Madonna's sustainably produced 'Celebration Tour' designer fashion pieces made in partnership with Jean Paul Gaultier have helped raise funds for charities in Kenya and Malawi. The limited-edition, certified organic cotton and Fair-Trade merchandise will benefit Chema Vision Children's Center in Kibera, Kenya - a beacon of hope for some of Kibera's most vulnerable youth. Raising Malawi will also receive some of the money raised from sales of the limited-edition collection.
Madonna, Gaultier, and acclaimed artist and social-entrepreneur Julian Prolman, president of Ministry of Tomorrow (MOT) were the brains behind the charity collection, which sold-out in record time. Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion. It's a cause close to the 'Like a Virgin' hitmaker, as Madonna adopted David and Mercy James, both 18, and 11-year-old twins Stella and Estere from Malawi.
She also has Lourdes Leon, 27, with ex Carlos Leon, and son Rocco Ritchie, 23, with ex-husband Guy Ritchie. Gaultier recently recalled creating his iconic conical bra he made for The Queen of Pop on a teddy bear, long before designing the adult version for the 'Vogue' hitmaker. He recalled to The Guardian: "I wanted a doll, not a bear, but I did its hair and used my grandmother’s makeup on it.
And I made a conical bra for it: it was the first conical bra, even before Madonna’s. I grew up on television, not books, and I’d also seen this programme that showed you could cu.