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Who is behind the actual design? What is the actual purpose behind this? it's obviously some kind of awareness campaign? Is this the show Michelle Obama was rumoured to attend?
Heart disease. Number one killer of women in the United States. Some of the dresses will be auctioned off for charity and research. Lots of designers behind the dresses: Participating Designers The fashion show will feature more than 20 celebrity women paired with the most prestigious fashion houses to debut The Heart Truth's Red Dress Collection 2009. Participating designers include: Badgley Mischka Betsey Johnson Calvin Klein Carmen Marc Valvo Carolina Herrera Catherine Malandrino Daniel Swarovski David Meister Diane von Furstenberg Donna Karan Kevan Hall Marc Jacobs Marchesa Max Azria Michael Kors Monique Lhuillier Narciso Rodriguez Nicole Miller Oscar de la Renta Ralph Lauren Tracy Reese Vera Wang Verrier Zac Posen You can read more about it here: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov//educational/hearttruth/ Yeah, really "hideous" Crying Diamonds.
as much as I admire the effort to promote awareness of heart disease, but from a fashion perspective this is so fail.
No matter what the fashion quotient is, it still looks good when individuals/institutions give back, and there you have it.