Every year, my work’s foundation mounts Brilliant!, the most spectacular evening of fashion and dance to support much-needed mental health and addiction programs at St. Paul’s Hospital. The gala event at Commodore Ballroom sells out weeks in advance, with many of the attendees going all out and dressing up flamboyantly.
This would be my first year live-tweeting it and I found that the Brilliant! event did indeed live up to its name. The annual event truly is a labour of love, with over 300 of Vancouver’s most fashion-forward designers, hairstylists, make-up artists and performers all volunteering their time and talent.
This year’s theme was fairytales: from darkness into light, featuring thoroughly modern interpretations of classic tales, such as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the Gingerbread Man, Little Mermaid, the Swan Princes, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Beauty and the Beast, Hansel and Gretel and Robin Hood.
Some photos:
The night was a resounding success. The live auction items and donations raised over $1.45M, shattering last year’s record of $300,000. Now in its third year, Brilliant! has raised over $2M over the past three years.
To see a recap of my tweets, attendees’ tweets, photos and videos, go to my Twitter moments.
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