Girls with cancer contain parade ModaLisboa and … – Daily News – Funchal

The nine girls, eight of which under treatment at the Portuguese Institute of Oncology (IPO) of Lisbon, which helped Philip Sparks to create the collection presented today at ModaLisboa, closed the parade, in Gale Patio, causing commotion in the audience.

“Darling” collection was a standing ovation by many, some with wet eyes and making comments like “was strong.” One by one, walking alongside professional models, girls, aged between six and 16 years, traveled the long ‘passerelle’ the Gale patio with the shy air of one who faces the first time an audience with hundreds of unknown. Participation in the parade was the culmination of a partnership between Philip Sparks and Rui Osório de Castro Foundation (FROC), a nonprofit institution that focuses its activities in the information and scientific area of ​​pediatric cancer. The girls spent two days in the studio of Philip Sparks, who, at first, asked them to draw what that for them is Love. The result was transformed into default, the fashion designer applied in today’s collection presented cuts and dresses tailor made to each of the eight.

As Philip Sparks told Lusa in previous statements for he “made no sense” join this cause contributing only a monetary donation, through an auction, or reversing a percentage of sales for FROC. “I wish there was more connection between what the foundation does and what I do,” he said, deciding why “engage children” in the creation of the collection. According to the director general of the FROC, Mariana Oliveira, nine said “as soon as the parade yes”, although confess some nervousness.

Lusa accompanied one of the workshops’ Philip Sparks with girls and witnessed the excitement and nervousness with which imagined the day of the parade. One of the participants, Rita, confessed to being a “bit nervous” while Beatriz showed some concern about having to parade of Canadian. Already stated that Diana would have “very ashamed.” “But we have to put shame to the side,” he said. And so it did, she and the other eight. In addition to the workshops’ with the children, Philip Sparks will help with a monetary donation FROC: 30% of the value of each piece of the collection “Darling” will be donated to that institution. In addition, the FROC has a stall in the Town Hall, in Lisbon, where are for sale ‘t-shirts’ and printed bags with drawings made in the workshops’.