It took a team of four along with twenty mask and hat makers, one floral design company, 130 models, forty makeup artists and body painters, fifteen hairstylists, hundreds of thousands of dollars of clothes, and countless dressers—plus one trip to Manhattan to adopt Franklin (our pink masked friend), to create not one but two fashion shows for The Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS Dallas Chapter's 2014 main event, House of DIFFA. 

To put this in context, to prepare for this epic event, historically, a team of many divides and conquers over eleven months to produce one inclusive show. This current team? We had nine weeks to prep for one fun night on the House of DIFFA runway! Oh, and we did two shows. 

Why take on such an outrageous and monumental request? 

Twelve years earlier, Jan Strimple, a former producer of DIFFA and whom Kathryn interned with in 2001, introduced her to Rhonda Sargent Chambers. As chair and fashion show producer of DIFFA 2003, Rhonda needed an assistant, and for the next 11 months, glued to each other's side, they pulled off the insane. Naturally, stepping into the really, really, really high heels of the two women who launched her career, after a few calls and a quick flight from New York, Kathryn was ready to do the same.

Not only the show producer but stylist and creative director, too, Kathryn pulled merchandise from the city's best boutiques—Stanley Korshak, including their trunk show with Naeem Khan, Traffic LA, TenOverSix, Gregory's, Tootsies, VOD... and for the finale, the Comme des Garçons butterfly, their SS14 show opener, plucked from the windows of 4510... over the beats of The Kills, Alex Gopher, Sky Ferreira, Neon Trees, CHVRCHES, and more, models wearing handmade masks, oversized jewelry, sprinkled with rhinestones and balancing on six-inch heels, where the famous denim jackets certainly had a moment, here, fashion was center stage.