Capri Holdings, founders donate for COVID-19 relief

04 Apr '20

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Global luxury fashion group Capri Holdings Ltd recently announced that its collective brands and their founders are donating over $3 million to support COVID-19 relief efforts. In New York, the Michael Kors brand will donate $1 million to back local relief. In London, Jimmy Choo will donate $500,000 to support UK as well as global relief efforts.

Capri Holdings founder Michael Kors and John Idol will make personal contributions of an additional $1 million towards such efforts.

The combined $2 million donation will be distributed across two of New York City’s largest hospital systems, NYU Langone Health and New York-Presbyterian Hospital; God’s Love We Deliver, which will fund meals for the city’s most vulnerable individuals living with serious illness; and A Common Thread, CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund for COVID-19 Relief, said a company press release.

In Milan, Versace is donating $500,000 to support local efforts in response to the pandemic. This is in addition to the ¥1 million that Versace donated in February to support the Chinese Red Cross Foundation. These additional funds will support the San Raffaele Hospital and the Camera Nazionale Della Moda Italiana. The latter will use it for the ‘Italia, we are with you’ project, an initiative to donate ventilators and medical equipment to the country’s hospitals.

Last month, Donatella Versace, chief creative officer of Versace, announced that she and her daughter, Allegra Versace Beck, together personally donated €200,000 to the intensive care unit of San Raffaele hospital in Milan.

Jimmy Choo’s contribution will go to the National Health Service COVID-19 Urgent Appeal by NHS Charities Together and the World Health Organisation’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund.

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