It just means print gets kind of gross after it gets a few complimentary Chambord-sponsored cocktails on it. There are very few magazines I take home from such parties and actually read. Chiefly because I am drunk. But I have, later on, gone back and purchased magazines I got for free at parties. That's just the way it goes. They're on newsstands everywhere. Maybe I would change this policy if you every magazine were $7 on newsstands like Harper's. But I'm with Esquire editor in chief David Granger here, print is not dead, it is just not something tipsy Fashion Week goers who probably already work at magazines and thus get them all for free anyway are going to appreciate when they are busy heaving into the Bryant Park portapotties. [NYT]

Here's Fox's resulting wacky hemline story! The ladies of Fox Business seem almost personally offended that fashion week wasn't sluttier. They'll raise the nation's hemline by themselves, dammit.

[Image via INF]
It's none other than Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham. Major.

Fashion cycles often reflect changing economic and political climes, so maybe these skinny and uncertain boys, with their adorable, birdlike necks, mirror the uncertain state of the World Today. If that's true, the Calvin Klein hotties of the 1990s, like Marcus Schenkenberg and Tyson Beckford, represented happier economic times.

But maybe it's simpler than that, as fashion people scramble for suggestions: "It looks good in the clothes and that's the main thing. That's just the way it is now." "That's just the size that blue-chip designers and high-end editorials want." "No one wants a beautiful woman or a beautiful man anymore."

Whatever. Fashion is random as hell.

[Photo: Eric Johnson for the NYT]

InOtherNews...'s new line beats the original, Remembering Embarrassments Long Ago, Donald Trump Refuses To Properly Pose for Prom Photo

onebadclam's new line beats the original, Zoobilee Zoo Character Seen Strolling.

Furious_George's new line beats the original, Good Luck With Your Demons!

ColonelMustard's new line beats out the original, Anna Wintour Not Quite Sure Why You Won't Get Out Of Her Goddamned Face

Don't you dare use my name on this one! Overheard outside a show: "So this loser walks up to you, you touch his curly hair, and the next thing you know, you're having unprotected sex." Incidentally, I've been all up down and over this Fashion Week and other than such similar comments, people have been particularly polite - quite a change from a year ago, though that might be a function of my improving seating assignments.

JojoSaysNo's new line beats out the original, Sabrina's Aunt Zelda Stops To Chat With A Gay On The Way Home From Karate Class

SidAndFinancy's new line beats ou the original, Spaceman Returns Home, Performs Tone Poem About The Mysterious Universe

TheHonJudgeSmails' new line beats out the original, "I Have Claimed This Many Souls Today"

Disslexic's new line beats the original, "Don't Move Or The Girl Eats."

Lycra's "all shapes and sizes" group at Miami Fashion Week (via Getty Images); photo-blogger Merlin Bronques' shots for Ben Sherman (via Ben Sherman on MySpace); and some random "new faces" on Ugly NY Talent, which tells Newsweek it has had inquiries for fashion week but no bookings yet (via Ugly NY):

fiveinchtaint's new line beats out the original, Marianne Faithfull Greets Time's Passing With Open Arms, Sofia Coppola Smirks At It.

Give Till It Hearst, Baby! [NYO]

A Designer Gives Lessons on What's Sexy [NYT]

memily: First impressions?
malice: I feel like he's stealing black people clothing from the 30's. But I just woke up. And the hair!
memily: The Jezebels think it's very Grey Gardens.
malice: Hmm. Nope!
memily: What is it then?
malice: You're not getting the not-subtle homage to Isabella Blow? The face hats?
malice: Her style is there in spirit, I guess he's trying to have it be a tribute to her and that's why it's such a direct reference to her style choices. It's sweet.
memily: Hey I just wrote a poem
Jessica Stam
Is the same color as
Vietnamese ham
malice: It pains me to see her with Richie sloppy seconds. But also she's a Yankees fan.
memily: What IS IT about DJ AM?
malice: His D?
memily: Certainly not his DJ.
malice: I think the Ill-fitting dress on Uliana (the one with the yellow bag) is a mistake, too 90's Anna Sui.
malice: The print is little rainbow mice, which is very Marc. And someone else did a mice print a few seasons back but I can't remember who... Alice Roi? Jill Stuart? And the dress on Marina after it I sort of hate, but I love that she's wearing glasses. The thing about Marc is that some of his pieces really do look better on someone with a body like Isabella Blow. So it can look ghastly going down the runway but buyers should know how it fits.
malice: Oh and there were all of two black models.
memily: Right, Chanel Iman and Jourdan Dunn.
memily: Why does Marc's show start later every year? This year it was 2 hours late.
malice: Oh hah, weeeellll. The guy has problems, he suffers from exhaustion! Honestly, it was probably tech issues this time, that would be my guess. It could be that he makes people wait, it could be models. Also they did the whole show backwards says style.com, so maybe he decided that at the last minute.
memily: Oh good call!
malice: Okay some of the outfits are downright bad, but I think they're all inspired. It very much goes along with my theory about the taking off one accessory before you leave the house.
memily: Oh hmm?
malice: That that is bullshit unless you want no one to talk about you.

[Images via Style.com]

The afterparty was even more badass. We spent a lot of time talking to the models, who were all around twenty. The most voluble model was Dale Kim, who said he preferred to be described as "an entrepreneur of life" rather than a model. Later, we overheard him asking one of the other models who he was with (meaning: representationwise) and what his next big project was.

None of the models got paid except in clothes, but they did get to take home goodie bags full of men's products, such as Mensgroom brand male grooming paste. There was also a little packet of samples from a brand called John Allan's. They were accompanied by a brochure with the John Allan's tagline: "Reality. Commitment. Balance." As if you are going to marry them or something.

The only drinks at the show were Budweiser Select and Fiji water, and the only eats were platterfuls of edamame and mini Rice Krispie treats being passed in pizza boxes. The free things situation was slightly better at the afterparty at Bar Martignetti. Downstairs, the hoi polloi (models included!) were treated to an open bar. Well, the vodka was free. Everything else, you had to pay for.

Upstairs, though, Kristian held court with his inner circle, and the food was free if you ate it off the rich people's plates. Lesser Known Better Connected blogger Gregory Littley was there, as was Social Life magazine EIC Devorah Rose. Socialite reporter Peter Davis's insanely hot boyfriend Paul Johnson-Calderone—but we thought he hated Kristian?—ate frites alongside teen soap star Leven Rambin, who took a sip of a champagne and ginger cocktail ("Her first sip of alcohol ever!" Paul claimed) and pronounced it nasty.

Kristian ordered steak frites. As I left, he offered me a bite of his steak. I ate it, so I guess this means we are friends now. The steak was pretty tasty.