Finola has designed a one-of-a-kind denim jacket for the Swarovski Celebrity Designed Charity Auction. All proceeds will benefit SOS Childrens Villages. An organization which helps provide for orphaned and abandoned children. Their mission is to build families for children in need, help them shape their own futures and share in the development of their communities.
Each celebrity was given the same denim jacket to embellish with beautiful Swarovski Crystals, some arranged in special custom patterns. Hughes's contribution is as dark and mysterious as the daytime soap character she has played off and on for over twenty years. Dyed a mottled black overall, the jacket's back panel features an enormous human skull in gloss black fabric paint— rendering an eerie, tone-on-tone effect—embellished with dazzling clear crystals. Still more clear crystals were used to recreate the SOS Children's Villages—the auction beneficiary—logo along the left front beltline. And on the inside rear beltline, Finola and her husband (photographer Russell Young) have each signed their names in metallic ink. One of the auction's most wholly original designs. There is a small color defect at the left front shoulder. Currently host of The Style Network's popular makeover series How Do I Look, Finola Hughes is perhaps best known for her Emmy award- winning "Anna Devane," the mysterious character she originated on General Hospital in 1985, reprised on All My Children, and resurrected yet again with a summer 2007 return to GH. Born and educated in London, Hughes originated the part of "The White Cat" in the premiere company of Cats, moving from there to a series of film and television parts. With a jewelry line on QVC, a novel—Soapsuds— in bookstores, and a role as spokeswoman for the Damazo Majak Foundation (an organization aiding refugees afflicted bythe crisis in Darfur), Finola is the definition of "multi-talented."
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