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A Stay at The Four Seasons Tented Camps Inspires Couple to Save the Elephants
2/26/2008 at 2:16 PM
Tags: Hotels Doing Good, Elephants, Four Seasons Hotels, Luxury Tents
When you mention Manolo Blahnik, Four Seasons and elephants all in the same sentence, our ears will totally prick up.
Recently, the luxe shoe designer pledged his support to the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation by doing what he does best, designing a (limited-edition) shoe.
Available as of March in the US the Blahnik designed D'orsay pump with patent brown trimming and patent brown 90mm heel will feature Congo leopard print pony (fake) leather. The shoes will exclusively be sold through Footcandy Shoe Stores in California but can be shipped anywhere in the world. It will retail at approximately $600 with proceeds going to the GTAEF conservation project.
Luckily for us, unluckily for our wallet, there is a FootCandy store just a few miles from our house. As for the shoe, we don't have a picture of it yet but it will look something like this.
Now you must be wondering, how does the Four Seasons play into all this?
Well, when Perry and Carolyn Butler visited the Four Seasons Golden Triangle Tented Camp--15 luxury tents overlooking the Ruak River--in 2006 they "fell in love" with the resident adopted elephants.
Since Perry is a Napa Vintner and Carolyn is the owner of FootCandy, they decided to contribute to the GTAEF conservation project by first putting out the Juslyn Vineyard `Rescue' wine label.
The 2001 Napa Blend, a Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc blend is rated at 90 Parker points. The wine is available in a set of three 750 ml bottles, 1.5l bottles as well as Magnum 3.0l bottles and can be shipped anywhere in the US and select countries overseas.
Then last year, Carolyn approached Manolo Blahnik to design a special shoe for the conservation project and he agreed.
So who knows, if you visit the Four Seasons Tented Camps, you might just walk away starting your own charity for elephants. Not that it should take a luxury hotel stay to convince you to give back to Mother Nature and her creatures, but you get our drift.
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