Destination Fashion Kickoff

To be Held at the Bal Harbour Shops

The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis announced its much anticipated lineup for Destination Fashion 2009. Designer extraordinaire Michael Kors will show his exclusive fall fashions at the high-profile event and fashion extravaganza and Grammy Award-winning trio, The Pointer Sisters, will perform. The event will take place at the Bal Harbour Shops with proceeds benefiting The Buoniconti Fund, the fundraising arm of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

Honorary co-chairs for the event are Academy Award winner Tommy Lee Jones and his wife Dawn Jones. NFL Hall of Famer Nick Buoniconti, Barth Green, M.D., Marc Buoniconti, Gretchen Jordan, Suzie Sayfie and Stephanie Sayfie Aagaard are event chairs.

Also announced were the 2009 Women of Substance and Style Honorees, who are: Toby Ansin, Madeleine Arison, Adrienne Arsht, Patty Asseff, Dorothy Barrie, Nancy Batchelor, Bobbi Berkman, Julia Bianchi, Debra Braman Wechsler, Nora Bulnes, Cindy Carr, Trudy Cejas, Beatrice Clancy, Anna May Conese, Victoria Cummock, Diane de Olazarra, Raysa Fanjul, Alice Fisher Edelman, Paula Friedland, Gladys Gelb, Susie Goldsmith, Andria Holtz, Elsie Howard, Carol Iacovelli, Roni Jacobson, Susan Jacobson, Gretchen Jordan, Kandy Kramer, Edie Laquer, Anne McDougal, Christina Getty Maercks, Lisa Pliner, Jennifer Postrel, Christy Powell, Victoria Ranger, Loren Ridinger, Chris Riley, Mary Anne Shula, Claudine Smurfit, Jessica Goldman Srebnick, Laura Tauber and Marisa Toccin.

For more information about this exclusive event, please call Stephanie Sayfie Aagaard, Director of Major Gifts, Corporate Relations, Marketing & Events at 305-243-4656 or email saagaard@miami.edu