Heart Truth Show Features Red Dresses by Canada’s Top Designers

The Heart Truth Show, featuring celebrities wearing red gowns made by Canadian designers was held at the Carlu on Thursday evening. The purpose of the Heart Truth Campaign is to raise awareness about preventing heart disease in women. The campaign is part of the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

Finale, featuring all of the models on the runway!

Celebrities participating as models this year included Megan Follows (wearing David Dixon), Deb McGrath (Karamea), Andrea Martin, Enuka Okuma from Rookie Blue, ballet dancer, Chan Hon Goh (in Ross Mayer). All of the models wore the traditional red dress. This year also marked a slight change. For the first time, men paritcipated in the show as models. The wonderful guys who modelled were Colin Mochrie, Jim McKenney and Rick Campenelli, all wearing suits from V Hazelton. Unlike the other two guys, Rick was wearing red pants! It was quite the sight to see.

About Cynthia Cheng Mintz

Cynthia Cheng Mintz is the founder and webitor-in-chief of this site and the petite-focused site, Shorty Stories. She has also written for other publications including the Toronto Star and has blogged for The Huffington Post. Her first novel, Aspirations, was published in 2007. Outside of writing, Cynthia researches and advises philanthropic ideas for family funds and foundations and also volunteers.