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Designer Don'ts Fashion Week
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AVOID: Seating Snafus
Seating assignments have long been a point of pride and contention during Fashion Week. But nothing compares to Zac Posen's Spring 2013 show where Jalouse editor Jennifer Eymere slapped PR exec Lynn Tesoro over a seating squabble. Tesoro went on to sue Eymere and her family for $1 million; the suit was settled privately in 2013.
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AVOID: Kings County
Alexander Wang's Fall 2014 collection was a smash hit, but his show venue at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was not. After the show, it took editors upward of two hours to cab it back into the city. Jane Keltner de Valle, the fashion news director at Glamour, tweeted: "The Alexander Wang show is like Hotel California. You can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave. #nyfw."
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AVOID: Late Show Times
When Marc Jacobs started his September 2007 show two hours late, insiders went ballistic. Suzy Menkes told WWD, “I would like to murder him with my bare hands and never see another Marc Jacobs show in my life.” The two have since buried the hatchet, and now Jacobs keeps a strict schedule.
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AVOID: Alarming the Front Row
In 1991, Michael Kors staged a fashion show inside an empty loft space downtown. Halfway through the collection, the booming soundtrack caused pieces of ceiling plaster to fall on the crowd, later prompting Fern Mallis to organize a proper New York Fashion Week at Bryant Park. Simon Doonan wrote about the affair in his autobiographical book The Asylum: "I vividly remember the dust clearing, and seeing Anna Wintour picking lumps of plaster out of Suzy Menkes's hair.”
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AVOID: Unstable Pop Stars on the Fritz
Whatever you do, don't hire Lindsay Lohan as an artistic adviser. Former Emanuel Ungaro designer Estrella Archs is still recovering from the disastrous Spring 2010 partnership, which involved heart-shaped nipple pasties.
