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Thursday, February 22, 2007

Fashion Designers for Darfur: Tick, Tick, Tick…

Posted by Marjorie Skinner on Thu, Feb 22 at 1:56 PM

New York Fashion Week is long over, but you can still get in on some of the action. One of the runway events was Designers for Darfur, which banded together designers who collectively showed 60 outfits, which are being auctioned off on Ebay to fund a donation to the Save Darfur Coalition seeking to end genocide there. Well, there are only, like, FOUR HOURS until the bidding closes, and I just went and checked out the Ebay site, and there are actually some bargains there. A Donna Karan dress has the high bid at just over $700, but smaller designer finds are going for far less than retail. It’s expeciallly good news if you look good in yellow:

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This cute(sy) Luella dress is only up to $200.

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This is a horribly grainy Ebay photo of another little yellow dress, this one designed by Jeremy Laing, a designer who’s on all the cool kids’ “to watch” list, and it’s only at $178.

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This is a (also poorly photographed) Mike & Chris leather jacket and dress. Not sure about that dress, but I love their leather jackets, and I’ve seen the jackets alone retail for almost twice the $510 it’s going for now.

Oh, and all of the dresses come included with a pair of Steve Madden shoes, the cutest of which I think are the ones that come with the Luella dress. But yeah, you know, they’re just… Steve Maddens.

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