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Internationally acclaimed Manuel designs a "Coat of sixty-five Roses" The list of celebrities Manuel has covered with rhinestones and embroidered roses is stellar. Country singers, George Jones, Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton are longtime clients. Dwight Yoakam, Marty Stuart, Allan Jackson and Travis Trent all have dozens of his designs. Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney and Joe Nichols are the newest familiar faces in Manuel’s shop. But Manuel’s reach extends beyond Country music. He put the tongue on the Rolling Stones and the skulls and roses on the Grateful Dead. He put Elvis in a jumpsuit. He has dressed Bob Dylan and John Lennon as well as movie stars Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Burt Reynolds, John Travolta and Billy Bob Thornton. The impressive list continues – Ronald Regan, Salvador Dali, Linda Ronstadt, Aerosmith and the Bee Gees. Now he designs a “Coat of Sixty-Five Roses” to help find a cure for Cystic Fibrosis. His inspiration—The 65 Roses Story and a 2 year old little boy named Christopher Allen Tucker also-known-as CAT.
This coat along with some of the hottest performers today will be featured on a national advertising campaign for Cystic Fibrosis awareness and to raise much needed funds towards a cure. This one of a kind collector’s coat will be auctioned off with proceeds benefiting the CAT Foundation. The 65 Roses Story
For 34 years, sixty-five roses has been used by children of all ages to describe their disease. But making it easier to say, does not make CF any easier to live with. The fact is Cystic Fibrosis is the number one genetic killer of children and young adults in America today. The "65 Roses" story has captured the hearts and imaginations of all who have heard it. The rose, appropriately the ancient symbol of
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65 Roses is what some
children with CF call their disease because the words are much easier for them
to pronounce. Mary G. Weiss became a volunteer for the Cystic Fibrosis
Foundation in 1965 after learning that her three little boys had CF. Her duty
was to call every civic club, social and service organization seeking financial
support for CF research. Mary's 4-year old son, Richard, listened closely to his
mother as she made each call. After several calls, Richard came into the room
and told his Mom, "I know what you are working for." Mary was dumbstruck because
Richard did not know what she was doing, nor did he know that he had cystic
fibrosis. With some trepidation, Mary posed the question, "What am I working
for, Richard?" "You are working for 65 Roses," he answered so sweetly. Mary was
speechless. She went over to him and tenderly pressed his body to hers. He could
not see the tears running down Mary's cheeks as she stammered, "Yes Richard, I'm
working for 65 Roses."