Page A14 • October 25, 2012 • Inland Empire Community Newspapers
Journalist Giuliana Rancic hosts fashion show
By Naomi Bonman
Television personality andentertainment journalistGiuliana Rancic hosted the
second annual ‘CelebratingWomen Runway Event’ held onWednesday, October 17 at the On-tario Mills Fashion District. Theevent was sponsored by Mercedes-Benz of Ontario. “Ontario Mills is the largest out-
let in California that has the latestfashion and for (fabulous prices),”Masa Liles, areas director of mar-keting for Ontario Mills, said. “Wewanted to put on the fashion showto make the public aware of thegreat fashion and deals that themall has to offer. We started look-ing for a great style icon and arethrilled to have Giuliana return asour special guest.”Giuliana Rancic is co-anchor of
“E! News” alongside RyanSeacrest, co-star of E!’s hugelypopular “Fashion Police” and starand executive producer of her re-ality show on Style Network,“Giuliana and Bill”. She has alsoserved as co-host of several red
carpet events at award shows inthe entertainment industry and washost of the Miss USA 2011 and2012 beauty pageants. Last year on October 17, 2011,
Rancic announced she had beendiagnosed with breast cancer andsince then she has undergone treat-ment for it. She is currently a pub-lic advocate for the cause, as wellas a long-time supporter of severalother charities including OperationSmile, Dress for Success, MercyHome for Boys and Girls inChicago and the Children’s Mira-cle Network. The event took place under the
stars with top professional modelsstrutting the catwalk wearing col-lections from some the top designsfound in the Ontario Mills mall.Designer brands that were featuredincluded Michael Kors, TonyBurch, Ralph Lauren, Calvin Kein,Hugo Boss, Elie Tahari and a se-lection of others. In addition to the top designer
clothing that was featured in theshow, another purpose behind‘Celebrating Women’ was to raisefunds and awareness about breast
cancer. Proceeds from the showwent towards the Breast CancerReasearch Foundation. Prior to the event there was a
press conference and VIP partythat was held. The VIP party fea-tured select cars from Mercedes-Benz of Ontario. During the party
Ray Burke announced that theywill give away a Mercedes-Benz atthe third annual “CelebratingWomen Runway Event”. “An event like this should be
sponsored by a first class car deal-ership,” Trevor Harlow, Sales andLeasing Consultant, said.
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Models do their final walk around the runway at the Celebrating Women Runway Event heldWednesday evening, October 17, at Ontario Mills Fashion District. Proceeds from the show weredonated to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
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One of the models of theevening. Each model in theshow were professionals fromLos Angeles and have ap-peared in popular shows, suchas Project Runway, America’sNext Top Model and FashionStar.
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Giuliana Rancic was the host of Celebrating Women RunwayEvent held at Ontario Mills Fashion District.
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