ASID to Style 200 Pairs of TOMS Shoes for Donation to Chicago Kids’ Camp with Samaritan’s Feet

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 4, 2012) |The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) is excited to announce Style Your Sole, a community outreach event to take place June 11 – 13 in Chicago during NeoCon, the interior design industry’s largest tradeshow. Conference attendees are invited to style more than 200 pairs of TOMS shoes for donation to a Chicago daycare center.

The event will also include a silent auction featuring exclusively-styled shoes by noted members of the design community including

• Venus Williams, professional athlete and CEO of V Starr Interiors
• Dale Chihuly, renowned glass artist
• Susan S. Szenasy, editor in chief and Carli Heggen, new media coordinator, Metropolis magazine
• Michael Murphy and Alan Ricks, founders of MASS Design Group
• Michael S. Smith, founder of Michael S. Smith Inc. and interior designer for the Obama White House

One hundred percent of the proceeds from the event will benefit Samaritan’s Feet, an international humanitarian organization dedicated to providing shoes for communities in need.

The styled shoes will be distributed to children at Channing’s Child Care in Chicago on June 13.  More information is available at www.asid.org/custom/asidatneocon/styleyoursole.asp

About ASID
The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) is a community of people—designers, industry representatives, educators and students—committed to interior design. Through education, knowledge sharing, advocacy, community building and outreach, the Society strives to advance the interior design profession and, in the process, to demonstrate and celebrate the power of design to positively change people’s lives. Its more than 36,000 members engage in a variety of professional programs and activities through a network of 48 chapters throughout the United States and Canada. www.asid.org

About Samaritan’s Feet
Samaritan’s Feet, founded by Nigerian born Manny Ohonme and his wife Tracie, is a 501(c)(3) humanitarian aid organization that shares a message of hope and love by distributing new shoes and washing the feet of under-served individuals around the world. There are an estimated 300 million children who go without shoes every day and more than 1 million that die each year from foot-borne disease. The organization’s goal is to provide 10 million pairs of shoes and, since 2003, Samaritan’s Feet has helped to provide shoes for an estimated 3.5 million individuals in over 62 nations. Learn more at www.samaritansfeet.org.

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