Designer Johny Dar, center, and the models receive the applause after the 'Jeans For Refugees project' fashion show Friday, July 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Giving the shirt off your back used to be ultimate sign of generosity.
But Hollywood stars Sharon Stone, Benicio Del Toro and Emma Watson have gone one better, donating their trousers for a new charity drive called “Jeans for Refugees.”
Singers Elton John and Lily Allen have also handed over their denims to the American artist and designer Johny Dar to transform and then auction them off for the International Rescue Committee (IRC).
Within hours of the jeans going up on the online auction site Catawiki, someone had already bid 5,000 euros ($5,500) for Stone’s, while the multicolored makeover of the singer Pink’s jeans had reached 3,000 euros Tuesday.
Claudia Schiffer attends a special screening of “Kingsman: The Secret Service” February 9 2015, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Other stars who have also reached into their wardrobes to help include rock legend Mick Jagger, models Claudia Schiffer, Kate Moss and Elle Macpherson, and actresses Eva Longoria and Audrey Tautou and singer-turned-designer Victoria Beckham.
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“The world refugee crisis has had an impact on everyone,” said the designer Dar, adding that the online auction would close in October.
The IRC was founded by the scientist Albert Einstein in 1933 to help people escaping the Nazi regime in Germany.
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