05/11/09 8th annual Sweet Charity event at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel where award-winning chefs demonstrated their mastery of cocoa and couture with wearable creations at the Des Alpes Chocolate Fashion Show featuring 15 models dressed in chocolate and edible accessories.

Proceeds from Sweet Charity will go to help the Books From The Heart program to provide books to children living in poverty who have few or no books of their own.

My friend Kate was wearing a giant 15 pound cake on her head for the second year in a row and looked a tad uncomfortable backstage but no one seeing her on the runway was any wiser. She’s pictured below with my friend Staci.