Fashion Week Wrap Up



(image of Vanessa Williams' stylist removing shoe from runway via NYPost)

Gag it with a fork, it's done. From Danica Lo of the NYPost:

"Memo to Fashion Week employees: it pays to know who the big boss is. Model Dewi Dregen strutted in one of the opening looks at the Carmen Marc Valvo show yesterday afternoon, but lost her shoe halfway down the catwalk. When she didn't pick it up, Fern Mallis, senior vice president of IMG Fashion, a k a Queen of all Fashion Week, nudged the security guard next to her several times trying to get him to remove the offending footwear from the runway. To the horror of everyone around, he just glared at her and retorted, 'That's not my job.' Ultimately, Vanessa Williams' stylist ran up and grabbed the shoe . 'It was the security guard's first day on the job,' snickered one insider. 'And his last.'"

Also, Energy drink pimp Russell Simmons, behaving as "ghetto" as his straightlaced middle class upbringing in Hollis, Queens will allow, "Sitting front row at the Child Magazine fashion show were Kimora Lee Simmons and Russell Simmons. When Russell high-fived one of the munchkin models, Kimora playfully slapped his arm, saying, 'Don't touch the models, it's unprofessional!'"

From Style:

"'I'm a total gate-crasher tonight, but I'm British and we somehow get away with it,' said Euan Rellie with a wink at the start of the Calvin Klein dinner at the Waverly Inn on Thursday night. The Englishman, who in fact arrived as Kelly Killoren-Bensimon's 'date' (having received special dispensation from pregnant wife Lucy Sykes Rellie), was one of a small group of editors and socials who sat down to celebrate Francisco Costa's latest collection. Though it marked the first time that a private affair was held at the see-and-be-seen eatery, most of the evening's attendees were regulars.

"'I come here all the time,' commented Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer, while her tablemate Renée Rockefeller, an unlikely first-timer, recalled reading how her 'crush' Owen Wilson had been banished to the back of the restaurant, known as 'Siberia.' Sitting at Ron Perelman's usual table, Anouck Lepère and Jefferson Hack chatted with Elizabeth Saltzman Walker, while one booth over (Graydon Carter's spot), Costa bonded with Camilla Al Fayed, Astrid Muñoz, and his number one catwalker, Natalia Vodianova. 'I feel good,' said the designer. 'It’s over.'"