Fashion Houston 2011
Featured Participants
Lauren Bush
Lauren Bush is the CEO and co-founder of FEED Projects, a charitable company with the mission of creating good products that help feed the world. Each FEED bag sold provides hungry children with school meals through the United Nations World Food Program. Lauren has been an Honorary Spokesperson for the WFP since 2004 and helped launch their Universities Fighting Hunger initiative, which educates and engages university age students in the fight against world hunger. Over the past four years Lauren has traveled to Guatemala, Cambodia, Lesotho, Sri Lanka, Chad, Tanzania, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, and Honduras with the WFP to see the realities of poverty and hunger, and the WFP's food aid distributions. She came back from these trips inspired to help in the fight against hunger. She conceptualized and designed the initial FEED 1 bag in 2005 as a measurable way to raise money for the WFP's School Feeding Program.
In 2007 she started FEED Projects LLC with her business partner, Ellen Gustafson, by producing an eco-friendly tote that helps raise money for Food for Education programs around the world. In 2008, FEED Projects donated over $5 million dollars to the UN World Food Program's school feeding program, which equates to over 55,000,000 meals for school children. Lauren is also the Chairman of the Board and co-founder of the FEED Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit organization with the vision of a sustainable food system and a well-nourished world. www.feedprojects.com and www.thefeedfoundation.org.
In 2008, Lauren launched a new fashion brand, Lauren Pierce Atelier (www.LaurenPierceAtelier.com). By sourcing fabric that is handmade by artisans around the world, as well as eco-friendly fabrics, this women's wear line lives up to high environmental and humanitarian standards. For her Fall '09 collection, Lauren Pierce used hand-woven silk from women in Cambodia, while also highlighting the work of the Somaly Mam Foundation. Barneys New York has been the main retailer of the line since it started.
Lauren Bush recently launched a new project on behalf of the UN World Food Programme to fight world hunger. The project is called FEED Projects.
Lauren was born in Denver, Colorado, and grew up in Houston, Texas. As a model, Lauren has carved her own niche in the fashion world and was featured on the cover of various publications such as Vogue Australia, Glamour, Tatler, W, and Town and Country. Lauren graduated from Princeton University in 2006 with a B.A. in Anthropology and certificate in Photography. She now resides in New York City, where she works on FEED, Lauren Pierce, and other socially conscious and eco-friendly projects. In 2008, she was given the Marie Claire Prix De La Moda Humanitarian Award for her work on FEED. And in 2009, she was honored as a Fortune Most Powerful Women Entrepreneur. And in 2010, she was included on Inc's "30 Under 30" List.
