From 2nd till July 4th, Designers Against AIDS will be in Barcelona presenting a new street wear collection at Lunapark. If you are curious about how our new clothes will look like don't hesitate and come over to the the most innovative trade fair event for the progressive, contemporary clothing culture.

In so, we have made a collaboration with BBB to bring one of our favourites slogans to the Bread & Butter Fetish for Charity collection! This a charitable project, initiated in 2004, in which different labels are designing a limited number of clothing items as well as the outfits of B&B hostesses. 

The collection can be purchased exclusively in the B&B Fetish for Charity-Shop in Lunapark  and through the B&B Webshop -of course for a good cause!

www.breadandbutter.com/summer2008/
 

FIB Heineken and Saturday Night Fiber Against AIDS

DAA have joined forces with Maraworld in the fight against AIDS and will be presenting our ultimate collaboration next June 4th in Madrid (La Casa Encendida). An advance premiere of the exhibition, followed by a cocktail party for selected press and avantgarde Spanish artists and designers will take place at the courtyard of this renowned cultural centre.

DAA Remade

This collection –a selection of unique pieces of clothing customized by famous artists, musicians and designers from the Spanish avantgarde- will be exhibited at Mustang Fashion Area during Benicassim International Festival (Benicàssim, Spain, July 17th-20th). Furthermore every exclusive item will be auctioned through eBay, starting the first week of July until the festival closure. 

Fibers Against AIDS

Last April we launched the international contest  "Fibers Against AIDS", which will decide the design of the official FIB 2008 t-shirt, selling at the festival this summer. The name of the winner together with its design will be revealed during the event in Madrid (June 4th). Moreover, some of the performing artists at FIB Heineken and Saturday Night Fiber (Madrid, July 19th) have designed a limited edition of t-shirts selling exclusively at the FIB shops during both events.

*All the benefits from this collaboration will be entirely donated to DAA to support AIDS awareness prevention and educational programs worldwide.

Dita, known for her burlesque acts, is also known for her involvement in the fight against -and increasing the awareness about- HIV/AIDS. This is why we are launching a fundraising  campaign during these 7 weeks. In the burlesque way that she masters so extremely well, her private colelction stockings will be presented to the press on May 14th. This video will be both available on www.designersagainstaids.com and www.thecointreaupolitan.com.

H&M announced the launch of 'Fashion against AIDS', their AIDS awareness project/collection together with Designers against AIDS that will hit the stores (650 of them, in 27 countries) on January 31st, 2008.  The certified organic cotton T-shirts, hooded jackets and minidresses are designed by celebs  Timbaland, Rihanna, Scissor Sisters, Katharine Hamnett, Rufus Wainwright, Good Charlotte, Ziggy Marley, Chicks on Speed, Justice, Jade Jagger, Henrik Vibskov, The Cardigans and My Chemical Romance, who all participated free of charge.

The idea is to alert young people to the actual HIV/AIDS situation and to make them think about prevention and caring for themselves and their loved ones.

                 
 
Designers against AIDS invites you to our special event on the 30th of January in Café d'Anvers (Antwerpen-Belgium) from 9 PM.

 This is our launching party for the campaign "Fashion against AIDS", in partnership with H&M, which will be available in H&M stores from the 31st of January (the next day!) with 24 different items of t-shirts, hoodies and tanktops designed by 15 famous artists, musicians and designers.
 

Chicks on Speed will be there performing a live act -hopefully including a raunchy version of the 'Strip Song'!-,  Anat Ben David will sing a few songs from her new CD which comes out in February, and you can put your groove on to music played by DJ's such as Sven Van Hees, Smos & Baby B, Koenie vs Nikolai, Amanda Bergdorf vs Prinz, Merdan Taplak, DJ Soi and Mixie Mansion, who wanted to support us in this cause by performing for free.


The entrance will cost just 5 euros, which will be entirely donated to DAA for our upcoming AIDS-awareness education campaigns- a big thank you to Café d'Anvers for their support!

We are looking forward to meet you there, please join us!  

Since last september DAA has an online shop at DaWanda.com  where it offers exclusive collection pieces and limited special editions. As  special hightlight, starting on December 1st, and finishing on December 22nd, DaWanda will auction 5 cellphones that were customized for DAA by famous group Scissor Sisters, avantgarde fashion designer Bernhard Willhelm, chic eco label Noir, elektro singer Peaches and contemporary artist André.

In the last four weeks before Christmas, DaWanda will offer a limited number of handmade cell phone accessories from star designer Bernhard Willhelm, electro-pop singer Peaches, eco-designer Noir, the chart-breakers Scissor Sisters and graffiti legend André aka Monsieur A. Painting, pasting, sewing and crocheting, the artists have created individual items from the heart, and all proceeds will go to DAA to support its fight against Aids. The products include a cell phone fishnet charm by Bernhard Willhelm, which alludes to its German origins, and a metallic cell phone pouch by Peaches, whose beaver decoration symbolizes her home country of Canada.  
Net proceeds from the sale of the collection pieces will be used for projects that increase awareness of HIV/AIDS among young people in industrialized countries.

DaWanda is a European marketplace for individual lifestyles. The portal www.dawanda.com, which was launched in December 2006 for designers, craftspeople and other members of the creative community, offers a selection of over 25,000 handmade products from more than 3,500 vendors. Customers desiring even more individuality can personalize select products in the DaWanda Style Lab, designing their own unique creations

Plateforme Prévention SIDA (http://www.preventionsida.org ) organizes a major event in Brussels every year on December 1st and for the 3th time running DAA will also take part. The market on Place de la Monnaie -right in the heart of Brussels- starts at 11 AM and ends at 5 AM. Please look out for our ‘Designers Against AIDS’ booth: we'll have the loudest music, the fanciest t-shirts (at only 20€ each) -and our ‘shocking’ Erwin Olaf photo will be shown for the very first time in Brussels. Be there!