Two years ago a magnitude seven earthquake devastated Haiti and although the country has slipped from the news, it is still recovering from the disaster. Fashion designer Donna Karan, moved by the plight of the countries continuing struggle is pushing Haiti’s cause to the forefront with her charity, the Urban Zen Foundation. For Christmas, hundreds of plain papier-mâché hearts made by Haitian artisans will be on sale at DKNY’s Bond Street store. Customers can put their own artistic stamp on the hearts and support a worthy cause while creating personalised Yuletide decorations. To celebrate the Hearts for Haiti project, photographer Rankin has designed an installation using the hearts that will adorn DKNY’s windows until after Christmas. But get there quick; this will be a diminishing display, with customers encouraged to pluck and buy the heart they like. Among the blank white hearts there will be a colourful collection designed by 40 celebrities. Having put their artistic skills to the test, these decorated hearts will go to auction in the early new year.

The hearts for Haiti will be sold at all DKNY stores for the price of £5 throughout the Christmas period with all proceeds going to the Urban Zen Foundation. urbanzen.org

At the top of an old Victorian house already serving as Antoni & Alison’s store, the fashion designers have created café Ye Olde World, Super Modern. The room was formerly a space hidden from customers for the designers to sit and dream up collections in, but it has now been transformed into a coffee shop luring its customers with the promise of cake. “We always felt the shop was incomplete – it was like a cake without a cherry on top. This café is our cherry,” say the designers. Customers can now make their way up the narrow staircase to sip hot drinks from fine bone china cups designed by the pair. Not only is the shop the duo's new venture but it also marks 25 years in the industry. We look back at their collections across the decades.

Ye Olde World, Super Modern is at number 43 Rosebery Avenue, EC1 open from November 30th. antoniandalison.co.uk

Selfridges has teamed up with Style House Files, the organisers of Lagos Fashion and Design Week, one of Africa’s leading fashion showcases, to present the best of contemporary African fashion. Featuring a handpicked edit of the most outstanding designers showing at Lagos, N-Dani, which stems from the Swahili word for “inside”, grants us an inside look into Nigeria’s flourishing fashion scene. With Lagos fashion veterans such as Lisa Folawiyo’s label Jewel by Lisa, Lanre Da Silva Ajayi, Eki Orleans, Odio Mimonet and Tiffany Amber, N-Dani also showcases young talents such as Jennifer Adighije’s label House of Silk and Agu, set up by Agu Anumudu. Conjuring up African traditions and imagery with powerful authority, these designers weave traditional African prints, patterns and even fabrics such as Ankara, into ready-to-wear and couture designs that will feel right at home at Selfridges. From Eki Orleans’ signature blown up prints and empire-line dresses to Jewel by Lisa’s heavily embellished ensembles celebrating the body jewellery of the Fulani women, the designers part of N-Dani will give you a glimpse of a whole new fashion world; one that will lure you in to see and want more.

From 1st December until the end of January at Selfridges.