Prevent Cancer Foundation Chosen as Charitable Partner for Alloro Collection’s New Fashion Line for Women with Breast Cancer
Community Outreach - The Prevent Cancer Foundation is honored to be named as the first charitable partner for the Alloro Collection, a unique and chic clothing line specifically designed for women who have undergone breast cancer treatment. The line includes clothing and accessories that are constructed to meet the physical needs of women recovering from treatment, while lifting their spirits with fashionable and colorful designs. The Foundation is proud to help Alloro fulfill their mission of helping breast cancer survivors “recapture the joy” both emotionally and financially. Twenty-five percent of the profits will go toward breast cancer prevention research and educational programs that target underserved women. [caption id="attachment_10029" align="alignright" width="300"] Alloro co-founders Christine Irvin & Laurel Kamen. (photo coutesy of allorocollection.com)[/caption] The idea for this collection was born when founder and breast cancer survivor Laurel Kamen was about to undergo a double mastectomy. On the evening before her surgery, Kamen discovered that sophisticated clothing was not available to women recovering from breast cancer treatment. Kamen then recruited her friend Christine Irvin, an artist and Wall Street veteran, and her cousin Roedean Landeaux, a New York City couturier, to help her create a fashion line that would help women with breast cancer feel good about themselves, despite ...
