Fashionistas to walk virtual runway
A YouTube special streaming Friday stages a virtual fashion show featuring a slew of homebound celebrities, including Kim Kardashian West, Karlie Kloss, Ashley Graham and Hailey Bieber, modeling clothes out of their closets in an effort to raise awareness and funds to fight the coronavirus.
The event, dubbed Fashion Unites, is the brainchild of Carine Roitfeld, founder of the fashion and beauty magazine CR Fashion Book. It will benefit amfAR Against COVID-19.
YouTube’s head of fashion and beauty, Derek Blasberg, will host the half-hour program, which is described as a “self-filmed fashion show — captured by a diverse range of models wearing creations pulled from their personal wardrobe and styled remotely by Roitfeld and her team.” There also will be behind-the-scenes looks and “messages of hope and gratitude by designers and contributors for the real-life heroes who risk their lives fighting the pandemic on the front lines every day.”
Fashion designers in the house will include Diane von Furstenberg, Alexander Wang, Virgil Abloh, Silvia Fendi, Fernando Garcia and Heron Preston.
Fashion Unites will stream on YouTube with the exact URL to be posted at the event’s website, crrunwayxamfar.org.
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