for Haiti

Naomi Campbell’s Fashion For Relief™, the spectacular charity fashion show and auction, wowed London and the world at the official British Fashion Council’s London Fashion Week tent on the 18th February.

The unique charity event created by Naomi Campbell was held in aid of the White Ribbon Alliance to help rebuild the healthcare system for mothers and babies and raised over £1million in the event’s live auction alone.

The evening’s highest auction lot was for a bespoke ‘Naomi for Haiti’ Lotus Evora won by Naomi’s partner Vladislav Doronin for a staggering £320,000.

The stunning fundraising catwalk show, sponsored by luxury jeweler Stephen Webster, opened with a performance by soul singer Beverley Knight and a special tribute to the late Alexander McQueen by Naomi, Kate Moss and Annabelle Neilson.

A throng of celebrities from the world of music, fashion, film and TV featured in the show including Dame Shirley Bassey, Girls Aloud stars Kimberley Walsh and Nicola Roberts, Amanda Holden, Eva Herzigova, Alexandra Burke, Jamelia, Beverley Knight, Erin O’Connor, Jo Wood, Yasmin Le Bon, Pixie Geldof and Sinitta dazzled the catwalk in glamorous outfits and sparkling array of Jewellery by Stephen Webster.

Leading the men who walked the catwalk in designer suits, Ronnie Corbett stole the show alongside cricket star Andrew Flintoff and TV star Larry Lamb. Joining them were James Corden, David Walliams, Arsenal player Cesc Fabregas and Piers Morgan who walked with Naomi.

Designers including D&G, Marc Jacobs, Jaeger, Victoria Beckham and John Galliano donated the clothes for the show and Vivienne Westwood designing a jaw-dropping gold sequined dress worn by Naomi Campbell. The clothes featured in the show will be sold on Net-A-Porter from 15th March.

To add to the tremendous support already received, Lotus will continue its support by auctioning a remaining five “Naomi for Haiti” Lotus Evoras on http://www.naomiforhaiti.com from today until 28th February. In addition, Vivienne Westwood exclusive T-Shirt for Fashion For Relief will be available at Westfield Pop-Up Shop from the 19th to the 21st February 2010 and at Vivienne Westwood stores on Conduit Street and World’s End.

Funds raised at Fashion For Relief™ will go towards making sure mothers and babies
are at the heart of Haiti’s new health system, and to ensuring that this essential work continues in other countries where women are at risk of dying when they give birth.

Fashion For Relief™ continues to raise money for the cause via donations and an online auction of the clothes modelled on the catwalk on http://www.net-a-porter.com from 15th March.

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Notes to Editor:

Fashion For Relief ™
Fashion For Relief was set up in 2005 to demonstrate the kind of contributions the fashion community can make to charitable causes. The first Fashion For Relief ™ show was held in New York City that year during their fashion week, and raised more than $1million dollars for the Hurricane Katrina relief. In 2007 the event, held in London, raised an amazing £1million for the Rotary Flood & Disaster Appeal. In 2008, Naomi teamed up with Sarah Brown for the first time to host an unforgettable Fashion For Relief™ raising thousands for The White Ribbon Alliance and raising awareness of the charity. Last year Fashion For Relief™ travelled to Mumbai, India and Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania where the shows featured local models and celebrities. The most recent Fashion For Relief™ took place in New York on February 12th, 2010.

Past participants and supporters include Beyonce, Estelle, Boy George, Cheryl Cole, Cilla Black, Christian Slater, Claudia Schiffer, Faye Dunaway, Iman, Jamelia, Jessica Stam, Kate Moss, Ronan Keating Kelly Osbourne, Lily Cole, P. Diddy, Princess Beatrice, Rio Ferdinand, The Duchess of York, Joaquin Cortes and Tyson Beckford and many more.

Women in emergency situations
The particular vulnerability of women and girls in emergency and crisis situations is frequently neglected during initial efforts to provide food, water and shelter. In the aftermath of a disaster or conflict, pregnancy-related deaths http://www.unfpa.org/emergencies/motherhood.htm and incidences of rape and sexual violence http://www.unfpa.org/emergencies/violence soar. It is a sad reality that in the aftermath of a disaster, women and girls’ are extremely vulnerable sexual coercion and violence. In Haiti the breakdown of law and order and growing civil unrest places women and girls at significantly increased risk.

Young people, especially girls and young women, become more vulnerable to HIV infection http://www.unfpa.org/emergencies/preventing.htm
and sexual exploitation. Many women lose access to family planning services, exposing them to unwanted pregnancy, and in cases of rape, access to emergency contraception and counselling. 7000 women will give birth in the next 4 weeks

There are an estimated 37,000 pregnant women among those directly affected, according to the United Nations Population Fund, 7000 of whom will give birth in the next month. As hospitals struggle to meet the needs of the thousands of wounded, maternity wards have given way to surgeries and pregnant women are forced to give birth in unsanitary conditions.

IPPF Haiti: PROFAMIL
IPPF’s Haitian Member Association, PROFAMIL, is based in the communities most affected by the earthquake and able to give help immediately. For more than 20 years PROFAMIL has provided specialist women’s health care and primary health care to the communities it serves, and is trusted by those communities.

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