Rain was expected but was kept at bay for a glorious day this 2nd annual Beverly Drive Magazine (formerly Grandluxe magazine) Polo Cup and Concorso at Prestonwood Polo Club that featured a car show, paraglider and polo matches on Saturday, May 24.

When Yvonne Crum sets her mind to something, great things happen. Such was the case with the first-ever Fashion Stars for a Cause at Dallas Country Club.

Crum, as founder and event chair, rounded up an impressive crew to help, including advisory chairs Lisa Petty and Carolyn Tillery and honorary chairs Melody and Rick Rogers. Together they made it a special night benefiting theSuicide and Crisis Center of North Texas, an organization near and dear to Crum’s heart.

If every fundraising event has a driving force behind it, there’s no doubt the person behind the inaugural Fashion Stars for a Cause gala at the Dallas Country Club was Yvonne Crum. Crum, who served as chair for the Friday, March 21 event benefiting the Suicide and Crisis Center of North Texas, was fussing like a nervous stage mother as guests thronged the club for the pre-dinner reception.

Model Behaviors interviewed artist/attorney Ryan Cunningham at the Oklahoma Contemporary in September 2013. During the interview we asked him why the Oklahoma Contemporary was so meaningful to him, and he said: “What’s most important to me about this spot is that this is where I really learned how to paint. I hadn’t painted a painting before. I had worked in charcoal, graphite, pastels and colored pencils before, but I had never really learned to paint. I really learned to paint with Bert. The work that I did at the Oklahoma Contemporary with Bert is what gave me the ability to be a painter. In a big way it all started in this space.” The Model Behaviors video of the interview was picked up by the Oklahoma Contemporary newsletter which is celebrating 25 years of bringing art and art education to the Oklahoma City community.

Regular readers of this site have been following my journey as a “Star” in this year’s inaugural Fashion Stars For A Cause (FSFC) Gala. Through the Suicide and Crisis Center’s Fresh Faces of Fashion program, Yvonne Crum paired the unlikely topics of suicide and fashion together eight years ago and created an annual event in partnership with Modern Luxury, Stanley Korshak and Park Place Motorcars that has raised more than $1 million in its first five years. Earlier this year, Modern Luxury and Crum chose to part ways and took her vision, freshened it up, and partnered with Beverly Drive Magazine to launch Fashion Stars for a Cause.