Elizabeth Hurley turns Paris Pink

  • 12 years ago
Paris's Opera Garnier turns pink.

The light show was part of a breast cancer awareness event organized by the French association 'Breast cancer, talk about it!'

British actress Elizabeth Hurley was the guest of honor and was charged with pressing the pink button.

SOUNDBITE: Elizabeth Hurley, spokes model, saying (English):

"It's a phenomenal cause, we've given out more than 122 million pink ribbons in our quest to try to raise awareness amongst women for breast cancer, to tell them what they can do if they find something and how they can best defeat breast cancer."

On display were photos from Estee Lauder's "Pink Positive" competition.

The theme for this year's contest was to capture images hope and optimism in the face of breast cancer.

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