New York Fashion Week Gets Wild With a Dinner for Tiffany & Co.

"I feel as if I've landed somewhere very exotic," Frank Pope said on Saturday night at Barbuto, from where he stood surrounded by rapt well-wishers from the worlds of Hollywood, fashion, "Influence," and whoever else summoned by the siren song of New York Fashion Week As the CEO of the Kenya-based wildlife charity Save the Elephants, Pope continued, he's used to an entirely different kind of jungle The reason for Saturday's migration to downtown Manhattan? To celebrate the newest Save the Wild collection of brooches and charms from Tiffany & Co, from which 100 percent of the proceeds go to the #KnotOnMyPlanet campaign benefiting the Elephant Crisis Fund and Wildlife Conservation Network.

The new collection, which has an articulated, rigorous aesthetic different than the previous abstract swoops, also includes animals other than just elephants, Knot on My Planet's global ambassador Doutzen Kroes explained The new recipients of Tiffany's largesse will now also include the rhinoceros and the lion, the latter of which found a new ambassador in Jordan Barrett Ivory is increasingly outlawed across the planet, but a global market still prizes it: The recent poaching of dozens of elephants in the protected environs of Botswana underlined the ongoing nature of the crisis.

Tiffany's initiative has made a life-changing difference not just for the elephants but for the human beings who risk their lives every day to protect them, Pope said-but even those who are unable to donate can still make a difference. . Source