New York Fashion Week

February 13ththru 20

, 2009

-SPONSORSHIP PROPOSAL-

DESIGNERS& A RTISTS FORD ARFUR” ‹ 2 › Sponsorship Proposal

Dear Sponsor,As we commemorate our 2

Anniversary, we seek your company’s sponsorship for Designers forDarfur, an organization committed to using our talents and voices on behalf of the silenced peopleof Darfur.Designers for Darfur in association with the Projects Gallery will present “DESIGNERS&ARTISTS FORDARFUR” a collaborative fashion and art exhibition highlighting the industry’s premier andemerging fashion designers and artists. The mission of this event is to raise awareness and fundson behalf of the Save Darfur Coalition as they move forward in their efforts to assist the victimsand refugees of Darfur. The exhibition will run from February 13

thru 20

, 2009 during thefashion industry’s most visible event, New York Fashion Week. The exhibition will be capped offwith a Closing Ceremony and Auction to be held on February20

, 2009.As a sponsor of theDESIGNERS &ARTISTS FORDARFUR exhibition your company will have the unique branding opportunity to promote your product and services to the fashion and artindustries’ elite as well as the world’s most influential decision and tastemakers. Sponsorshipbenefits include extensive press coverage, prominent name and product placement throughout theevent, program book advertisements, sample product distribution, inclusion in press releases to besent globally, and massive internet marketing. Most importantly, you will be supplied with theopportunity of sending a resounding message that your organization is playing an active role inending the crisis in Darfur.

MORE ABOUT Designers For Darfur

Designers For Darfur was founded in 2006 by designer Malcolm Harris (Mal Sirrah, Inc.) and co-chaired by model/heiress Lydia Hearst. In association with Fashion Television and the Save DarfurCoalition, Designers For Darfur was launched via an unprecedented charity fashion show held onFebruary 9, 2007 at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City. Designers For Darfur nowrepresents hundreds of international designers and the wider fashion community collectivelybanding together to show their commitment and solidarity towards ending the atrocities currentlytaking place in Darfur.

DESIGNERS& A RTISTS FORD ARFUR” ‹ 3 › Sponsorship Proposal

MORE ABOUT New York Fashion Week

For the past thirteen years, New York City has hosted New York Fashion Week an event that wasoriginally created with a mission to organize, centralize and modernize the American (Fashion)Collections and provide a platform for American fashion designers to become major players in theglobal fashion business.New York Fashion Week now attracts a record number of global industry executives, national andinternational press as well as celebrities and high-profile individuals from every corner of theglobe. This biannual event generates and garners thousands of articles and hundreds of hours oftelevision coverage.