Since 2003, fashion’s greatest designers have taken action each year to help children throughout the world, creating collectors’ dolls especially for UNICEF.
Each one is a work of art and unique.
Frimousses created by the world’s top fashion designers will be exhibited from 18 to the 23 November 2008 at the Petit Palais in Paris.
The designer dolls will then be sold at auction, either on the internet for the first time this year, or on 27 November 2008 at Drouot Montaigne, Paris’s prestigious auction house.

All the money raised from the sale goes to UNICEF to finance its vaccination programmes.
In 2007, UNICEF used 220,000 euros from the sale to fund 250 centres in Darfur vaccinating under-five-year-olds against the six most deadly or disabling childhood diseases: tuberculosis, measles, polio, diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus.
Since the beginning of the Designer Frimousse sales, 31,000 children have been vaccinated thanks to the funds raised.

This year once again, nearly 100 designers and artists will participate in the project, which is organised by UNICEF France and
whose godmother is Laeticia Hallyday, wife of France’s famous singer Johnny Hallyday.