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Fashion for a Cause

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Her Campus Placeholder Avatar Jessica Leigh
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Emory chapter.

The world can still feel the tremors of Japan’s tsunami 3 weeks ago, from the constant fear of a nuclear disaster, to the hundreds of new deaths reported each day.  Do you want to help, but don’t know an appropriate way? 

Wear your heart on your sleeve and your passion for the cause in style with the fashion industry’s designs for Japan.  Ralph Lauren has teamed up with the United Way to create classy Hope Polos, while Kate Spade has created a colorful tote for the Japanese Red Cross Society.  Japan Relief and Tory Burch made fun shirts to raise awareness, and of course Lady Gaga’s bracelets have been a sensation. Fashion for a cause?  Who doesn’t want to help?

Image thanks to Kate Spade.            

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Jessica lives her life at several speeds. She talks too fast, eats too slow and over-analyzes too much.  When she’s not telling long-winded stories, sitting alone at the dinner table, or staring off into space, Jessica loves all things creative. Screenwriter, play director and poet at age 9, songwriter and choreographer at age 16, now, at 23, all she really wants to do is write, help others, and post Instagrams.  As a social media coordinator for multiple fashion brands, and a post-grad writer for Her Campus, she gets to do just that. Jessica is a Midwestern girl from the suburbs of Chicago, but she fell in love with city living during a summer internship in the Big Apple, and now calls NYC home. Jessica loves chocolate milkshakes, dance parties, Chippewa Ranch Camp, Friends re-runs, Chuck Bass and of course, spending time with her fans (read: family and friends).