LONDON (REUTERS) — Take your pick for charity — model Kate Moss’ underwear or comedian Harry Enfield’s smiling pants. An auction organized by Rachel Collingwood’s photography agency is raising money for a children’s refuge in Tanzania, and 11 British celebrities have each customized a T-shirt and pants set for the occasion.
“Kate Moss has been bidden on by men of a certain age,” said studio manager Lindsay Cameron. Her garments feature handprints and hearts with “I love Kate Moss” scrawled across the front of the T-shirt.
But Cameron said the designer Wayne Hemmingway — whose set features the Queen’s silver jubilee emblem and the words “the year that made me” — was just ahead with the highest bid of $186.50 to Moss’s $158.
Other creations include weaver Peter Collingwood’s T-shirt with colored wool taped to the chest above the legend “hairy fairy.” Liberty Ross, tipped to become the next Kate Moss, submitted a top soaked in pvc glue and designed as a lampshade.
Asked how they had recruited their celebrity designers, Rachel Collingwood told Reuters: “You always know someone slightly famous.”
The underwear is exhibited in the company’s London studio, and the organizers estimate that as many bids have come from visitors and clients as from online enthusiasts.
More than $1,435 has been raised so far; bidding will close Saturday.
