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Women affected by conflict are key to building climate resilience – Women for Women International calls for their meaningful inclusion at COP28.
3 December 2023
Main image: Women for Women International Car Boot Sale 2023, Selfridges, London. Photographer Bronac McNeill
The legendary Women For Women International Car Boot Sale, hosted by Alex Eagle and powered by RESELFRIDGES, returns today for a seventh year, once again taking place at the Selfridges London Car Park.
Guests will be able to explore car boots from luxury brands, designers and stylists, offering past-season, vintage, pre-owned and new designer fashion alongside beauty products, with all proceeds – including ticket sales – going towards Women for Women International’s work supporting women survivors of war.
The Car Boot Sale will be bigger than ever before, taking over both the fifth and sixth floors of the Selfridges Car Park on Oxford Street.
For the first time there will be an edit of Selfridges past-season stock as well as RESELFRIDGES services.
Confirmed fashion brands include Jimmy Choo, By Rotation, Agolde x Citizens of Humanity, ME+EM, RIXO, FRAME, GANNI and Manolo Blahnik, beauty from 111Skin, Sunday Riley, Rodial, Augustinus Bader and Charlotte Tilbury and jewellery from Astrid & Miyu, Missoma and Astley Clarke – plus many more.
In addition, stylists, designers and industry names such as Alex Eagle, Brigitta Spinocchia, Poppy Delevingne, Cara Delevingne, Sukeena Rao, Elizabeth Saltzman, Eugenie Niarchos and Noor Fares are emptying their wardrobes and donating pre-loved pieces.
The event is powered by RESELFRIDGES as Selfridges continues in its commitment to offering both temporary and permanent circular experiences and services.
Women for Women International invests where inequality is greatest by helping women who are forgotten: the women survivors of war and conflict.
In Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda and South Sudan, women learn skills to rebuild their families and communities through Women for Women International’s Stronger Women, Stronger Nations Programme.
They form support networks, are equipped with the skills to earn an income and save and gain knowledge and resources about health and their rights.
Since 1993, Women for Women International’s global community has invested in the power of over 550,000 women across 17 conflict-affected countries, to create a ripple effect that makes the world more equal, peaceful, and prosperous.
Right now, more than 600 million women and girls live in areas affected by conflict.
In only five years there’s been a 50% increase.
By supporting Women for Women International and its work across 17 conflict-affected countries, the funds raised through the Car Boot Sale will be invested in women’s recovery, power and place in the peacebuilding process, which is needed now more than ever.
Last year, the Car Boot Sale hosted 26 car boots, raising more than £280,000 in one day and bringing the total raised to more than £1.2 million to help women survivors of war since its launch in 2016.
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