I couldn't let Earth Day pass without doing a post on our most excellent spokesmodel Elettra. As some of you might know, Elettra is not only a model but a student and a serious environmentalist. She's studying biomedicine at the London School of Economics and was explaining her thesis to me the other day. (It has to do with global warming and farming. I'm not sure how much I'm allowed to say, but it was fascinating.) The girl's a total braniac.
And she happens to be as beautiful as she is smart, as these pictures attest. They're from the new issue of InStyle UK. If you live in the U.K. or near an international newsstand, pick up the issue! Elettra's definitely blessed genetically (mom is the legendarily beautiful Isabella Rossellini and dad was a model once upon a time) but she works out a lot to maintain her shape. She told InStyle that to keep her arms tone she'll do 30 pushups at a time and 60-90 when she's with her trainer. (Um, I can't even do one!)
Elettra has a great charity called Just One Frickin' Day that focuses on individual charity projects. Her current initiative is getting solar electricity panels for a hospital in Burundi, the world's poorest country. The hospital has no electricity, so once the sun sets, doctors operate wearing miners' helmets. Can you imagine?
To raise funds last year, Elettra got some of her designer pals like Chris Benz, Rag & Bone and Phillip Lim to design t-shirts. Anyone making a donation of a certain amount received a t-shirt. The shirts sold out, but Lancome made a small donation and got its hands on a special stash. We partnered with several of our favorite blogs on a giveaway today where you can get one of the t-shirts and one of our new Juicy Tubes 100% Natural Origin. Below is a list of the blogs. Make sure to check them out and leave a comment. You never know!
And stop by Just One Frickin' Day to learn more about its Burundi project.
Fab Over 40
Karla Sugar
Blogdorf Goodman
Fete a Fete
The Hungry Asian
