Staud – For every set of three masks sold, Staud will be donating a set of three masks to the Downtown Women’s Center in Los Angeles. May 29: Erdem – Donating 100% of net profits from the limited-edition face masks to the National Emergencies Trust Coronavirus Appeal. Jacqueline Loekito – Donating 25% of the profits of the “Love Unites US” T-shirt to The Okra Project. AGOLDE – Donating 100% of the retail selling price from website sales of masks to various causes fighting injustice for the month of June. Citizens of Humanity – Donating 100% of the retail selling price from website sales of masks to various causes fighting injustice for the month of June. Fleur du Mal – 10% of sales will be donated to Know Your Rights Camp Legal Defense Initiative. Marques’Almeida – 20% of every purchase will be donated to Black Lives Matter. Mented Cosmetic s – Donating a portion of every sale to support protestors around the country for entire month of June. Stefan Cooke – 100% proceeds from vintage Bugatti bags to Marsha P. Lou Dallas – 50% of sales from the End Militarism tee will go to Black Lives Matter. Peter Do – 100% of net profits from website sales to be donated to Black-founded organizations and frontline charities for the entire month of June. Sunwink – Donated $5,000 to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and 100% of sales from their Hibiscus Mint Unwind Tonic to the Marsha P. Noto Botanics – Donating a portion of profits of the Agender Oil to civil rights-based organizations. Vernon François – Donating 35% of online sales to organizations dedicated to the fight of racism and injustice for entire month of June. Sephora – Participating in 15% Pledge, dedicating 15% of their inventory to Black-owned businesses. Rent The Runway – Participating in 15% Pledge and are dedicating 15% of their inventory to Black-owned businesses. Milk Bar – Added a donation widget to their checkout page: customers can elect to donate to Black Lives Matter or The Innocence Project. MAC Cosmetics – Pledging $250K to nonprofit organizations fighting racial injustice and a 500% match to employee donations. La Ligne – 25% of online sales will be donated to the NAACP. Staud – 10% of online sales will be donated to Color of Change. Glossier – Committing $500K in the form of grants to Black-owned beauty businesses. Frankie’s Bikinis – Donating 20% of sales from their Pride collection (launching Wednesday 6/17) to the Stonewall Community Foundation. Eileen Fisher – $25,000 donation to the Loveland Foundation and a $25,000 donation to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Café Forgot – 100% of total sales from Café Forgot’s Donations shop will go to Black Lives Matter. June 12: Brooklinen – Donating to Black Lives Matter, Campaign Zero and Act Blue Bail Funds, and are matching employee donations to these causes. This post was last updated on Friday 6/12. Oh! Before you scroll on: We’re going to be updating this story regularly as more brands do more good things. Do with this information whatever you want and above all else, stay safe. Below you’ll find a list of designers, which we will be updating in real time, with links to their sites and brief summaries of their efforts. It still matters, especially because it can have a cumulative effect.” It also does not supersede the urgency with which we can all donate something.Īnd thus, a good thing, I think, that we can do right now is to make you aware of which brands are doing what to support who (be it an organization or themselves) and how. Engagement/community/awareness is a form of value, even if it’s not as tangible as money in the bank. This doesn’t have to mean commerce, as Harling aptly pointed out in an e-mail conversation we recently published, “Small things add up. I don’t know what the correct response is, but I do know that I care to support, sustain (even celebrate) the labels that have been there for me when I’ve needed them. The schools of thought tethered to this conflict are many ranging from those that encourage conscious consumption from the small businesses you like (if you can) to those that reinforce the risk at which we put the various hands that must touch the product in order to get it from brand to you. At the intersection of a conflict that finds us wondering how to responsibly support the brands-both big and small-that have often supported us through the philosophical mechanisms of empowerment, expression, community, inspiration, and so forth, resides a gigantic question mark that seems only to get bigger as the weeks proceed, the quarantine persists, and the pandemic grows more catastrophic.
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