Fashion Week 2012: Modeling for a Cause

Celebrities and models gathered for the 2012 Heart Truth's Red Dress Collection Fashion Show at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on Feb. 8. Red dresses were modeled to raise awareness for heart disease among women.Singer Gloria Estefan posed backstage before taking the runway. Suggested Reading You Know Of The Tuskegee Airmen, But You…

Celebrities and models gathered for the 2012 Heart Truth's Red Dress Collection Fashion Show at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on Feb. 8. Red dresses were modeled to raise awareness for heart disease among women.

Singer Gloria Estefan posed backstage before taking the runway.

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A bevy of celebrites, including La La Anthony, Chaka Khan, Christie Brinkley and Rebecca Romijn, came out to support the cause.

Former MTV VJ and VH1 reality star La La Anthony strikes a pose backstage during the fashion show.

Actress Minka Kelly poses before hitting the catwalk. She is flanked by singers Chaka Chan and Gloria Estefan.

Singer Chaka Khan strikes a pose in a breezy Chris March dress.Β 

La La's Full Court Life star La La Anthony walks down the runway in a tangerine red Rachel Roy creation.

Actress Aisha Tyler walks playfully down the catwalk in a Badgley Mischka ensemble.

Actress Phylicia Rashad smiles for the camera during the Heart Truth's Red Dress Collection Fashion Show, now in its 10th year.

Actresses Rebecca Romijn and Aisha Tyler chat backstage during the show.

Stars donned red to raise awarness for heart disease, the number one killer of American women, according to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

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