Fashion Targets Breast Cancer Explained

Fashion Targets Breast Cancer is a charity campaign originally launched in the UK in 1996 by Breakthrough Breast Cancer,^[1] and now operated under the charity's new name Breast Cancer Now. Corporate partners for the campaign represent famous high-street brands, including M & S, Topshop, and River Island. M & S has sold a wide range of charitable women's clothes for Breast Cancer Now^[2] for many years. The campaign is best known for its famous 'target' logo T-shirt designed by Ralph Lauren.^[3] Since 1996, Fashion Targets Breast Cancer has raised over £14 million to fund pioneering breast cancer research.^[4]

Campaigns

• 2016 - Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss
• 2015 - Foxes, Abbey Clancy, Lily Donaldson, and Alice Dellal^[5]
• 2014 - Emeli Sandé, Jessica Ennis-Hill and Laura Bailey
• 2013 - Sharon Osbourne, Kelly Osbourne, Pearl Lowe and Daisy Lowe
• 2012 - Georgia May Jagger and Pixie Geldof
• 2011 - Cat Deeley, Karen Gillan and Sadie Frost^[6]
• 2010 - Kylie Minogue, Claudia Schiffer and Sienna Miller
• 2009 - Million Model Catwalk - Leah Wood, Sarah Ferguson, Jade Jagger, Bryan Ferry, Abigail Clancy, Sara Cox, Duncan James and June Sarpong
• 2008 - Anna Friel, Natalie Imbruglia, Alan Carr, Edith Bowman and Twiggy^[7]
• 2007 - Sophie Dahl^[8]
• 2006 - Claudia Schiffer, Helena Christensen, Eva Herzigova, Jerry Hall, Yasmin Le Bon, Erin O'Connor, Laura Bailey, Lily Cole, Jasmine Guinness and Liberty Ross^[9]
• 2005 - Jade Jagger^[10]
• 2004 - Elle Macpherson^[11]
• 2003 - Jodie Kidd, Edith Bowman^[12]
• 2002 - Helena Christensen
• 2000 - Gisele Bündchen,^[13] Twiggy and Kate Moss^[14]
• 1998 - Yasmin Le Bon^[15]
• 1996 - Naomi Campbell,^[16] Christy Turlington and Saffron Aldridge

See also

• List of Marks & Spencer brands

External links

• • Breast Cancer Now
• Fashion Blogging

Notes and References

1. The Daily Telegraph "Breast cancer campaign 'too youthful' for older women, charities admit", (2003) October 29.
2. Web site: M&S. 30 April 2018 .
3. The Guardian "T-shirts target breast cancer", (2004) April 10.
4. Web site: About the campaign. Breast Cancer Now. 19 May 2016.
5. Web site: M&S, River Island and Topshop unite for Fashion Targets Breast Cancer. The Drum. 19 May 2016.
6. Web site: Missing Database Table.
7. Web site: Fashion Targets Breast Cancer 2008 . 12 May 2008 . Cosmopolitan . 28 January 2022.
8. Web site: Sophie Dahl fronts new breast cancer campaign . Payne . Joanne . 1 May 2007 . Campaign . 28 January 2022.
9. Web site: Claudia Schiffer strikes a pose for Fashion Targets Breast Cancer . 27 April 2006 . Glamour . https://web.archive.org/web/20130328073941/https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/celebrity/pictures-today/2006/04/27/on-target . 28 March 2013 . 28 January 2022.
10. Web site: Jade Jagger is new face of breast cancer campaign . Wood . Dominic . 20 April 2005 . ThirdSector . 28 January 2022.
11. Web site: Elle Mcpherson Fashion Targets Breast Cancer in Dublin: Photos & Wallpapers... . Senior . Raymond . ShowBiz Ireland . 28 January 2022.
12. Web site: Breast cancer campaign 'too youthful' for older women, charities admit . 29 October 2003 . The Telegraph . https://web.archive.org/web/20121111195136/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/3303062/Breast-cancer-campaign-too-youthful-for-older-women-charities-admit.html . 11 November 2012 . 28 January 2022.
13. Web site: Fashion Targets Breast Cancer 2000 at Saks Fifth Avenue . gettyimages . 28 January 2022.
14. Web site: Twiggy: a model life through the years . fashion.telegraph.co.uk . 31 January 2022.
15. Web site: Yasmin Le Bon - advertisement . Yasmin Le Bon . https://web.archive.org/web/20160305053004/http://www.yasminlebon.net/ads/fashiontargets.html . 5 March 2016 . 31 January 2022.
16. Web site: NAOMI CAMPBELL (FEBRUARY 2007) . 30 September 2010 . enigma-mag.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20140125210023/https://www.enigma-mag.com/interview_archives/?p=200. 25 January 2014 . 31 January 2022.