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"    Photo: Getty Images   The Entertainment Industry Foundation Women&amp;#039;s Cancer Research Fund gathered the Hollywood and fashion crowds together last night for the 16th annual &amp;quot;An Unforgettable Evening&amp;quot; event. The reception and party, presented by Saks Fifth Avenue, took place in the ballroom of the glamorous Beverly Wilshire Hotel and featured a performance by Bruno Mars. Musician Kylie Minogue, who recently battled breast cancer, was honored with the 2013 Courage Award while designer Carolina Herrera accepted The Nat King Cole Award for her charitable work and contributions to the EIF Women&amp;#039;s Cancer Research Fund. Herrera, who partnered with Saks Fifth Avenue last year on a Key to the Cure campaign, told ELLE.com that she feels a personal connection with the fight against breast cancer.   &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a cause that I have been helping for a long time now,&amp;quot; Herrera said. &amp;quot;And it&amp;#039;s very close to my heart. I have many people that I know\u2014friends, family\u2014who have had problems with cancer and nowadays the most important thing is to give women awareness that they have to go and check. Because they can be saved. It&amp;#039;s a big thing.&amp;quot; In honor of Herrera many of the evening&amp;#039;s attendees, including Minogue, emcee Chelsea Handler, and party-goer Julianne Hough, wore Carolina Herrera gowns. &amp;quot;I met Carolina many, many years ago at a party,&amp;quot; Rita Wilson, the event&amp;#039;s honorary chair, told us after showing off her pale pink Herrera dress. &amp;quot;She was so elegant and so classy.&amp;quot; Wilson, who has attended every year of this event with her husband Tom Hanks (the actor had to skip this year due to his current appearance on Broadway), is deeply committed to pursuing cancer research. &amp;quot;What keeps me coming back is that we have to keep awareness out there and we have to keep raising money,&amp;quot; Wilson said. &amp;quot;In my lifetime I want to find a cure for breast cancer. And I want to find a blood test [so] you can go to the doctor along with any other test that you could take, draw some blood, and find out if you are at risk. I think that&amp;#039;s what so important. Men have it for prostate cancer, and we&amp;#039;re trying to find the same thing for women and breast cancer. It&amp;#039;s really awareness.&amp;quot; Tommy Hilfiger and his wife Dee, on the other hand, made their first appearance at this year&amp;#039;s event. Hilfiger, who noted that he likes everything about Los Angeles &amp;quot;except for the traffic,&amp;quot; said, &amp;quot;This is the first time we&amp;#039;ve been to this event. But it looks like an amazing event. It&amp;#039;s packed! This is fantastic. Bruno Mars is a great musician. And [the event] is honoring a friend of ours, Carolina Herrera. I think that it&amp;#039;s the place to be.&amp;quot; Amber Valletta, clad in a black-and-white Roland Mouret dress, also professed her love for Mars&amp;#039;s music, singing the Grammy-winner&amp;#039;s hit single &amp;quot;Beautiful Girls&amp;quot; as she made her way down the red carpet. &amp;quot;First and foremost my family has been stricken by female cancers, and we lost my aunt last year,&amp;quot; Valletta said of her involvement with the cause. &amp;quot;She was really young. She was just shy of her 61st birthday. And obviously for the rest of the women\u2014my nieces, my aunts, my friends, strangers that I&amp;#039;m akin to\u2014it&amp;#039;s important we have more research.&amp;quot; Actress Angie Harmon, who appears on TNT&amp;#039;s Rizzoli &amp;amp;amp; Isles, also wore a Herrera gown and mentioned that she has a long-standing relationship with the designer. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve known her since I was 18 or 19,&amp;quot; Harmon said. &amp;quot;So it&amp;#039;s always wonderful to see her.&amp;quot; The event was perhaps the most personal for Harmon, particularly this week. &amp;quot;We were shooting today and we actually lost a makeup artist to cancer this morning,&amp;quot; Harmon said. &amp;quot;So being here tonight is going to pick up spirits. Just being in my makeup trailer and seeing all the hurt. I just hope there&amp;#039;s not anybody here tonight who has been affected by cancer. I just know we&amp;#039;re so close to finding a cure. I just know we&amp;#039;re close.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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