Naomi on Fashion For Relief

Naomi Campbell's Fashion For Relief show at London Fashion Week, Sep. 17th.

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Before and after Fashion for Relief.

Naomi Campbell and Billionaire Russian Boyfriend Vladislav Doronin.

They started the evening at The National History Museum, Fashion For Relief and later moved on to Cipriani's for a Romantic Dinner.

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Thanks Ferry Coal for the super pics!

have a look at this video, a version of the Cell Block Tango from the Broadway musical "Chicago" with supermodels Stephanie Seymour, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer, Cindy Crawford & Chrisy Turlington as the "6 marry murdresses"

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=fKeLKKGWiRs

thank you Ferry Coal

at Issa Spring 2009

The latest bitchy fashion guide to hit the shelves is 'Fashion Victims' (HarperCollins) by designer Michael Roberts. The book launch for this 'Catty Catalogue of Stylish Casualties' - hosted by Vanity Fair at Hamiltons Gallery sept., 15th - was braved by a variety of style-conscious folk including supermodel Naomi Campbell (photo with the author), foppish actor Rupert Everett, and the original 'It' girls Tara Palmer-Tompkinson and Tamara Beckwith.

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Sarah Brown hosts a fashion industry event on the 25th anniversary of the London Fashion Week held at 10 Downing Street, London, England - 15.09.08

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Fashion for Relief brought together many big names and pretty faces for a good cause. The catwalk was taken by the celebs walking down their frocks for the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood. Dame Vivienne Westwood herself graced the audience wearing her own design and smiling all catwalk long. While rumors about Naomi’s retirement and courting motherhood spread more and more, she walked down the runway alongside young Chanel Iman.

Naomi Campbell and Chanel Iman wearing Azzedine Allaia.

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Wednesday 17 September 2008 – Swiss Watch and Jewellery House, de Grisgono participated in this year’s spectacular Fashion For Relief Fashion Show and Auction during London Fashion Week. The White Ribbon Alliance, patroned by Sarah Brown, is an international coalition of organisations and individuals, active from grassroots to government and international level, saving the lives of pregnant women and newborn babies around the world. A mix of international celebrities and top models including Naomi Campbell, Joaquin Cortes, Paul Sculford, Kimberly Stewart, Princess Eugenie, Tyson Beckford, Heather Kerzner, Tamsin Egerton, David Gandy, Alice Dellal, Lizzie Jagger, Jamelia, Mischa Barton, Tamara Beckwith and her daughter Anouska Beckwith among others, modelled at the event wearing de Grisogono watches. All clothing and accessories worn on the catwalk were donated by a wide range of exciting and high profile designers including, Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood and Dolce & Gabbana. The show and auction took place at the official British Fashion Council’s London Fashion Week Tent at the Natural History Museum. Naomi Campbell sayd, "I am honoured to be working with Sarah Brown and the White Ribbon Alliance on this year’s Fashion For Relief. So many women, children, families, communities around the world are affected by maternal mortality. Fashion is universal, personal and touches everyone in some way. We are using this year’s London Fashion Week catwalk to reach people, showcase the important work of the White Ribbon Alliance and raise money for this cause. ”Fawaz Gruosi, Founder and President of de Grisogono was happy to support the Fashion For Relief cause in aid of The White Ribbon Alliance which his great friend Naomi Campbell is an avid supporter of. Funds raised for The White Ribbon Alliance will go directly to promote and increase awareness of the need to make pregnancy and childbirth safe for women and newborns in developing and developed countries.

Naomi Campbell wears Zac Posen.

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The fashion A-list stepped out in the name of charity - and a little glamour of course - in aid of Naomi Campbell’s : Fashion for Relief - the 3rd annual charity fashion show/auction is benefitting women through pregnancy and childbirth. This years all-star celebrity fashion show opened with singer Estelle who was welcomed with cheers from the boisterous crowd. This being followed by the iconic moment when Naomi would take to the runway alongside newcomer, and the busiest girl at London Fashion Week, Chanel Iman. Fashion legend Vivienne Westwood went for confident stroll down the catwalk, wearing huge platform heels with seemingly little effort. And Tyson Beckford was of course on hand to walk the event.

Naomi Campbell wears YSL.

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London Fashion Week - Issa - Spring/Summer 2009 held at BFC Tent, Natural History Museum London, England - 19.09.08.

Before show and backstage.

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On the runway.

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From The Times. Michelle Henery.

September 17, 2008. Naomi Campbell cools down.

I'm no angry princess, the supermodel says - just a sassy woman who won't be treated as a disposable catwalk novelty

Naomi Campbell is not angry. The outbursts, the run-ins with the law, the tantrums - they have nothing to do with anger, she insists, but instead are born of frustration - at the lack of diversity in fashion; at the view that black models are just a passing trend; at her contributions to fashion and charity being often overlooked. “I'm not saying I've always used my frustration in the right way,” she says, “but my gut instinct is to keep women of colour out there whether I'm still in fashion or not. I'll be very happy when I'm 55 years old to pick up a magazine and see a lovely spread with a black woman. Then I'll know that I didn't work for all these years only to see it go backwards.” Over jasmine tea at the Dorchester, we marvel at the absurdity that she is now finally “on trend” by virtue of her skin colour. With America considering the election of its first black president, Italian Vogue's first black issue proving a sellout and spawning much analysis of the lack of diversity in fashion, and the French designer Sophie Theallet's decision to send only black models down her catwalk in New York last week, it seems that it has never been more fashionable to be black. But Campbell, the first black model to grace the covers of French and British Vogue and often the lone ethnic-minority face on the catwalk, is quick to point out that it wasn't always this way. “Last year New York was the worst of all the fashion-week shows. They didn't use many black models at all,” she says. For decades, fashion editorials and catwalk shows have preferred to focus on an extremely tall, thin, young, white ideal. The received wisdom (confounded by the success of the recent Italian Vogue issue) was that “blacks don't sell”. In New York, a survey this year found that just 6 per cent of the available catwalk slots were given to black women. So for 20 years Campbell felt that she couldn't retire. But now she can, she says, after listing several black models, such as Jourdan Dunn and Tyra Banks, who have appeared on major magazine covers in recent months: “This time they [designers and editors] have stepped it up. I feel positive. That means that I can go soon.” This increased diversity will be reflected at her annual charity fashion show and auction, Fashion for Relief, in the British Fashion Council's tent at London Fashion Week tonight. The event is in aid of the White Ribbon Alliance, which campaigns for safer pregnancy and childbirth worldwide, and will feature eveningwear by Alexander McQueen, Dolce & Gabbana and Vivienne Westwood, among others, modelled by celebrities from the worlds of fashion, music, sport and film, all chosen by Campbell and representing an array of ages and ethnicities. It irritates Campbell that some people view her charity work as merely a ploy aimed at gaining public redemption: “Sometimes they are like, oh, you need to get out there and do what Angelina Jolie's doing - and I'm like, I've been doing it, I just care to keep it more discreet. What she does is incredible but I choose to do it in my way.” It is hard to imagine that this smiling, chatty and sometimes vulnerable woman is the same one who swore at an airline pilot and attacked police while being removed from a plane in handcuffs in April. But the fickleness of the fashion world is clearly one subject that still arouses strong feelings in her: “The black issue of Italian Vogue shouldn't make it briefly fashionable to be black, then unfashionable again,” she says. Can any amount of aggravation from the industry in which she works excuse the much-publicised bad behaviour that has got her into trouble, though? “I've done some things that were plainly just not right,” she admits, “and I take that on the chin 100 per cent. There have been many frustrations. But I don't like using excuses. You know, if I did something wrong, I did something wrong - and I'll pay the price for it.” That was exactly what she was doing last week when, having admitted the “air rage” assault charges, she started her sentence - 200 hours of community service at a shelter for the homeless in East London. “I have learnt - I am learning, I should say, not to be provoked,” she says. “But if someone insults me, I'm still going to defend myself. I don't take good to racial insults... “I know that I am blessed - but there is always scope for change and improvement. Obama is for change, and I really hope he wins - let's paint the White House black.”

During the London Fashion Week.

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Vladimir Doronin: I may ask Naomi Campbell to marry me. Russian billionaire is smitten with the supermodel. Friday, 19 September 2008.

Naomi Campbell’s boyfriend Vladimir Doronin has hinted that he could wed the supermodel in the near-future.The pair have been dating since they met at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. ‘Naomi is wonderful,’ he tells the Daily Mirror. ‘Will I put a ring on her finger? Maybe very soon.’ Vladimir supported Naomi, 38, at her Fashion For Relief fundraiser at London's Natural History Museum on Wednesday. He even spent £25,000 on a Zac Posen gown for her in the charity auction section of the event. Naomi land the Russian billionaire later headed to the after-show party at Taman Gang.

Naomi Campbell models for and speaks about Fashion for Relief 2008.

Naomi Campbell walks on the catwalk at the end of the Fashion For Relief show, during London Fashion Week at the Natural History Museum in central London, Wednesday Sept. 17, 2008.

The Fashion For Relief show