Luxury fashion group, Capri Holdings, which includes Michael Kors,
Versace and Jimmy Choo, has announced that its collective brands and their
founders are donating more than 3 million US dollars in support of Covid-19
relief efforts.
“Our hearts and souls go out to those who are working on the front lines
to help the world combat the COVID-19 pandemic,” said John D. Idol,
chairman and chief executive officer of Capri Holdings Limited in a
statement. “We thank them for their remarkable dedication and courage and
want to support them and the hospitals where they work. We also aim to
strengthen organisations dedicated to helping the community.”
Idol added: “This is clearly a time for people to come together in every
way and on every level, because we are all stronger in our united resolve.
I want to thank Donatella and Michael for their personal commitments.”
In London, luxury footwear and accessories brand Jimmy Choo will donate
500,000 US dollars to support relief efforts both in the brand’s home
country of the UK and also globally.
The donation will see the NHS COVID-19 Urgent Appeal by NHS Charities
Together receiving 250,000 US dollars to support hospital staff, volunteers
and others on the front line caring for Covid-19 patients.
While the World Health Organisation’s Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund
will receive 250,000 US dollars, enabling countries to prepare for and
respond to the Covid-19 crisis, and supporting medical professionals and
patients worldwide by providing critical aid and supplies.
Jimmy Choo creative director, Sandra Choi said on social media: “Our
thoughts and prayers are with the teams of doctors, nurses, scientists and
volunteers at the frontline working day and night to fight this pandemic in
our hometown of London and across the world.”
Michael Kors donates to coronavirus relief efforts
In New York, the Michael Kors brand will donate 1 million US dollars to
support local relief efforts, while founder Michael Kors and John Idol will
make personal contributions of an additional 1 million US dollars towards
these efforts.
“I have lived in New York all my life—the city has been my home for over
40 years and it’s where I founded my business,” said Michael Kors on social
media. “Among the many things that I love about New York and New Yorkers is
their strength and unwavering resilience in times of crisis. For a city as
big as it is, there’s always been a strong sense of community. It’s
heartbreaking to see what is happening here in my hometown, which is
currently an epicentre of the virus, and the impact this outbreak is having
on people in our city and around the world.”
The combined 2 million US dollar donation will be distributed to a
number of organisations to support relief efforts in New York City. Two of
the city’s largest hospital systems, NYU Langone Health and New
York-Presbyterian Hospital, will each receive 750,000 US dollars to support
emergency patient care, financial relief to frontline medical staff, and
related clinical and diagnostic research.
While God’s Love We Deliver will receive 250,000 US dollars to fund
meals to be delivered to the city’s most vulnerable individuals living with
serious illness across all five boroughs. The organisation is a longtime
philanthropic partner and beneficiary of support from Michael Kors.
In addition, A Common Thread, CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund for Covid-19
Relief will receive 250,000 US dollars to provide financial relief for
small businesses in the fashion community affected by the pandemic.
Kors, added: “I commend everyone working on the frontlines in our health
care centres and thank you for your dedication to helping others.”
Versace makes Covid-19 donation
Meanwhile, in Milan, Versace is donating a total of 500,000 US dollars
to support local efforts in response to the pandemic. This is in addition
to the 1 million yen that Versace donated in February to support the
Chinese Red Cross Foundation.
The additional funds will support the San Raffaele Hospital, which will
receive 400,000 US dollars to provide critical aid to the hospital’s
intensive care unit for patients battling the Covid-19 virus, while 100,000
US dollars will be donated to Camera Nazionale Della Moda Italiana for the
‘Italia, we are with you’ project, an initiative to donate ventilators and
medical equipment to the country’s hospitals.
Last month, Donatella Versace, chief creative officer of Versace,
announced along with her daughter, Allegra Versace Beck, that they would be
personally donated 200,000 euros to the intensive care unit of San Raffaele
hospital in Milan.
“We are going through something none of us has ever experienced,” said
Donatella Versace on the brand’s social media. “Despite all the uncertainty
and the fear, we have shown the world that we are a strong community, that
we stand together, and that we have helped each other in such an amazing,
generous way. I have never been more proud of being Italian and I feel it
was not just an honour, but my duty to do my part and support in any way I
could.”
Main Image: Michael Kors SS20 campaign by Inez and Vinoodh
Other Images: Michael Kors Facebook, Versace Facebook
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