
Cartier’s new LoveCharity bracelets cost about $500, but fashion editors and ad buyers got them for free at last night’s jewelry bash.
Held at the “Cartier Mansion” – a very fancy name for their store – the party boasted “celebrity designers” like Rihanna and Faith Hill wearing their expensive accessory, which is basically a colored silk cord bound by a gold rivet.
Regular customers buying the bracelets get to choose their charity – Julianne Moore’s goes to tuberculosis research, Djimon Hounsou’s aids children in poverty, etc. – and then $100 of their $500 buy goes to the designated foundation.
Last night was a little different – instead of credit cards, the fashion folk whipped out their IDs and were meticulously crossed and double crossed off a list before getting their hands on the tinkly bracelet.
Woe to the certain magazine cutie who asked if he could have an extra gift!






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i’m sure the other $400 went to actually having the party – how pathetic
it’s great that these are for charity, but GOD they are ugly. it looks like something in an atlantic city tourist shop.
Last year Edward Norton had a green one that went to a place in Africa that he supports and I really wanted one but I guess it’s too late now! :(
So then does Cartier still donate $100 to charity for each free bracelet they gave away to the privileged?
I AM NOT PAYING 500 FOR A CHEAP SILK CORD WITH A TINY GOLD GROMMENT ON IT.
They did the same thing last year — I was at that party, and was gifted the charity bracelet.
I’m sorry, but did you really just say you wanted the green bracelet “that went to a place in Africa”? Really? Maybe, the Darfurian genocide?