Fashionable Awareness?
The Australian (Monday 27/02/2006) reports that Sydney fashion designer Jayson Brunsdon has just been appointed a UNICEF ambassador.Mr Brunsdon said "I will help raise awareness of children suffering HIV-AIDS in Africa, and also raise some money for them."
This is good, Brunsdon has a plan... the part that I found a little disturbing, and I don't know why (which explains why I am posting this), was his quote on the match of fashion and UNICEF...
"Fashion runs on the idea that you don't need another dress but you want another dress, we all have our $2000 Luella handbags and Chloe Paddington bags, but if everyone could reach inside those $2000 bags and pull out a few dollars for UNICEF, that would be a start."
First off, I didn't know you could get a $2000 handbag, but then again I'm not the most fashionable of people...
The fashionable people I do know have sworn to me that they do not have a $2000 handbag...
If you own a $2000 handbag is it not logical to assume that you could afford more than just a "few dollars" to a good cause...
Brunsdon intends to send volunteers around his Australian Fashion Week show in Sydney wearing limited edition T-shirts to collect donations.
I think what offends me most is that he's not sending the limited edition shirts to those that need it most, the millions of children throughout the world that have no clothing.
But then again, as I have already mentioned, I'm not that fashionable...
posted by Mark @ 10:08 PM
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