Capri Holdings Donates $3 Million to Coronavirus Causes

Capri Holdings, which owns Michael Kors, Versace, and Jimmy Choo, has announced that together its three brands will donate more than $3 million to aid those impacted by the coronavirus. “Our hearts and souls go out to those who are working on the front lines to help the world combat the COVID-19 pandemic,” says chairman and chief executive John D. Idol.

The Michael Kors company will divide a total donation of $2 million—$1 million from the company and $1 million from founder Michael Kors himself—between three New York–based organizations. NYU Langone Health and NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital will each receive a $750,000 donation, while God’s Love We Deliver and Vogue and the CFDA’s A Common Thread will each receive $250,000.

Versace, which already donated $1 million to the Chinese Red Cross Foundation in February, will donate an additional $400,000 to Milan’s San Raffaele Hospital and $100,000 to the Camera Della Moda to supply ventilators and medical equipment to Italian hospitals. In London, Jimmy Choo will donate $250,000 to the NHS and to the WHO’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund.

Altogether, the companies’ donations will aid people around the world, echoing the ways fashion has banded together globally to combat this crisis. “This is clearly a time for people to come together in every way and on every level, because we are all stronger in our united resolve,” says Idol.

Source: Vogue

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Heavenly Couture: The Met Gala's Holy theme for 2018

Left: El Greco, Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara, circa 1600. Right: Cristobal Balenciaga evening coat, fall 1954–55. CreditMetropolitan Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum/digital composite by Katerina Jebb

Left: Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis, Byzantine, 500-550, with modern restoration, marble and glass. Right: Ensemble, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana for Dolce & Gabbana, fall 2013–14. CreditMetropolitan Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art/digital composite by Katerina Jebb

Left: Manuscript leaf with scenes from the life of Saint Francis of Assisi, circa 1320-42. Right: Madame Grès evening dress, 1969. CreditMetropolitan Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art/digital composite by Katerina Jebb

Left: Byzantine processional cross, ca. 1000-1050. Right: Gianni Versace evening dress, fall 1997–98.CreditMetropolitan Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art/digital composite by Katerina Jebb

Left: Follower of Lippo Memmi, Saint Peter, mid–14th-century. Right: Elsa Schiaparelli evening dress, summer 1939. CreditMetropolitan Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art/digital composite by Katerina Jebb

For many, Vogue Magazine is a fashion bible so it seems only fitting that The Metropolitan Museum of Art's next big Costume Institute exhibit is titled, "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination."  While it may seem controversial for The Met to take on Catholicism, the theme has more to do with fashion design's interpretation of religion and its use of religious iconography within the world of style and couture.

Andrew Bolton, curator of the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, who has worked closely with the Vatican on the exhibit had this to say about it: "The focus is on a shared hypothesis about what we call the Catholic imagination and the way it has engaged artists and designers and shaped their approach to creativity, as opposed to any kind of theology or sociology. Beauty has often been a bridge between believers and unbelievers.”

Mr. Bolton traveled to Rome eight times before the Vatican "signed off" on the exhibit. The Sistine Chapel sacristy Office for the Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff gave the "blessing" for this show to occur. They were receptive to the idea from the start but needed to be cautious and respectful of the Vatican garments that would be on loan to The Met, especially since some of the pieces are still in use by the Pope.

Along with Anna Wintour, Mr. and Mrs. Schwarzman, Donatella Versace, Amal Clooney and Rihanna will be the honorary chairs opening night of the Met Gala.

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Atelier Versace Fall 2017 Couture

Versace’s update resulted in major, majorevening—a bravura performance of high-octane, super-sexy, and exquisitely and inventively worked looks, all bronze metallic scale embroideries, silver chains suspended in cobweb-like formations, and an embellishment that looked like crystal but which was actually beads faced with silver leaf. Vogue

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Versace Dylan Blue: A fragrance & short film by Bruce Weber starring Gigi Hadid

Versace and Bruce Weber exude sex and sensuality. Add super model Gigi Hadid to the mix with a group of hard bodied adonises in suits and underwear and what you get à la Weber, is a sizzling hot fashion film with homoerotic undertones. Versace released the short film to coincide with the launch of their latest men's fragrance, Dylan Blue. The film is narrated in Italian with English subtitles, but frankly speaking, who gives a damn about reading anything when their so much visual stimulation on the screen.

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