On Monday night, Michael Kors will take the stage at the American Museum of Natural History to receive a much-deserved prize. The CFDA is presenting the designer with its Positive Change Award in recognition of his decades of work advocating for people in need and supporting philanthropic organizations. Among them are God’s Love We Deliver, which cooks and home-delivers nutritious, medically tailored meals for New Yorkers too sick to shop or cook for themselves, and the United Nations World Food Program, with which he launched the Watch Hunger Stop campaign in 2013.
In the last fiscal year, God’s Love supported more than 16,000 clients and their kids and caregivers with 4.3 million meals, an organizational record. Cindy McCain, the World Food Program executive director, has stated that Kors and his company have, “provided millions of nutritious school meals for children over the past ten years.
” Those kinds of numbers are undeniable, but even more persuasive are Kors’s own words on the subject of giving back. He spoke with Vogue about his history of doing good. Do you remember an early experience that triggered this lifetime of giving back? I grew up as an only child, and I think my mom wanted me to realize that the world was not filled with only children.
She always stressed—never using the word empathy, because I was too small—that you have to be aware that not everyone is in your situation, and to think about other people. I remember being really little on Ha.
