Madonna & Gucci fundraiser

Madonna will host a fundraiser – including a dinner, musical performance and party – on Feb. 6 to open Gucci's new store on New York's Fifth Avenue.

"I am grateful that Gucci is joining forces with me to bring attention to a country with millions of children in desperate need of our help," Madonna said in a statement. "Raising Malawi has already done tremendous work in helping these children. But we have much more to do and this event will surely bring us closer to our goal."

The extravaganza is expected to raise at least $2 million to benefit UNICEF and the charity Madonna co-founded in 2006, Raising Malawi, which helps the country’s one million orphans, many of whose parents died of AIDS.