Fashion week frenzy hits New York
With an eye toward people rather than clothes, reporters and photographers spent a day poking around the tents at Bryant Park, navigating the backstage thicket of blow-dryer-wielding stylists, pole-like models and headset-wearing publicists and sizing up the scene along the catwalks.
Betsey Johnson is to Carolina Herrera what a misfit is to a debutante when it comes to the designers' clothes, personal aesthetics and, as a tour of the shows revealed, behind-the-curtain shenanigans.