Designer sale raises funds for ovarian cancer research

Event in New York featured items by more than 100 designers

Last updated: September 15, 2018 | 20:00

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Celebrities offered their star power and top designers offered their clothes to a sale benefiting ovarian cancer research.

Dubbed by organisers as the Rolls-Royce of garage sales, Saturday’s event — in a field in Water Mill, New York — featured items by more than 100 designers.

Donna Karan, Ralph Lauren and Diane von Furstenberg, among others, donated clothes, shoes and accessories to benefit the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund.

Karan helped start the event 18 years ago with her friend Liz Tilberis, the editor of Harper’s Bazaar, who died of ovarian cancer.

Last year, they took in $3.5 million (Dh12.8 million).

Rebecca Minkoff attends the 18th Annual Super Saturday fundraiser to benefit the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund at Nova's Ark Project in Water Mill on Saturday, July 25, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Scott Roth/Invision/AP)

Kristen Taekman attends the 18th Annual Super Saturday fundraiser to benefit the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund at Nova's Ark Project in Water Mill on Saturday, July 25, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Scott Roth/Invision/AP)

June Ambrose attends the 18th Annual Super Saturday fundraiser to benefit the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund at Nova's Ark Project in Water Mill on Saturday, July 25, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Scott Roth/Invision/AP)

Kelly Klein attends the 18th Annual Super Saturday fundraiser to benefit the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund at Nova's Ark Project in Water Mill on Saturday, July 25, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Scott Roth/Invision/AP)

Kelly Ripa attends the 18th Annual Super Saturday fundraiser to benefit the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund at Nova's Ark Project in Water Mill on Saturday, July 25, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Scott Roth/Invision/AP)

Molly Sims, right, and son Brooks Stuber attend the 18th Annual Super Saturday fundraiser to benefit the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund at Nova's Ark Project in Water Mill on Saturday, July 25, 2015, in New York. (Photo by Scott Roth/Invision/AP)

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