The 44th Annual Spring Brass Ring Luncheon & Fashion Show features designer Lourdes Chavez and benefits The Guild of the Children’s Diabetes Foundation at the Hilton Denver City Center. The silent auction starts Friday, April 1st.

Lourdes Chavez returns for the second year in a row as the featured fashion designer for the 44th Annual Spring Brass Ring Luncheon & Fashion Show benefiting The Guild of the Children’s Diabetes Foundation. Lourdes is a multi-talented designer born in Mexico and raised in Los Angeles. Her exquisite designs have been worn by stars and celebrities at inaugural balls, red carpets, high profile business venues, and weddings. Lourdes designed for TV, worked with the famous fashion house Travilla, and launched her own line of semi-custom garments in 2000.

The fundraising event honoring type 1 heroes takes place at the Hilton Denver City Center on Tuesday, April 12th at 10 a.m. Bidding for the online silent auction starts Friday, April 1st on signature Spring Brass Ring baskets, a wine pull, Dine N’ Dash restaurant gift cards, and a special Jewels for Hope and Bags for Hope sale.

Lourdes won the Nolan Miller competition to design for the TV show Dallas, and in the last scene of the last original television episode, Linda Evans is wearing Lourdes’ yellow and black dress design. In 2009 Lourdes won Fashion Group International’s Crystal Award in Palm Desert for fashion design. Today, Lourdes has her own line of semi-custom garments produced in L.A. She designs some of her own fabrics, and uses unique and luxury fabrics from around Europe.

This year’s Spring Brass Ring celebrity emcee is CBS4 anchor, Dominic Garcia. The chairperson is Gina Abou-Jaoude.