On Monday morning, when the Internet greeted us with photographs of Taylor Momsen prancing around a stage in platform shoes with an actual tip jar embedded in the soles, we cradled our Gossip Girl DVDs and wondered how we got here. Where did it all go so wrong? When did Cindy-Lou Who, or even the Jenny Humphrey of GG Season One, turn into a sullen...

The reason we look forward to the Met Ball above all other star-studded events (yes, including the Oscars) is simple: It’s the only night that celebrities feel brave enough to turn their sartorial efforts up to eleven, either because of the high-fashion guest list, the Gala’s often evocatively nutty themes, or both. But this year’...

So, we’re collecting our pocket change and heading to Vegas, because last night marked the third Project Runway finale in a row for which we picked the correct winner. Either we’re getting much better at this, or PR is getting way more predictable. In addition to reveling in the glory of being right, we’re pleased that neither mo...

When it comes to picking the Project Runway winner, we’re on a bit of a hot streak, but that could easily come to an end during tonight’s season-seven finale. Sure, we’ve got our guesses as to who will emerge victorious — Seth Aaron, Mila, or Emilio — but we’re way less invested in that than we are in whether Ti...

The mood at the Bryant Park tents Thursday night was different. Special. Tommy Hilfiger’s runway show was the last ever to happen at this location, and the emotion was palpable: When we first walked into the venue, the deejay was running a string of melancholy songs like “Secret Garden” by Springsteen and “Fire and RainR...

Brooke Shields seriously stressed out some photographers at Naeem Khan on Thursday night when it seemed as if she might sit down without posting. After a five-minute chorus of “Don’t sit down, Brooke! Please don’t sit down!” the tall and dreamy Shields, wearing a black sequined number, turned with a laugh and said, “D...

Isaac Mizrahi’s show Thursday morning in the Tents was, as usual, a real Bravo-fest: We spotted the always-chipper Andy Cohen enthusiastically hugging Fern Mallis before taking his front-row seat next to Isaac’s bestie, Veronica Webb. We hope they had a super-awkward discussion about how Veronica got unceremoniously fired from a short-...

Last time we were at William Rast, it was a total bloated celebrity fiasco. Aubrey O’Day was there, toting both her dog and her Playboy cover, and Paris Hilton spent the whole show texting people and reapplying her makeup. There were countless other celebs, both random (Gerard Butler) and connected (JC Chasez). It was a crazy, exhausting cru...

We’ve seen so much of Irina Lazareanu in the audience this season, it’s easy to forget she used to be a premier catwalker herself. At Anna Sui on Wednesday night, a reporter asked Irina — clad in a transparent black shirt and very wide-leg black slacks — if she misses being on the runway instead of sitting beside it. “...

If you’ve been wondering whether the early nineties are coming back or not, Jeremy Scott has the answer: yes. Listen, Michael Stipe was sitting front row and the soundtrack to the show included C+C Music Factory (to which literally everyone in the venue started seat-dancing, as if pre-planned). If that doesn’t take you back to the day...

There’s a point in every Fashion Week where the photographers get punchy — in mood, if not in actual fists — and we appear to have reached it. When the lights went down at Phillip Lim’s show on Wednesday afternoon, one of the guys in the pit yelled, “Get your hands out of there,” and the entire assemblage starte...

We, and many fashion editors, know from painful experience that Oscar de la Renta’s shows thrive on punctuality. So it was no surprise to find a line outside the venue already, even though we arrived for Wednesday’s show about fifteen minutes before its scheduled start time — which for a lot of shows means, “Time to start th...

Michael Kors started on Wednesday morning merely twenty minutes late, which by Fashion Week standards is basically like beginning your show a week early. Most of the bold-faced names made it into their seats in time, but not Kate Lanphear and Rachel Zoe, both of whom found themselves trapped behind the security barrier as the show started. Kate, w...

“This is a DISASTER,” the man next to us in line to get into Diesel Tuesday evening announced, and for once, this wasn’t just over-the-top yelping from a drama-queen fashionista. Trying to get into Diesel was a disaster. At some point, someone had decided that it would be a good idea to ask people — ticketed or not, seat as...

Just before Tuesday night’s Narciso Rodriguez show began, we experienced an amusing role reversal. Often, the photographers snap pictures first and ask the reporters questions later — things like, “Who is that, again?” and, “Why do we care about her?” and, “Does she do anything?” (Often those are har...

Unlike most shows, which sit their famous guests all in a line, the folks at Pamella Roland on Tuesday dotted them around the front rows, almost as if to create separate viewing areas, or a celebrity buffet: Start over here with a taste of Alfre Woodard, then wander around and consider a helping of Nigel and Crissy Barker before spying a Brooke Sh...

AnnaLynne McCord might need a new PR rep. At the Max Azria show Tuesday afternoon, three separate people asked us who she was, and two of them seemed skeptical when we informed them that she was on 90210. We swear it’s true! We’d never lie about the CW. At least AnnaLynne looked cute, in a brown turtleneck and bouffant ponytail. The p...

Badgley Mischka’s cup runneth over with reality-television stars Tuesday morning. We spotted nearly the entire cast of The City — and, we believe, one of their film crews. Joe Zee, in addition to his duties as Elle’s creative director, was drafted to act as the human shield between Erin Kaplan — whose hair looked particular...

Things started out so calmly at Chris Benz’s presentation Monday afternoon: Children and dogs wandered the white-walled art gallery, taking in the brightly colored coats and dyed fur trapper hats in peace. All was well. Until it wasn’t. First, we spotted Susan Sarandon, looking gorgeous as usual, but without her daughter and Benz’...

As always, the Hervé Léger show was packed with pretty young things wearing skin-tight bandage dresses. Those things are pretty unforgiving, so we were impressed to see Jessica Szohr sharing a box of chocolates with a newly brunette Melissa George — in the front row, and therefore in view of the whole world. Three cheers for public...

At about 99.9 percent of Fashion Week’s shows, the media tumult surrounding the celebrities is such a free-for-all that people get crabby with each other, maybe a few elbows are thrown, and it all ends with a bunch of tall men in suits announcing that everyone needs to get off the runway because various famous people can’t breathe. But...

For the past two seasons, Betsey Johnson — renowned for her party-atmosphere shows — has done presentations, so we were thrilled to learn the buoyant designer would be back on the runway this time. On Sunday night, she did not disappoint: Only Betsey would tee up an evening featuring cape-holding man-slaves, models who threw money into...