Article posted: 12/29/2012 5:00 AM

Fashion designers sew up special causes

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Ryan Murphy, left, Gwyneth Paltrow and Michael Kors attend the God's Love We Deliver 2012 Golden Heart Awards in New York. For the last 20 years, Kors has been involved with God's Love We Deliver, an organization that delivers more than 1 million meals per year to housebound people suffering from illness.

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Fashion designers sometimes get to wear their hearts on their sleeves, making their personal connection to charitable causes part of their public lives. Sometimes the choices of charities seem obvious, such as the recent effort by the Council of Fashion Designers of America and Vogue magazine to raise $1.7 million in relief aid for those affected by Superstorm Sandy, which happened in their backyard. Others are driven by more intimate reasons.