FASHION WITHOUT BORDERS :

Round the World Trip on the theme Fashion For Peace

Yesterday,
Fashion Without Borders was the passion and the dream of two friends.

Today,
Fashion Without Borders is a trip round the world about fashion.

Tomorrow,
Fashion Without Borders will be the union of de signers from the five continents on the same fashion show stage, to help some charity organisations and poor families.

CONCEPT

We visit forty countries for one year.
We meet a designer in each country. This designer creates a typical dress of his or her country which symbolises peaceful and tolerant values. We also meet some authorities, media, journalists (newspaper, television, radio…). We take part in many broadcasts. We catch some pictures and videos (interviews of designers, life scenes, landscapes…)

At the end of this travel, we will organise some fashion shows in ten cities in France and abroad. All the dresses collected in the world and all the pictures will be presented. We have a team in France : 50 models, logistic… We will also release a video and will write a book to tell the story of this big human adventure.

The benefits of these fashion shows will be given to some charity organisations. We met and chose these charity organisations during our travel around the world (Mexico, Brazil, India, Africa). Most of them belong to PNUD (Programme of the United Nations for the Development).
These organisations teach sawing to poor women. These women need some machines, some teachers and some places to learn sawing. They take part in these organisations because they need to create clothes for their families or sell these clothes to get money.

We have the official support of the United Nations. We met Mrs Kofi Annan in New York last December (The United Nations was the first step of our travel around the world).

HOW THIS PROJECT WAS BORN ?

- The complicity of two friends
- A willingness to create
- Love for travel and adventure
- A project to help others
- A passion for fashion
- Suddenly, the idea was born… After the meeting of Michelle Gagnereau, designer of the two first dresses of Peace. She told us that these dresses of Peace must be presented in the United Nations to accompany a delegation of 160 young French ambassadors of Peace.

We become the young ambassadors of Peace in France. So we dream…. These dresses will not go only to the United States, but they will travel all over the world. And some dresses of forty countries will be associated.

WHY MARRY FASHION AND CHARITY ?

- The Charity Organisations

Everybody needs to dress. Some people have even not enough money to eat. Our initiative includes an idea of exchange and creativity. These charity organisations are going to create peace dresses as well. By our fashion shows we will promote the working of these people without resources. And we will help them to buy materials to keep on working.

- The Designers

They come from Europe, Africa, Asia, some are famous, some are young talents. The union of theses designers from all over the world will give to the spectators a wonderful example of solidarity.
Each designer will represent his or her country. Through a dress he or she will express the culture of his or her country and peace values. What beautiful image to see the designers of the world to give his or her contribution. By creating a dress, you will be very helpful for these poor women.

PLANNING

1. One and half year of preparation: March 2000 - November 2001

- Sponsorships, partners
- Organisation of fashion shows in France
- Media

2. Travel around the world: December 2001 - January 2003

More than 40 des tinations...

3. Venus of Fashion Shows : spring-summer 2003

In France: Paris, Angers, Fontenay-Le-Comte, Le Mans, Les Sables d'Olonne, Nantes, Lyon…
Abroad: New York, Las Vegas, Martinique, Abidjan, Tahiti, Singapore...

CONTACT US

1. By mail :

karen.helene@netcourrier.com

Karen ALLETRU (+33 (0)6 63 64 10 72) et Hélène LEROYER (+33 (0)6 63 64 13 49),
Presidents of the association "MODE SANS FRONTIERES" Fashion without borders

or contact :

Lucette Allétru, treasurer

alletru.lucette@caramail.com
tel : + 33 (0)6 60 63 02 99.

Adress of the association :
Mode Sans Frontières
9 rue Goupilleau
85200 FONTENAY-LE-COMTE
FRANCE

FASHION WITHOUT BORDERS IN MOTION...

Around the world Karen and Helene meet...

designers...

charity organisations...

media (authorities, television, radio, newspapers...)

We are welcomed by families and friends...

We catch some pictures and video : landscapes, interviews, life scenes...

We want to convey a wonderful message of Peace in each country through the two first Peace dresses...