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Charity is one of the hottest topics in fashion, and a very good one too. The fashion world seems to have made a lot from the society, so it seems that everyone do look forward to the celebrities to show their kindness in charity and to take their responsibility too. So it is really breaking news that fashion world always teams up for charity, and this time Naomi Campbell and Dolce & Gabbana design T-Shirts for charity. Despite my personal feelings about the supermodel (and it’s really nothing), this is really great news.

Naomi Campbell and Dolce & Gabbana have collaborated on a collection of 14 T-shirts for charity. Each tee has an image of the supermodel that was captured by some of the most acclaimed fashion photographers, like David La Chapelle, Patrick Demarchelier, Steven Meisel and Paolo Roversi to name a few.

Fashion for Relief is Campbell’s charity, and it raise funds whenever an urgent need arises globally. This organization mobilizes the fashion industry from within to help society at large. You can get a signed tee from the supermodel at Fashion’s Night Out on September 10th at Dolce & Gabbana’s Madison Avenue store in New York City. They will be sold for $200 each, but remember that the proceeds will go to a worthy cause.

I love the tees and the gift wrap is so nice and sweet, and it’s for charity! We love fashion all the way, and we love it even more when it comes to charity!

10 is a interesting number, and 10 magazine means enjoyable reading, so when it comes to the 10th anniversary of 10 magazine, this is really fun and happy and very exciting to have 10 fashion Gods to celebrating this legendary moment. And we are really lucky to see this happen, 10 Summer 2010 is destined to be a legend, 10 Years, 10 Covers, 10 Fashion Gods, this is a real festival in fashion!

Celebrating 10 years of wonderful production, the latest edition of 10 looks to 10 Fashion Gods to help them celebrate their milestone. With covers featuring Alber Elbaz, Azzedine Alaia, Dolce & Gabbana, Donatella Versace, Helmut Lang, John Galliano, Karl Lagerfeld, Ralph Lauren, Tom Ford and Vivienne Westwood, Sophia Neophitou-Apostolu, founder and editor-in-chief of 10 expressed, “These are some of the faces that have made our industry and it is an honour to be celebrating them. 10 magazine has a history of celebrating the best creative talent in the world and we are honoured that these icons of fashion agreed to be our cover stars.”

Good for 10, and Lucky for us, summer 2010 is going to be a really enjoyable time, and a really good time to take a closer look at fashion, and maybe get some new ideas about fashion from these 10 fashion Gods! Yet, I’m still missing some other names, like Alexander McQueen, after all this can’t be perfect, but still, enjoy!

In the fashion industry, one important thing is to choose the right faces for your products, and usually the faces are either models or celebrities. For us ordinary people, one big feast (besides the gorgeous designs) fashion gives us is the glamorous ad campaigns. We’re actually happy to see a fashion ad campaign coming out every time, and the question is: Which face you want to see? Models? Or celebrities?

Well, anyway, this years, it looks like you’ll see more models, it has been said that models continue to book campaigns over celebrities.

This morning, WWD published a story about models’ edging out celebrities in fall campaigns.

The publication says that European houses have booked more models than celebrities for their recent ads, and that American houses—which tend to favor models over celebrities, anyways—will likely continue in this vein for fall as well. The one exception? Madonna for Dolce & Gabbana.

YSL’s Stefano Pilati and Gucci’s Frida Giannini agree that models are the preferred choice. Pilati, who is shooting fall ads with Daria Werbowy as I write this, said, “Actresses are fantastic, but they’re not models and it’s not easy. [Actresses] have an attitude, but will never be the fashion attitude. To me, fashion photography is with a model; otherwise, it’s a portrait.”

Giannini quips, “The other issue with celebrities is that they are characters who are often associated with a certain film. I prefer a strong, generic face that’s not related to any world—whether that be music or Hollywood.” Meanwhile, Brazilian beauty Raquel Zimmermann is set to star in Gucci’s latest campaigns.

WWD’s sources provided other examples: Balenciaga will cast ten models this season, among them Karen Elson and Stella Tennant; Louis Vuitton’s ads—recently shot by Steven Meisel—will feature Elson, Natalia Vodianova and Christy Turlington; and the Roberto Cavalli campaign will star Gisele Bündchen.

Karl Lagerfeld has also reinstated his band of Chanel and Fendi regulars: Abbey Lee Kershaw, Freja Beha Erichsen, Iris Strubegger and Anja Rubik. When asked why he selected only models, the designer replied that there are “not so many” celebrities to choose from. Plus, their “overexposure in ‘people’ magazines also makes it that one may be a little tired of celebrities and the red carpet. I love models and there are great ones for the moment.”

Another reason celebrity faces have dwindled in ads is that the star-crowd are a risky bunch. The director of Marilyn Agency’s celebrities and branding in Paris, Robert Ferrel, adds that “you have to understand that that movie star might have one hit movie and then a dry period. Especially in this economic environment, brands are definitely looking to get more out of their investment.”

Pilati concludes the article stating, “I do the fashion. They, the models, know how to wear it, and the photographer knows how to take a picture of it. It’s where the fashion dream comes from.”

The industry consensus is more “models and less celebs,” and we couldn’t agree more. Now if only Vogue felt the same way about their covers.

This time, in the little fashion battlefield it looks like models are winning. So what’s your opinion about this? Do you agree that models are more expressive in fashion industry, or you want to see more celebrities? Well, anyway, tell us your idea of this in the comment.

People live separately everyday, and we’re used to say that fashion is cold and little-humanity. But when disaster comes, we do bound together, and anyway the fashion world is do her job now! Parties aren’t enough, Fashion’s now throwing its own version of Hope for Haiti, gathering its A-list stars for a London Fashion Week show.

Naomi Campbell and First Lady Sarah Brown will stage a charity show on February 18th, just the night before LFW officially starts. They’ve already landed dresses from Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood and Dolce &Gabbana, apparently they’re still building a roster of celebrities and models to walk the runway. How exactly they’ll make buckets of money to send to Haiti remains to be unmentioned.

At the mean time, this Saturday, DecadesTwo is hosting their annual shoe sale and sending a chunk of the profits to Haiti via Artists for Peace and Justice. Everything — Louboutin, Alaia, Prada, McQueen, Marc — sells for under $150 from 9am to 6pm at the store (8214 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles). And if instead of buying shoes you want to donate your old ones, drop them off at Sigerson Morrison (in New York, LA, or Palm Beach). They’ll give you 15% off their Spring collection, donate your shoes via Soles4Souls and match your pair with one more.

Just, you know, do something for Haiti! Showing that there’s still warm sunshine in such a disaster!