Yeka Girls x Kim Smiley Benefit 2022
Event attendees selected an assortment of Kim Smiley’s handcrafted jewelry to purchase, where 25% of the sales were donated directly to Yeka Girls, a Ukrainian-Jewish organization based in California assisting young girls and families worldwide.
On December 6th, 2022, I had the pleasure of co-chairing the first ever Yeka Girls x Kim Smiley Fashion Show Fundraiser, hosted at Kim Smiley’s flagship jewelry store in Midtown Toronto. 75 mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts, grandmothers, and friends flooded the showroom to purchase Kim Smiley’s unique pieces ranging from necklaces to cuff bracelets. A quarter of each jewelry sale was donated directly to Yeka Girls so they could begin running their annual camps for young girls across the globe. Alongside my co-chair, we led a committee of 6 women who assisted us with flawlessly executing this incredible event where we recruited fashion models within the Toronto Jewish Community in addition to collaborating with DANI Toronto on having some of their physical and neurodiverse participants present their crowd-pleasing personal styles.
Model from DANI Toronto showing her dance moves during the Yeka Girls x Kim Smiley Fashion Show.
