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US fashion industry pushes for extension of Haiti trade programme

US congressman Greg Murphy, alongside other representatives, has introduced a bipartisan legislation calling for the 10-year extension of the country’s trade programme with Haiti, a bill that leading fashion industry figures are adamantly supporting. The HOPE/HELP trade programmes, which are set to expire in September 2025, intend to help...

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IFC invests 4 million dollars in Haitian garment industry

The Haitian clothing sector, employing more than 29,000 workers and accounting for 90 percent of the country's exports and about 10 percent of its GDP, just got lucky: the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, announced last week that it decided to invest 4 million US dollars in garment maker The Willbes...

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Haiti artisans embrace ethical fashion

Diameter, width, thickness -- nothing is left to chance as Brazilian jewelry designer Ana Suassuna trains Haitian artisans how to shape cow horns into fashionable bracelets. As sanders whir in the background, Suassuna surveys the work being done in a small studio in the heart of bustling Port-au-Prince. "They know better than me how to work with...

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Westfield to host "Greatest Fashion Show on Earth" event

Westfield London is to host the "The Greatest Fashion Show on Earth" from 18-20 March. In partnership with fashion supplement Sunday Times Style, the three day event is held collaboration with the British Fashion Council to support Naomi Campbell's Fashion For Relief Campaign and the White Ribbon Alliance to raise funds for mothers and babies in...

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Fashion For Relief London

Naomi Campbell brought world-famous supermodels, singers, actors and vips together to raise money for the White Ribbon Alliance and Haiti's women and children victims with her Fashion For Relief charity in London. Showing a covetable collection of dresses donated by leading fashion houses, each piece was later auctioned to raise money. An...

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Scarlett Johansson designs for Haiti

In conjunction with Spanish retailer Mango, actress Scarlett Johansson designed an exclusive handbag to help raise funds for the victims of the Haiti earthquake. The Haiti handbag will be available at over 1,390 Mango stores worldwide from March. All profits will be donated to Oxfam. The print on the handbag represents the ancient cartography of...

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Esprit helps the children of Haiti

Expressing its sympathy to the people in Haiti, lifestyle label Esprit will host an international fundraising campaign on Saturday 23rd in Esprit retail stores. For each purchase made, Esprit will donate one euro to the victims of the Haiti earthquake. The total amount raised will go to SOS Children's Villages Haiti via the ‘Esprit Cares Trust’...