Profits from 'Creative Caring' sample sale and auction will go to relief efforts.

Los Angeles, CA-The fashion community chose to band together with a sample sale and silent auction in response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster. Creative Caring, sponsored by the Margaret Maldonado Agency and HIS, will spread profits among several worthy charities including the American Red Cross, AmeriCares, America's Second Harvest, Noah's Wish, and the Dream Center.

Mouawad, in response to the disaster, donated a beautiful sapphire and diamond pendant from its Croisette collection. With a retail value of $1,000, the subtle but classic piece is easily added to any woman's jewelry wardrobe.

According to Pascal Mouawad, US Director of Mouawad, the fashion world coming together for an event like Creative Caring is good for the industry. "While we're often focusing on beauty, Creative Caring is an opportunity for us to take the time to focus on society. We are proud to have been included in such illustrious company."

Other contributors to Creative Caring included D&G, Ralph Lauren, Baby Phat, Catherine Malandrino, and Lacoste, among many others. The silent auction's proceeds will go to the Dream Center, a local Los Angeles organization currently helping the 250 families that have been relocated there.

About Mouawad:
The house of Mouawad is celebrated for its extensive collection of exceptional diamonds as well as its couture jewelry design and unique retail philosophy. Founded in 1890, the company is a purveyor of magnificent jewels to many collectors around the world. The main campus of the GIA's world headquarters is named after current Chairman Robert Mouawad in recognition for his contribution to the jewelry industry. Mouawad is famed for adorning the necks, ears and wrists of today's "royalty"-supermodels, singers, actresses and women of style from across the globe.