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Designers Against AIDSIn order to re-awaken a desperately needed aids/HIV awareness, the Beauty Without Irony Foundation - headed by Ninette Murk, who also was creative director of Designers do Denim in 2001 - is launching Designers Against AIDS - a project/fashion line aimed to get AIDS back into the media.
DAA is T-shirt/jersey based fashion line sold in fashion, concept and music shops.
The items are designed by famous and emerging fashion designers, DJ's, musicians, photographers, sports celebs, street artists.
Accessories and lifestyle articles such as bracelets with a text, compilation CD's and specially designed condom wrappers are part of the next stage of the plan.
50% of the netto proceeds of the sales of the t-shirts will go to the Institute for Tropical Medicine in Antwerp/Belgium to help fund their grundbreaking aids research.
The launch collection T shirts (sponsored by Umbro) has been created by fashion designers Bernhard Willhelm, Marina Yee (one of the original Antwerp Six), Spanish fashion design duo Spastor, British goalkeeper David James, photographer Kimiko Yoshida, German music & lifestyle magazine Spex and the music celebs: Scissor Sisters, The Cardigans, Robert Smith of The Cure and Faithless.
The idea is to present the beautiful side of love in these designs, as we want to present great looking shirts that
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