Some of Versace’s up-and-coming handbag designers met recently at the Whitney Art Museum in New York City. The designing brainstorm session wasn’t quite the scene that you might be picturing right now, though.
With markers and papers in hand, Donatella Versace joined several kids from the Starlight Children’s Foundation for the first Art Unites event, a program sponsored by the fashion label and the Whitney that will provide art supplies to hundreds of children from Starlight as well as the One Foundation in China.
The lucky teens involved in the art project at the Whitney the other night will have the honor of seeing their hand-drawn pictures on Versace handbags. The public can support Art Unites by purchasing the designs at the label’s boutiques and Gilt Groupe in the near future. All proceeds from the $200 totes will benefit Starlight and One Foundation.
“We have to give back when we’re successful,” Donatella told The Huffington Post. She noted that every time she’s with children, “they’re smiling and so happy just to see me. They don’t expect anything from me … and I chose art for the project because art is, for me, an expression of emotion.”
[Source: Huffington Post]
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