Madonna and Gucci Join Efforts Again

Nov 30, 2007 | Category: Watches and Fashion

Madonna and Gucci are two iconic names in the world of fashion. Together they represent one of the most successful and enduring dream teams in the world. It is not a secret that the singer regularly appears wearing Gucci on stage and screen.

The Madonna-Gucci story started in 1999 when the star appeared wearing a black leather Gucci jacket. She told Larry King that one of her strongest perks was getting free clothes, while Gucci is well aware that the Madonna-effect has seen goods of the brand sell out overnight.

In 2008 the famous Italian fashion house and the celebrated American pop star will join efforts again. This time the team will to raise funds for the children of Malawi, the impoverished nation in southern Africa, with over one million orphans suffering from poverty.

Gucci will hold a fund-raising event with dinner, a musical performance and a party to mark the opening of the brand's largest store in the world. It will be called the New York Fifth Avenue flagship. The event will take place on February 6.

Gucci's creative director, Frida Giannini, will co-chair the fund-raising event dedicated to Raising Malawi and UNICEF. The money will be raised to support African children orphaned by HIV/AIDS and to raise public awareness.

Besides Madonna and Giannini, on the list of the event's co-chairs you will find Salma Hayek, Demi Moore, Lucy Liu, Adrien Brody, Arpad Busson, Ashton Kutcher and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Madonna and her husband, Guy Ritchie, still cherish hopes to adopt David Banda from Malawi. The boy's father sent him to an orphanage after his mother's death.

Comments to: Madonna and Gucci Join Efforts Again

February 19th, 2008 12:14 by Jacinth
It is always good to want to help others! Just make sure that your motives are true. I agree with Christine that while you are helping in Africa, perhaps you celebrities and designers could help in America as well. Spread the wealth around as far as you would spread your movies, albums, and clothing lines. Now that's helping without making a name for yourself and for having no strings attached! Boy, it will give you a warm, fuzzy feeling in your heart without any "perks" nor photo opportunities! Humility is the key.

January 29th, 2008 05:33 by Cris Mendez
Its a big team -up to raise funds for less fortunate people in the world such as mulawi...i hope celebs and artists will do humanitarian works such as like this...

December 29th, 2007 01:22 by Christine Berry
I feel that the pair may just be pushing the envelope a little too hard hoping that people will open their pocketbooks. It is a good cause to help the million children improverished in their country dying of Aids, malnutrition and the ravishes of war. I just feel that children are starving in America. Children are being abused and are dying of Aids in America. Madonna and Gucci should push the envelope and help our children here in America first before going off to save some other countrys' dilemma first.

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