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Tees for trees

Posted on November 1st 2008

Brazilian fashion designer Carlos Miele has launched a range of T-shirts as a fundraiser for the Rainforest Foundation.

Brazilian fashion designer Carlos Miele has launched a range of T-shirts as a fundraiser for the Rainforest Foundation. Miele invited personalities including Scarlett Johansson, Michael Roberts, Camilla Belle, Caroline Trentini, Diana Picasso, Alice Braga and Bebel Gilberto to create a T-shirt for the range. Having long been motivated to preserve the environment and the traditions of indigenous people, Miele’s collection cements a longstanding relationship with the Rainforest Foundation.

Carlos Miele

Carlos Miele’s ability to mesh his design and entrepreneurial skills with a social conscience, employing over 1 500 people from the favelas of Sao Paulo, has made Carlos a household name in his native Brazil, as well as in New York, Paris and Milan.

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