Fashion Industry Forum

Tamara Mellon’s guide to life

Posted by cello.liza on November 14, 2009 at 9:52am in Fashion Design - Fashion Merchandising

International businesswoman, multimillionaire, single mother, glamorous and until Christian Slater’s squeeze, 42, is the sort of woman. She’s an investor in the recently revived 1970s fashion label Halston, and a director of Revlon, but Tamara still isn’t kicking off her heels and resting on her laurels. On the contrary, she’s busier than ever, having just launched a limited-edition collection of shoes and handbags, Project PEP. A quarter of the net sales from this collection will be donated to the Elton John AIDS Foundation to support the Simelela Rape Centre in Cape Town, which aims to administer victims with Post-HIV Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP), which can prevent HIV if it’s given within 72 hours of exposure.More here