Missoni Bracelet for OrphanAid Africa, Charity of the Day

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Apr 6th 2008 at 10:02AM

The beautiful Margherita Missoni who is part of the famed fashion family, has worked with jewelry designer Ileana Makri to create a special bracelet for a worthy cause. The new rose gold and diamond bracelet will benefit OrphanAid Africa, an organization that helps vulnerable children in Ghana. The organization tries to help children at risk and works with community outreach programs and is creating a model children's home.

The bracelet will be available at Jeffrey New York, Colette, YOOX.COM, Matches, and 10 Corso Como next month. It will retail from $640 for the a limited edition, all-diamond bracelet while a single diamond version will retail for $240. Damon Dash and Rachel Roy are also working on a capsule collection of products to benefit the charity including ProKeds sneakers available in six different styles of African-inspired prints. The charity also accepts direct donations.

[via Fashion Week Daily]

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