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Designer of Downie's suits raises money with keychains - carebread - 12-16-2016

Quote:TORONTO -- Keychains made from scraps of leather used to tailor Gord Downie's eye-catching metallic suits are going up for sale -- for a good cause.

Fashion designer Izzy Camilleri, who created Downie's look on the Tragically Hip's "Man Machine Poem" tour, says she's using leftover pieces to raise money for brain cancer research.

She came up with the idea after the band wrapped the tour in August.

The leather remaining from Downie's seven suit designs has been repurposed into 1,000 keychains shaped like guitars and embossed with .courageforgord.

Each will sell for $25 on the CourageForGord.org website. Proceeds go to the Gord Downie Fund for Brain Cancer Research at Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital.

Camilleri says the extra leather was originally meant for minor repairs and alterations to Downie's suits during the tour. But after the final Kingston, Ont., concert she decided to hang onto the material anyway.
Each of the seven outfits was named after someone who Downie considered instrumental in helping him prepare for the tour.

The gold suit was coined "Paul" for Hip bandmate Paul Langlois, the silver suit was dubbed "Patrick" after Downie's brother and the turquoise suit "Edgar" was dedicated to his father, who died last year.

Downie's assistant "Jenn" has her name tied to the acid green suit while two musical icons also have a nod -- the purple suit is called "Prince" and the mirror ball suit is "Bowie."

Camilleri's hot pink suit design was named after herself.

Two custom leather jackets will also be up for auction on the website starting Saturday. Both were created "in the spirit of what she designed for Downie." One is in metallic silver sized in a men's large while a metallic pink female version is sized medium.

Camilleri says she hopes to raise $25,000 from both the keychains and jackets.

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Re: Designer of Downie's suits raises money with keychains - Tthip - 12-16-2016

I really wanted the purple but it has been sold out.
If anyone has an extra purple or wants to trade for my pink keychain, please let me know.
(My favorite artists are The Hip and Prince and the aptly named "Prince" keychain fullfills both my worlds)

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Re: Designer of Downie's suits raises money with keychains - Joe - 12-16-2016

Wow. Didn't even know about this. Bummer they're all gone. Cool idea

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Re: Designer of Downie's suits raises money with keychains - Scotty12 - 12-19-2016

Very sad to have missed on this. I dont "follow" the facebook groups, the notifications became a clog on my feed, so I hid them.

Willing to trade some cash or other hip items to anyone with extras

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Re: Designer of Downie's suits raises money with keychains - Shane Kroeker - 12-23-2016

Would love to see a company like Upper Deck work with the band to release a trading card set to chronicle the bands history. Could include autographs of each band member, relic cards including swatches of suits/ handkerchiefs.
That would be amazing...

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Re: Designer of Downie's suits raises money with keychains - Tthip - 02-23-2017

Tomorrow
Friday, February 24 10am. est

The black keychain collection will be released for sale.
Gord did not wear a black suit, but each ring has a swab of his leftover suit material included with the ring

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Re: Designer of Downie's suits raises money with keychains - Scotty12 - 02-24-2017

Had to change my shipping address, hovered my mouse over "checkout" for a few moments pondering the purchase and it cost me.

By that time(10:02-10:03?) #12 & #16 were also sold out.

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