Sherri Shepherd hosted the American Heart Association’s Red Dress Collection Concert while Billy Porter walked in the annual Blue Jacket show.
New York Fashion Week may not officially begin until Friday, Feb. 9, but Black celebrities have already gotten a start on Fashion Month. Two fashion shows, in particular, kicked things off with a touch of health advocacy, respectively bringing awareness to heart disease and prostate cancer.
Celebrating the fact that February is also American Heart Month, on Jan. 31, Black female celebrities, including Star Jones, Yvonne Orji, and Samira Wiley, donned their best red for the American Heart Association’s Red Dress Collection Concert at New York City’s Lincoln Center. Hosted this year by Sherri Shepherd, the annual Red Dress event benefits the AHA while bringing awareness to heart disease. The next night, on Feb. 1, Billy Porter, chef Marcus Samuelsson, Don Lemon, and veteran stylist .
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