PPR is one of the largest Luxury group in the world and parent company of Gucci, Balenciaga, Stella McCartney, Bottega Veneta, YSL, and more. This week they launched the PPR Foundation for Women’s Dignity and Rights to develop and support solidarity projects in partnership with Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs).

The site is rich in its compilation of information and resources (and in my opinion the formatting could use some clarity). After looking well in every corner of the website, I was moved by several projects that the Foundation is supporting. And I aplaude the group for their efforts, time and dedication to Women.

Catherine Cabrol’s Photography:

To mark the International Women’s Day, on March, 8, 2009, the PPR Corporate Foundation for Women’s Dignity and Rights wished to raise Head Office and then Brands employee’s awareness of violence towards women with the exhibition “Injuries to Women”. 26 portraits of women by the artiste Catherine Cabrol were hung…

Desert Flower, by director Sherry Hormann, is the true story of Waris Dirie:

She fled Somalia to avoid a forced marriage in her early teens and having suffered all kinds of indignities in London, finally became a model. At the height of her career she publically announced that as a child she had been circumcised – and subsequently gave up her top model career to campaign against FGM (female genitale mutilation) which is carried out against 6,000 girls and women worldwide every day.