This Article is From Nov 12, 2010

Tyra Banks supports charity auction

Tyra Banks supports charity auction

Highlights

  • Supermodel Tyra Banks will donate one of her designer outfits to augment enough money for electrification jobs in Rwanda and Haiti.
  • Banks, 37, will do the good deed along with other fashion muses including Brooke Shields and Elle Macpherson in collaboration with an online auction site, Contactmusic reported.
  • "We have asked about 30 top models, including Tyra Banks, Eva Herzigova, Brooke Shields, Elle Macpherson and Christy Turlington to donate 'one frickin dress' they have worn on the red carpet," organiser Elletra Wiedemann has said.
  • Designer pieces up for grabs feature a Bally dress worn by Christy Turlington, a pink Ralph Lauren outfit, a white Roberto Cavalli gown and a gold gown crafted by Michael Kors and seen on Brooke Shields.
  • "These gorgeous dresses will be auctioned off on Charitybuzz and the money will go towards buying solar panels for clinics that currently have zero access or very limited access to electricity in Rwanda and Haiti," Wiedemann said hoping to raise at least $ 100,000.
  • The collaboration between OneFrickinDay charity and online auction site Charitybuzz is part of the Model Behaviour initiative for this cause.
London: Supermodel Tyra Banks will donate one of her designer outfits to augment enough money for electrification jobs in Rwanda and Haiti.

Banks, 37, will do the good deed along with other fashion muses including Brooke Shields and Elle Macpherson in collaboration with an online auction site, Contactmusic reported.

"We have asked about 30 top models, including Tyra Banks, Eva Herzigova, Brooke Shields, Elle Macpherson and Christy Turlington to donate 'one frickin dress' they have worn on the red carpet," organiser Elletra Wiedemann has said.

Designer pieces up for grabs feature a Bally dress worn by Christy Turlington, a pink Ralph Lauren outfit, a white Roberto Cavalli gown and a gold gown crafted by Michael Kors and seen on Brooke Shields.

"These gorgeous dresses will be auctioned off on Charitybuzz and the money will go towards buying solar panels for clinics that currently have zero access or very limited access to electricity in Rwanda and Haiti," Wiedemann said hoping to raise at least $ 100,000.

The collaboration between OneFrickinDay charity and online auction site Charitybuzz is part of the Model Behaviour initiative for this cause.

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