Fashion Week Craziness, Courtesy of Heatherette

Model Chad White got all strapped up for the Heatherette runway. Now all those crowds stranded outside clamoring to get in make sense...

As I’ve reported, New York Fashion Week is chugging along full-throttle right now. And Tuesday night saw the seasonal crazy-fest that is always one of the most colorful Fashion Weeks events—the Heatherette show. Always a loopy, mobbed party scene, this year’s show in the Bryant Park tents was evidently notable for the messy mobs all trying to get in, and the evident mismanagement of the guest list and seating scenario. Seems like lots of folks who had seats reserved for them never made it in, due to an unruly mess at the door. (Britney and Paris Hilton didn’t make it either, so folks shouldn’t feel too bad about missing out.)

Various articles in different outlets describe this scenario, my favorite being the piece on New York Magazine’s site that vents angrily about the chaos outside the show, and then goes on to gush about ultimately how fun and hilarious it all is. Which seems appropriate, after all. I mean, how can anybody take this stuff too seriously?

A quartet of looks from the Heatherette runway. Zany, eh?

I’m a fan of Heatherette, and I always love that their shows are basically a cartoonish send-up of a fashion show. The point behind it all seems just to have a big silly party. I can’t argue with that.

Just check out the pics from the duo’s “Wizard of Oz” themed shows and you’ll see what I mean. These aren’t clothes you’re really going to wear. They’re crazy costumes and party togs, meant to be paraded out by foxy models for fun. And click here for more shots of the hunky guys who walked the runway in the show...



Amanda Lepore, Heatherette's muse, gets crowned as Glinda the Good Witch backstage, right before she hits the runway, flanked by little girl ballerinas in tutus. Hurrah!

And like Traver Rains’ (one-half of the Heatherette design duo) T-shirt proclaims, “I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore...” Nope, you’re in froofy, festive and flamboyant Heatherette-land. Cheers!



Heatherette's Traver Rains and Richie Rich flank towering fashionista/celebutante Kimora Lee Simmons just after she made a superstar turn on their runway. Glamorous, and ridiculous... Just like Fashion Week oughtta be.