Every year we go to the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS DIFFA/DALLAS JACKET COLLECTION auction thinking surely everything that possibly could be done to a denim jacket has been done before – and probably several times – in the course of the fundraiser's 19-year history. And every year, we're happily surprised. More importantly, thousands of dollars are earned for Dallas-area AIDS service organizations. The 2008 gala, dubbed Cinéma ...

  Dallas' Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS is gearing up for its 19th annual Dallas Jacket Collection blowout on Feb. 23.  Desingers such as Badgley Mischka, Kenneth Cole, Geoffrey Henning, and Laura Wilson will be transforming Arizona jean jackets donated by J.C. Penney into wearable works of art to be auctioned off to benefit local and national AIDS services. This year's runway show promises to be even more over-the-top than ...