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"    Photo: Getty Images   Last night, Cipriani Wall Street was awash in red and alive with music for the 2013 Delete Blood Cancer Gala. The event was hosted by Nate Berkus, featured two stirring performances by Jill Scott and Lady Antebellum, as well as an appearance by Katy Perry who presented Vera Wang with the Delete Blood Cancer Award for her philanthropy on the charity&amp;#039;s behalf. Delete Blood Cancer empowers people to to take action by by getting swabbed and donating bone marrow, and it has registered three million donors worldwide to date. Co-founder Katharina Harf was inspired to dedicate her life&amp;#039;s work to the cause after her own mother passed away from an acute form of blood cancer.   In honor of Harf&amp;#039;s mother (and withMother&amp;#039;s Day fast approaching!), we caught up with some of the evening&amp;#039;s most fashionable attendees to see how their mothers influenced them. Wang has had style encoded into her DNA, thanks to her mother, who worked as a translator for the United Nations and traveled around the world, bringing back the latest fashions. &amp;quot;My mother is the reason I&amp;#039;m in fashion,&amp;quot; Wang said. &amp;quot;She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me. [Laughs] I have her to praise and her to blame. Her style was extremely couture. She wore a lot of Dior. I can&amp;#039;t say I sat at some tablecloth sewing clothes. My mother kind of exposed me to the greatest and the best.&amp;quot; While the designer was excited about the night&amp;#039;s musical acts, she revealed another musical genre that&amp;#039;s been striking her fancy. &amp;quot;Oh my god, I&amp;#039;m into opera,&amp;quot; she confessed. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know why. It may lead me to my next collection. Right now, I&amp;#039;m feeling for it in a new way. It&amp;#039;s just turning me on.&amp;quot; Host Berkus made no secret of being a mama&amp;#039;s boy. When we asked the interior design virtuoso about his mother, he spoke of her support for his risks\u2014and shopping sprees. &amp;quot;I think most importantly, she taught me how to shop, which was really helpful,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;She also taught me to trust my instincts, which has been amazing.&amp;quot; Derek Lam, who designed a custom scarlet gown for Harf to wear for the occasion, also has a lot to thank his mother for. &amp;quot;Ultimately, she was the person who got me excited about fashion,&amp;quot; he explained. &amp;quot;She was the one who brought me to the stores. My mother was conscious of style, but she always loved to do it her way. She had and has great style.&amp;quot; Since we already know that Georgia May Jagger is inspired by her mother Jerry Hall, we asked the young scion about her rock &amp;#039;n&amp;#039; roll father&amp;#039;s sense of style. &amp;quot;My sister got most of his clothes because they&amp;#039;re closer in size,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;I kind of love all that flair. It&amp;#039;s probably not stuff he wears now but he&amp;#039;s definitely fan of bright colors and shiny things, which has definitely rubbed off on me.&amp;quot; [Laughs] Considering her musical pedigree, we couldn&amp;#039;t help but ask Jagger about the artists she&amp;#039;s most jazzed about at the moment. &amp;quot;Well, I&amp;#039;m never really into the music of right now,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ll get down with some Beyonc\u00E9, though. I&amp;#039;m really excited about Beyonc\u00E9&amp;#039;s tour actually. I would say she&amp;#039;s my artist for the moment. I&amp;#039;ve never seen her perform live before. I&amp;#039;m a huge fan. When I saw her movie, I cried.&amp;quot; Another tour she&amp;#039;ll be trying to catch: The Rolling Stones&amp;#039;s 50 &amp;amp;amp; Counting tour, which kicked off this past weekend. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m going to try to go to as many Stones&amp;#039; shows as humanly possible.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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