Tommy Hilfiger launches the sunglasses collection Promise

Katie Holmes, international ambassador of Tommy Hilfiger for The Promise Collection, supports Millennium Promise and efforts of the Foundation to sensitize opinion in the difficult situation of the Africain groups living in extreme poverty, as well as in the remarkable changes implemented by Millennium Promise to give a lasting future in these groups.

The Promise Collection by Tommy Hilfiger Eyewear sports two classical styles with Africain forms, colours and natural wood effects. All recipes drawn by sales of the Collection will be transferred to different plans in Villages Millennium. The collection offered in limited edition will be available in different stores Tommy Hilfiger in Europe, in the United States, in Mexico and in India, in Macy' s and on Tommy.com in April, 2012.

« The glasses of The Promise Collection draw inspiration from Africa: colours and local textures the blue, the green, the yellow and the red of traditional dresses, landscapes and sky », declares Tommy Hilfiger. « The Collection reinterprates some of our typically American models with motives and of Africain forms. » The unique range of glasses is endowed with the logo and with present audacious motives in the collectionde tiny clothes The Promise Collection. Recipes drawn by sales of The Promise Collection by Tommy Hilfiger Eyewear are intended to help the inhabitants of Ruhiira, a Village Millennium in Uganda, to acquire better care and treatments of eyes. As an example, a party of recipes will serve for financing special days of eye care, where the inhabitants will be able to use free consultations several times per year. Those who need corrective glasses, that it is about children or about adults, will also benefit from this financing, and a particular attention will be granted to those whom view needs to be ameliorated for job oul' school.