Designer Amanda Pearl Creates Handbags to Benefit World Wildlife Fund

Posted on: Nov 27

Amanda Pearl's collection of handbags is, for the most part, elegant, feminine, and quite unique. These vintage-inspired evenings bag designs might be fairly new to the fashion world in comparison to other brands, but they are quickly gaining popularity.

Since launching the first collection in 2008, Amanda Pearl's bags have been seen in the hands of red carpet stars like Freida Pinto and Blake Lively and even on the set of the always fashion-forward show Gossip Girl. Now the company is using the publicity to give something back.

After a trip to Africa that involved nursing a baby cheetah back to health after the death of its mother, the designer was inspired add a few styles to her new fall collection of bags in order to benefit the World Wildlife Fund, which is the "largest multinational conservation organization in the world" working to protect both nature and its inhabitants.

The three Amanda Pearl for WWF clutch bags feature the brand's popular Le Tout pouch design but each with a wildlife-inspired brocade material. The Tigris, Pardus, and Onca are all available on Amanda Pearl's website for $165 with 20% of the proceeds from sales going straight to the WWF.

[Source: Luxist]