We think it’s inspiring when an industry bands together to support a worthy cause. So we were delighted to hear about the upcoming Fashion Forward event, featuring a Saks Fifth Avenue runway show of holiday and resort looks and benefiting the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, the nation’s oldest HIV/AIDS organization dedicated to prevention, treatment and care. The event — to be held Nov. 16 from 7–10 p.m. at New York City’s Metropolitan Pavilion — will be hosted by one of our favorite fashion experts, Tim Gunn of Lifetime’s Project Runway. Click here for a preview:

The runway show will feature men’s and women’s fashions from Burberry, Diesel, Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, Michael Kors, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, Rag & Bone, Vince and more. The evening also includes a cocktail hour and a silent auction, featuring a Paris vacation package (complete with two tickets to a Karl Lagerfeld show), a Copenhagen vacation package and a new Vespa from Brooklyn Vespa — as well as fashion luxury items, of course, from Calvin Klein, Converse, Diesel, DVF, Kate Spade, Marc Jacobs, Stuart Weitzman, Thakoon, Thomas Pink, Tom Ford and Yigal Azrouël. Ticket prices vary; general admission is $100 and reserved seating is $250. A VIP seat for $500 also includes two tickets to the VIP cocktail/fashion preview reception tonight at Saks Fifth Avenue on 611 Fifth Ave., from 6–8 p.m. A Silhouette Sponsor ($2,500) receives two front-row tickets or four reserved seats, as well as four tickets to the reception.

Since Fashion Forward began in 2007, it has raised more than $400,000 for the GMHC, which funds such programs and services as the David Geffen Center for HIV Prevention and Health Education, the Women’s Institute, the Lesbian AIDS Project, the Institute for Gay Men’s Health and the Terry K. Watanabe Volunteer Center, as well as mental health services, legal services, client advocacy and public policy. “We are still very much in the fight against HIV and AIDS,” says designer Michael Bastian. “I think it’s more important than ever that we all give as much as we can, so we can hopefully see an end to this disease in our lifetime. That dream is possible, but we’ve all got to fight hard for it.”

We think it’s important that so many in the fashion world are working together to fight HIV and AIDS. Do you have a favorite philanthropic fashion event or style purchase that goes to a charitable cause?

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