FASHION + STYLE
JULIE ROULSTON PONSONBY DESIGNERS HELP FIND A CURE FOR BREAST CANCER Ponsonby designers have joined forces with other top names to design products for ‘Cure Shop’ - dedicated concessions stores at Glassons and online, which opened on 22 September. Hailed as the world’s first stores dedicated to finding a cure for Breast Cancer, they offer products and signature tees from Ponsonby designers Karen Walker, Zambesi, Ruby and Cybele, as well as Twenty-Seven Names, Trelise Cooper and Huffer. What started as a creative fashion collaboration with the Breast Cancer Research Trust and Karen Walker in 2004 has turned into a full-scale shop, dedicated to selling products to raise money to fight Breast Cancer in New Zealand. Tony Moffatt, CEO of the Breast Cancer Research Trust, says “Thanks to the generous and stylish women of New Zealand, over the past eight years, Glassons’ creative partnership with the Breast Cancer Research Trust has raised over NZD$3.5 million, aiding some of the world’s most important research findings about breast cancer to date.” In 2010, the chair sponsored by Glassons at The University Of Auckland discovered that there was a gene in women that caused breast cancer. This was a world-first breakthrough and the money raised through Glassons’ BCRT creative drive was instrumental in the discovery. The Cure Shop stores are to remain open for a total of six weeks till early Novemberr - we recommend you get in quick to get some fun summer essentials from topp designers at great prices. (PS If you’re shopping for teenagers and young women thiss Christmas, you can’t miss with Cure Shop gifts - get it done early!) You can shop Curee Shopp online at www.glassons.com/cure-shop. g p PN
CYBELE nail polish $29.99
KAREN WALKER poolside inflatable chair $29.99
KAREN WALKER sunhat with love heart scarf $34.99
84 PONSONBY NEWS+ October 2011
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