Colman Domingo Emcees Kering’s Caring for Women Gala with Paris Hilton DJ Performance
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New details have emerged about the Kering Foundation's fifth annual Caring for Women Gala, confirming Colman Domingo as emcee and Paris Hilton as DJ for the afterparty, alongside an expanded list of co-hosts including Pamela Anderson, Simone Biles, Benicio Del Toro, Nacho Figueras, Dakota Johnson and Lorna Simpson. The event, taking place on 10 September in New York at The Pool, continues founders Salma Hayek Pinault and François-Henri Pinault's fundraising drive against gender-based violence, with this year's proceeds directed to Activating Change, Fondo Semillas, JBWS and The New York Women's Foundation.
Last year's dinner raised more than $4.5 million (£3.6 million) for survivor support and violence-prevention work, underlining the scale of the initiative as it marks its fifth edition. This year's gala will include a live auction hosted by Lydia Fenet featuring items and experiences from Gucci, Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta, Pomellato and Lorna Simpson. François-Henri Pinault and Kering's chief sustainability officer Marie-Claire Daveu both stressed the foundation's near two-decade commitment to combating gender-based violence and supporting survivors.
- Colman Domingo to emcee, Paris Hilton to DJ Kering's gala
- 2025 dinner raised over $4.5 million for survivor causes
- Proceeds this year go to four gender-violence charities
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Kering is a major French luxury conglomerate that owns fashion houses including Gucci, Balenciaga and Bottega Veneta. Its charitable arm, the Kering Foundation, was set up by the group's chairman and chief executive, François-Henri Pinault, and has spent nearly twenty years funding work against gender-based violence. The Caring for Women Gala is the foundation's flagship annual fundraiser, co-founded with Pinault's wife, the actress Salma Hayek Pinault.
The dinner brings together figures from film, sport and fashion to raise money for organisations that support survivors of violence and work on prevention, with beneficiaries changing each year. It has grown into a fixture on the philanthropic calendar since launching five years ago, and last year's edition raised more than $4.5 million. The event typically combines a formal dinner, a charity auction of donated items and experiences, and an afterparty, drawing attention as much for its celebrity guest list as for its fundraising goals.
Full account
Actor and director Colman Domingo is to host the fifth annual Caring for Women Dinner, the Kering Foundation's flagship fundraiser, which takes place on 10 September at The Pool in New York. Paris Hilton will provide a DJ set at the after-party, adding a further celebrity turn to an evening built around raising money to combat gender-based violence.
The dinner was founded by Salma Hayek Pinault and her husband, Kering and Kering Foundation chairman François-Henri Pinault, and this year's edition will again be co-hosted by the pair alongside Pamela Anderson, Simone Biles, Benicio Del Toro, Nacho Figueras, Dakota Johnson and Lorna Simpson. Pinault said the dinner was created to raise funds for organisations tackling gender-based violence and to rally a wider community behind that cause, adding that the fifth anniversary underlines what can be achieved when the community unites with purpose.
Proceeds this year will go to four beneficiary organisations: Activating Change, Fondo Semillas, JBWS and The New York Women's Foundation. The dinner has grown into a significant fundraising vehicle for the cause, having brought in more than $4.5 million in 2025 alone. As in previous years, guests can expect a live auction of luxury items and experiences donated by Kering's fashion and jewellery houses, with proceeds directed to the beneficiary groups.
Domingo, twice nominated for an Academy Award and a co-chair of the 2025 Met Gala, brings his own profile as an actor, writer, director and producer to the emcee role, while Hilton has increasingly positioned herself as an advocate for abuse survivors following the release of her documentary and memoir. The Kering Foundation, established in 2008, works with partner organisations across six countries on prevention and survivor support programmes, and its chief sustainability and institutional affairs officer, Marie-Claire Daveu, said the organisation had spent nearly two decades working to prevent violence and help break cycles of abuse before they pass to the next generation.
Where outlets differ
Source 1 gives fuller biographical detail on Domingo's award nominations and Met Gala role, and on Hilton's advocacy work stemming from her documentary and memoir; Source 2 omits this background.
Source 1 lists a longer roster of Kering houses contributing to the live auction (including Saint Laurent, McQueen, Brioni, Boucheron and Ginori 1735) and notes a new post-dinner online silent auction open to the public, which Source 2 does not mention.
Source 2 attributes the live auction to auctioneer Lydia Fenet and includes a quote from Kering's Marie-Claire Daveu about the foundation's nearly two-decade history; neither the auctioneer credit nor this quote appears in Source 1.
Source 1 states the foundation was founded in 2008 and operates across six countries, a detail absent from Source 2.
Coverage
- Variety — Colman Domingo to Emcee Kering’s Caring for Women Dinner
- The Hollywood Reporter — Paris Hilton and Colman Domingo Join Kering Foundation’s Caring for Women Gala