You know Project Runway, the Bravo fashion design show hosted by supermodel Heidi Klum. Here's a real runway project: getting more than 2,000 people -- each paying up to $1,000 -- in prime viewing spots to catch a mega-fashion show and eyeball enough celebs to make a red carpet regular giddy.

For the March 7 Destination Fashion shindig to benefit The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis, organizers plan to turn the Bal Harbour Shops' parking lot into a really long runway -- a sizable 246 feet -- so that everyone can get a glimpse of the celebs.

Seal sings. The Pointer Sisters perform ( Issa, RuthPointer's daughter, jumps in for the late sister, June), and fashion designer Michael Kors showcases his fall line. Other celeb guests include actor Tommy Lee Jones, a co-chair of the event; golf legend Jack Nicklaus and Miami Dolphins icon Nick Buoniconti. Barton G. handles catering.

The celebs' appearances ''drive turnout for this important event . . . [to] raise much-needed funds for our efforts to cure paralysis,'' says Marc Buoniconti, who helps spearhead the fundraiser.

To match this year's theme, ''Decades: '70s, '80s, '90s and Today,'' the mall will be transformed into specific periods in fashion and pop culture -- ''from Studio 54 to Sex in the City,'' says organizer Stephanie Sayfie Aagaard.

Now, what you really want to know is will Klum -- who just so happens to be Seal's wife -- turn out for the event?

''She's been invited -- and no one has declined, yet,'' is all Buoniconti can say about that.

• Destination Fashion tickets are $300, $500 and $1,000. Call 305-243-4656 or e-mail saagaard@miami.edu.

-- HOWARD COHEN

Michael C. Hall, who plays the titular murderous blood spatter expert on Showtime's set-in-Miami Dexter, has gotten hitched -- to his on-screen sister. Newsday reports that Hall, 37, married actress Jennifer Carpenter, 29, in a secret New Year's Eve ceremony in California. The couple made its public debut at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night after quietly dating for a year and a half.

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