Naomi Campbell plans to fight Ebola with benefit fashion shows

Naomi Campbell has revealed that she is planning a Fashion For Relief show to raise awareness about the spread of Ebola. The supermodel is concerned that “people don’t have a clear idea about what Ebola is” and hopes that her events could raise funds to help stop the spread of the deadly disease.

The shows will take place during fashion week in February, with one show slated to be held in New York, and another during London Fashion Week in Campbell’s hometown. Telling Page Six that she has a home in Kenya, she noted that as someone who travels widely she was “scared” about the outbreak, adding: “Ebola does not discriminate.”

Campbell has hosted Fashion For Relief shows in cities from Cannes to New York before, convincing friends and fellow supermodels including Kate Moss and Eva Herzigova to take to the catwalk for worthy causes. She hosted a similar double-header of shows in 2010, in aid of earthquake-hit Haiti, presenting the showcase twice in four days – from NY, where Agyness Deyn took a catwalk tumble, to London where David Walliams and James Corden kissed as they strutted.

Source: British Vogue

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