Victoria Beckham was forced to watch the Marc Jacobs show online like most other fashion lovers.

Designer Marc Jacobs had his Fall 2009 collection (which the press had a fashiongasm over) void of celebrity presence.

Victoria Beckham , there to support her pal, had another designer on her mind: Marc Jacobs , even though he hadn’t invited celebs to his fashion show the night before. “I really love Marc,” Beckham told us at the Grey Goose-sponsored bash. “He’s always been supportive of me. It was a shame I couldn’t be at his show. “You know, I think it’s not really about having celebrities at your show,” the little lady added. “Marc has support from the most incredible celebrities in the world. I thought he did a great show.” So she saw it? “I saw it online,” the former Posh Spice explained. “I’m in complete awe of him.

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The life of a male model is no where near as glamourous as female models, and definitely nothing like Zoolander.
The current issue of New York magazine contains a profile of the male model industry and what it’s like for them during fashion week.
The money is not what these guys are doing it for. For many shows the models were paid with “trade” instead of money. Things like free clothes and shoes or credits for the brands clothing, a sort of gift certificate.

Financially speaking, male modeling is not unlike being a straight-male porn star: The men have always made less than the women, and very few become big names. For most magazine work, models are paid less than $250. Twenty percent of that goes to the agency, which also bills models for their board and expenses. “Sometimes you get charged for things you never thought of,” says Petey, “like $30 a month to be on the website.” The only hope of making ends meet is to book an ad campaign or catalogue job. But even those are less lucrative than they once were. “Where you used to get $5K for a job, it’s now $2K,” says JD Ferguson, a former model who now works as a fashion photographer. “I remember my booker saying to me, ‘Hey, if you won’t do $2,000, there’s another guy right behind you that will.’?”

Rough life.
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Damn, people.
This cartoon was in the NY Post newspaper today as a cartoon created by the Post’s Sean Delonas.
The racial undertones are apparent to all but the thickest of people.

Al Sharpton has already issued a statement condemning the cartoon:

The cartoon in today’s New York Post is troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of African-Americans as being synonymous with monkeys. One has to question whether the cartoonist is making a less than casual reference to this when in the cartoon they have police saying after shooting a chimpanzee that “Now they will have to find someone else to write the stimulus bill.” Being that the stimulus bill has been the first legislative victory of President Barack Obama (the first African American president) and has become synonymous with him it is not a reach to wonder are they inferring that a monkey wrote the last bill?

link: Gawker

Marc Jacobs Fall 2009 collection is nothing short of a hit as the fashion press goes ga-ga over the industry darling.
Jacobs went for a colorful eighties vibe contrasting the bleak, dark economic times of the reality of 2009. (more…)

Diva’s united at the Diane von Furstenberg Fall 2009 show.
Singer Diana Ross made an appearance for her designer friend von Furstenberg.

Ross took her seat in the front row right next to DVF’s husband Barry Diller, and von Furstenberg paid homage to her friend by blasting “Upside Down” over the speakers as she took her finale spin — as Ross leaped to her feet and gave the designer a standing ovation.

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All the designers at New York Fashion Week are hoping and praying that First Lady Michelle Obama will show up at the runway shows.
This won’t be happening.
The P.R. nightmare that would ensue has no doubt been vetted (sorry.) and debated amongst the Obama’s inner circle.
But that doesn’t mean that Obama’s invites will go unused.
The White House social secretary Desiree Rogers was recently spotted at the Donna Karan and the Carolina Herrera shows.

Rogers, who wore a Carolina Herrera gown to the inaugural balls, sat in the front row at the designer’s show Monday morning and later raved about it to WWD: “The fashions were amazing. I do like her work, but this collection was very different from what I have seen in the past. I particularly liked the dresses for daytime that were a classic silhouette, but had a bell sleeve and were a little shorter, just below the knee. Those are easier to wear than the long ballgowns.”

link: WWD.com

Backstage at the Barbie 50th Anniversary runway at New York Fashion Week.

This is the ADAM Fall 2009 collection despite what I said in the beginning of the first video.

Backstage at ADAM Fall 2009 during New York Fashion Week.

It’s Day 2 of New York Fashion Week and we already have a scandal.
It involves the Yigal Azrouel show where Ashley Dupre, Elliot Spitzer’s call girl, showed up in the FRONT ROW!!!
And let’s just say that Yigal Azrouel was not amused.

“I’m shocked,” Azrouël told WWD on Friday night. “I’m not somebody who’s following and focusing on celebrity. I’m concentrating on making beautiful clothing. I’m so happy with how the collection looked, so I think we should be focusing on that, and not on the other side. You have to understand, I’m putting so much effort into what I do that this is emotionally hard. The review needs to be about the clothes, in my opinion.”
Azrouël said that when he reviewed the seating chart with People’s Revolution’s Kelly Cutrone, who handled the front of house, Dupre’s name was no where to be found. “I don’t know who she is, I don’t know what she looks like,” he said. “I didn’t know she was there.”
For her part, Cutrone maintained that Dupré crashed the show, which is contrary to the aspiring singer’s version. From her front-row perch Dupré — clad in relatively demure leather pants, towering sandals and a red jacket, her hair parted on one side — said she had been invited by Cutrone. She added that she and her manager Charles Suitt “snuck in” to the tents, explaining that no one had bothered her. “I’m here to see Yigal,” she said. “I’m really excited.” By late afternoon Cutrone was doing damage control. She acknowledged that her firm had invited Dupré to the Davidelfin show at 4 p.m.; Azrouel was at 11 a.m. (Surely the one thing a former call girl knows how to do is tell time). Cutrone stressed that Dupré “had never met Yigal, does not know Yigal and she was not wearing Yigal” — a declaration that did not satisfy the designer. “I’m not going to work with [Cutrone] anymore,” he said. “I’m trying to be calm about the situation, but I’m really not happy about it.”

link: Yigal Sounds Off on Surprise Guest Ashley Dupre - WWD.com