Recap: Fashion For All Benefit
Nearly two hundred women attended my first inaugural Fashion For All Benefit, where women in low-income communities enjoy a day of dignified shopping & access to community resources. Every guest left with twenty pieces and the enthusiasm, passion, and jubilant in the room was astounding. We had dedicated representatives from Successful Start, Fort Greene Snap, Dress for Success, and Mary Kaye Cosmetics. And the volunteers - incredible. Twenty six luminous, devoted women made my dream a reality. I’m humbled and tearful in my gratitude. Thank you for your donations, your support, your encouragement, your emails rife with exclamation points.
I’m not an emotional person. I don’t cry in public. But today, when a woman leaned over a table and pulled me close and said that she was having a really hard fucking year and today was a gift to herself, I felt my heart breaking. And I held her and held her and I kissed her and I said thank you. Thank you for being an extraordinary woman. I feel privileged to have made your day easier, even in the smallest way. And in the middle of the floor, in the maelstrom, I teared. This feels good, I thought. This feels real.
Photo credit: Gillian Crosson