Chaka Khan, Patti Stanger, Gloria Estefan.

The only show at Fashion Week that feels like a cruise is the Heart Truth Red Dress show. That is, unless Alexander Wang is planning something terribly ironic for his show on Saturday, like making his models walk the runway next to a full buffet. but last night at Heart Truth, which boasts celebrity models wearing red dresses to raise awareness about heart disease in women, the entertainment is campy, the people on the runway bear flesh and wrinkles, and the audience happily dresses in theme (red) and dances in their seats. No one goes to this show to see if they’re the only one with the new Celine bag and if they’ve been dieting longer than everyone else. No, this one is fun.

The runway in Hammerstein Ballroom has a screen at the end of it, which tells us who all the celebrimodels are and who designed their red dresses. but before the show starts, we get a little animated CGI vignette of the Statue of Liberty set to a seat-shaking remix of every feel-good song any woman ever liked (Alicia Keys, Adele, Rihanna, Adele again). Once Lady Liberty’s robes turns red, Fantasia-style, and the Glee-sounding song ends, the show begins!

And the committee who put this thing together deserves credit for accruing a stellar cast, that included only two reality stars! La La Anthony, who the program tells me was on Vh1′s La La’s full Court Life, and Patti Stanger, who, to be fair, had a legitimate matchmaking business before she became one of Bravo’s premiere attractions. (As one girl in the audience exclaimed, “Maybe Patti can find me a Valentine’s date!”) So there’s practicality in Patti’s celebrity, unlike many a Kardashian.

When it was all over, the show left you with this wonderful feeling that it was okay to go eat some calories, get drunk, and dance in an embarrassing fashion. And that’s saying a lot because most fashion shows don’t leave you with any feelings at all.