{"id":12932,"date":"2011-10-20T00:38:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T04:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatshaute.com\/?p=12932"},"modified":"2011-10-20T00:38:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T04:38:12","slug":"haute-and-about-whats-haute-at-the-nicole-miller-x-indego-africa-cocktail-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/haute-and-about-whats-haute-at-the-nicole-miller-x-indego-africa-cocktail-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Haute and about: What’s Haute at the Nicole Miller x Indego Africa cocktail party"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nicole-Miller-x-Indego-Africa-Emelienne-Nyiramana-Therese-Iribagiza\"<\/a>We rave on and on about endless designer collaborations<\/a> but the most important ones are the ones that enable us to truly give back. Last night I attended a cocktail party at the Nicole Miller<\/a> boutique in SoHo to celebrate her partnership with Indego Africa<\/a> (Independence. Development. Governance.), an organization that partnered with Cocoki<\/strong> (Cooperative de Couture de Kicukiro<\/strong>), a sewing cooperative of over 40 women in Kigali, Rwanda. This is Nicole’s second collaboration with Indego and at Tuesday night’s event I got the chance to chat with two of the women involved with the partnership. I met Emelienne Nyiramana<\/strong> and Therese Iribagiza<\/strong>, two master seamstresses who worked with Nicole for a week of hands-on training in her atelier. The results of their work: a chic collection of kente print accessories including handbags<\/a>, braided and fabric-wrapped bracelets<\/a>, multi-strand necklaces<\/a>, plus cute printed shorts<\/a> and sarongs, along with the haute dress Nicole Miller was wearing. Unfortunately it wasn’t for sale, but it may be included in future collections \u2013 stay tuned! Anyway, I truly appreciate what Nicole is doing \u2013 helping these women to empower themselves by giving them skills they can use to work independently going forward. Plus I love that the entire collection is under $100<\/strong>, so there’s no excuse for us not to support it, right?
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\nCheck out some of the goods from the Nicole Miller x Indego Africa<\/strong> below and you can shop the collection on her website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fabric-wrapped bracelets, $25 for a set of 3; Sarongs, $65:
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\nShorts, $65:
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\nTote bags, $60:
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\nNecklace, $35\/single strand, $60\/2 strands, $85\/3 strands:
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\nBraided bracelets: $20 each (not pictured)<\/p>\n

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We rave on and on about endless designer collaborations but the most important ones are the ones that enable us to truly give back. Last night I attended a cocktail party at the Nicole Miller boutique in SoHo to celebrate her partnership with Indego Africa (Independence. Development. Governance.), an organization that partnered with Cocoki (Cooperative […] Read More \u00bb <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2075,929],"tags":[212,9965,8222,9964,9969,9966,202,576,9967,9968,753,9970],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12932"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12932"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12951,"href":"http:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12932\/revisions\/12951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}