Alexander Wang and Samsung design a bag for charity

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a global leader in digital media and digital convergence technologies, and New York-based designer Alexander Wang revealed the finished product following months of collaboration with some of the industry’s most creative contributors. The limited-edition Alexander Wang Wallie gym sack is the first co-created bag inspired by crowd-sourced sketches and images created using the GALAXY Note II.
The bag will go on sale this August in key markets around the world and online to raise funds for Art Start, an awardwinning, nationally-recognized charity that uses the arts to nurture the creative talents of at-risk children and youth.
At the start of the year, Wang engaged a group of close friends, stylists, photographers, and others to create “doodles” –
an image, pattern, or a photo – on their Samsung GALAXY Note II device. Through the active idea-capturing and
immediate-sharing benefits, the celebrated New York designer then curated these sketches into one collectively-inspired final print for a unisex drawstring lambskin backpack...