Fab Sale: District Sample Sale

Fashion meets compassion at one of DC's best sales of the season on September 16th. The District Sample Sale brings together 20 of DC's best boutiques to sell their end-of-the-season clothes at (extremely) wallet-friendly prices. Fall 2009 stores include Wink, Urban Chic, Sugar, and many more. DSS has taken place in the Spring and Fall since 2007 and is a completely volunteer run event. The best part about DSS; 100% of the proceeds benefit a different charity each sale. The Fall 2009 beneficiary is Rachael's Women's Center, a daytime shelter for homeless women in DC. RWC has a great Street Outreach program where outreach workers work to develop trusting relationships with people living on the streets. Their efforts help bring people that are usually hesitant to visit the shelter to come in for shelter, a warm meal, and several other services. Tickets start at $40, please support DSS because helping an amazing nonprofit like RWC is one of the best excuses to go shopping! If you have any questions, please contact DSS at: info@districtsamplesale.com.

Tickets: https://dss.voltalive.com/
Website: http://www.districtsamplesale.com/index.html

Fab Event: Fashion Night Out

The global celebration of Fashion comes to NYC on September 10th. What a great way to kick-off fashion week! The city will be buzzing with millions of visitors and during FNO over 700 clothing stores and designers across all boroughs will stay open until 11pm, so people can shop, shop, shop. Vogue, the Council of Fashion Designers, and New York & Co have combined their efforts to get the American consumer shopping again.

There are several ways to get involved with FNO, you can buy an official t-shirt at any of the participating retailers: http://www.fashionsnightout.com/tshirts.php. 40% of the proceeds will benefit the National September 11 Memorial and Museum. There will also be a city-wide clothing drive: http://www.fashionsnightout.com/clothingdrive.php. All clothing will be donated to the NYC AIDS Fund whom will then distribute to 24 AIDS-focused charities in the city. And lastly, my favorite thing to do, volunteer! They're going to need a lot of volunteers to help with a clothing drive that big, if your interested: http://www.fashionsnightout.com/volunteer.php.

Gap's Give & Get is back

The Summer Edition of Gap Inc.'s Give & Get is here. If you are a Gap Inc. "Best Customer", you probably already received your email to invite your friends to shop for a cause. Gap Give & Get is when their "Best Customers" receive a 30% off coupon to shop during certain days of the month and 5% of their purchase amount goes to a Give & Get partner. This summer's Give & Get partners are Donorschoose.org, The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Feeding America, Care, Teach for America, and The Global Fund. They're encouraged to invite 25 of their friends via email to print out the coupon and as well (you can use it as many times as you want during the Give & Get shopping days!). If are a Best Customer, please take a few minutes of your time to invite 25 of your friends to shop for a cause from July 30th - August 2nd. Don't forget to choose your beneficiary nonprofit at: Gap Give & Get. Happy shopping ! https://www.gapgiveandget.com/

Bebe: Get your AIDS Walk tee

Fashion meeting compassion! I wrote about H&M's Fashion Against Aids last week and I happy to say another company is supporting the fight against AIDS. The AIDS Walk was a few weekends ago, but you can still buy an official Bebe shirt and support the cause. 100% of the proceeds go to the San Fransisco AIDS Foundation.


Bebe, $39

http://www.bebe.com/dp/B0022Q400G