CHARITABLE FASHION
â– Calling all fashionistas: Donate your designer items for a good cause called Give To Save.
A joint project between local luxury fashion retailer Club21 and Unifem (the United Nations Development Fund for Women), it marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on Nov 25.
Drop off your designer goodies at 01-07 Forum from today till Sunday between 10am and 8pm.
The donated items will be sold at the Buy To Save charity sale to be held on Dec 12 and 13 at the InterContinental Singapore hotel.
All proceeds will go to Unifem’s efforts to end violence against women.
â– McDonald’s is also doing its part for charity on Sunday at IMM Building’s Garden Plaza on Level 3.
As part of its McHappy Day Charity Flea Market, the fast-food giant is selling limited-edition McHappy T-shirts (below) at $35 each.
There are six designs and only 23 pieces per design are available.
McDonald’s memorabilia and collectible items, including 10 sets of 35th Anniversary Hello Kitty Happy Meal toys and other past covetable collections, will be up for grabs.
All proceeds will go to the Ronald McDonald Children’s Charity, which helps sick children with financial needs.
CHRISTMAS SPREE
Get started on your Christmas shopping at Singapore Press Holdings’ (SPH) inaugural Christmas fair.
Organised by Sphere Exhibits, an SPH subsidiary, the Gifts & Electronics Fest @ Santa’s Village will be held at Suntec Convention Halls 401 and 402 from today to Sunday, 11am to 9pm.
Besides Christmas decorations, food and gifts, you can also pick up original works from local talent and design movement, Market Of Artists And Designers (Maad).
These include handmade floral hairpieces, vintage-style clutch bags, toys and graphic-printed tees.
Admission is free.
SPOILT FOR CHOICE
Shopping for new beauty brands? Robinsons’ beauty hall at The Centrepoint has just the thing for you.
The department store has added five brands, which were previously hard to find, to its beauty stable.
Drgeorgialee Skincare, the skin, hair and body range by home-grown aesthetics doctor Georgia Lee, The Health Club range of herbal health supplements by actress Jaclyn Tay and Californian organic skincare brand Juice Beauty have been unveiled.
The other two brands – Dr Brandt by American celebrity dermatologist Dr Fredric Brandt and Rodial from Britain, which uses natural ingredients – will be available from Dec 8.
BREAD WINNER A venture capitalist based in Singapore is one of five women honoured at this year’s Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards.
Filipino Kimberley Ong, 22, the Asia-Pacific laureate, developed a low-cost bread enriched with a type of algae called spirulina to combat malnutrition among children in the Philippines.
Launched in 2006, the award is organised by French jeweller Cartier and supported by the French-based Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society, France’s Insead Business School and American management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company.
It offers female entrepreneurs worldwide a platform to develop their business ideas for a global market.
This year, 15 projects from 12 countries were shortlisted from 820 applicants.
The best five, one each from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America, were named laureates.
Each gets a US$20,000 (S$27,702) grant, a year of coaching to develop and market her brand and product as well as an exclusive trophy designed by Cartier.
To apply for the 2010 edition, visit www. cartierwomensinitiative.com.
This article was first published in Urban, The Straits Times.
