Saks Fifth Avenue Partners With charity: water

ABOUT THE FOUNDER
In August 2004, after a 10-year foray into special event planning and promotions business, Scott Harrison left New York to serve for a year as a volunteer photojournalist onboard the Mercy Ship Anastasis to impoverished Liberia, West Africa. Upon returning to his home in New York City in September 2005, he tested the idea behind charity: water by producing a large exhibition of his photographs and videos called mercy. Despite opening in the midst of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, Harrison's mercy show was a success. Visitors contributed more than $96,000 towards providing medical procedures and freshwater wells in West Africa. In October 2005, Harrison returned to West Africa for another 6 month journey, before returning to Manhattan in the spring of 2006 to found charity: water.

ABOUT WET CEMENT
Wet Cement isn't just a brand of clothing; it's a way of life. Each piece is literally a work of art and a moment frozen in time. Wet Cement takes pictures and inspiration from events and happenings around the world. The images are then burned and created using a 500-watt halogen bulb, and rinsed out in a bathtub with a paintbrush and a garden hose. Each piece is then custom screened by hand on vintage, burned-out material, so each shirt is unique from any other shirt in the world.