Trelise Cooper signs a T-shirt featuring her design. Photo / Martin Sykes
Trelise Cooper signs a T-shirt featuring her design. Photo / Martin Sykes
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Fashion designer Trelise Cooper signs the T-shirt she designed worn by Dolma Chuan at the launch of this year's Breast Cancer Research T-Shirt Campaign yesterday.
Swans, angel fish, chains and guns feature in the T-shirt designs for the Glassons-Breast Cancer Research Trust campaign, which was launched yesterday atthe fashion house's Queen St outlet.
The campaign, which has generated $2.2 million for breast cancer research over the past five years, enlists the country's leading designers to create fashion for a good cause.
The T-shirts, and for the first time, singlets, retail for $29.99, with $10 of each sale going towards the trust.
The handiwork of campaign stalwarts Karen Walker, Kate Sylvester, Trelise Cooper, Zambesi, and new additions Ruby and Cybele, were made with the theme Kiss off Breast Cancer in mind.
Kate Sylvester's design of two angel fish kissing was inspired by a pair she saw while snorkelling in Vanuatu.
"The image of two fish kissing makes me smile every time."
Trelise Cooper's birds of a feather design, meanwhile, features two swans forming a heart shape. She said swans, which commit to each other for life, symbolise the coming together with love to conquer breast cancer.
The T-shirts are available in Glassons stores now.
New Zealand has one of the highest rates of breast cancer in the world, with the disease affecting one in every 10 women.
