Model Volunteers Help Promote Streetwear Fashion

Along with more pigeon apparel, Jeff Staple’s fall and winter collection is focused on community service or something. Observing “that as unemployment started going up lately, many people, of all ages, were heading back to the volunteer workforce,” Staple wanted to highlight this “silver-lining,” so he put some do-gooders to work. His new lookbook features volunteers from God’s Love We Deliver, Housing Works, and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society modeling his “Community Works” line alongside brief interviews about helping less fortunate folks.

Cleaning up graffiti was the punishment for a few Brooklynites charged with minor offenses like walking in between subway cars, drinking in public, splashing beer on a cop, and misusing a student Metrocard. District Attorney Charles Hynes’ Alternative Programs Unit puts minor offenders to work cleaning up rather than facing stiffer, less productive penalties. |NYDN|