Victoria Beckham teams up with The Outnet to sell over 600 wardrobe items for HIV awareness

You could own that ivory lace-up Dolce & Gabbana gown Victoria Beckham wore to the MTV Awards in Los Angeles in 2003. From today until August 25, over 600 pieces from the fashion designer's wardrobe are being sold in a charity sale and auction at The Outnet.

With the money raised, 100 per cent of the proceeds will go to a charity initiative called mothers2mothers, or m2m, which is located in South Africa. It trains and employs HIV-positive mothers, under a Mentor Mothers programme, to reach out to other women so as to spread the messsage on keeping families healthy and protecting babies from HIV infection. 

This charity move was the result of a visit by Beckham in February this year to South Africa, where she met Annie Lennox's husband, Dr Mitch Besser, the founder of m2m. 

A few of Beckham's items going up on the charity sale and auction:

 

"Following this visit, Victoria Beckham was so moved by her experience that she decided to raise money and awareness for the charity by selling some of the most iconic items from her wardrobe," says Stephanie Phair, president of The Outnet, which is the outlet spinoff site of high fashion retailer Net-A-Porter.

In addition to the sale, 10 selected items will be sold in a reverse auction from today to August 24, at 9.30am and 3.30pm BST (4.30pm and 10.30pm Singapore time). 

"A lot of these pieces have been made specially for me by the designers. These cannot be bought off the shelf," said Beckham in a video interview posted on The Outnet.

Some of her well-known items in the charity sale and auction include a modest grey Roland Mouret dress she was photographed in while out and about in New York City and a striking yellow Roberto Cavalli number which she wore to a pre-World Cup party she hosted at the Beckhams' country home in 2006. 

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5 minutes with Stephanie Phair, President of TheOutnet.com