You’d be forgiven for thinking that the most interesting thing about fashion week is the fashion.
While the forthcoming weeks in New York, London, Milan and Paris are primarily about showcasing designers’ latest collections, the shows themselves are as much of a social spectacle as a sartorial one.
As the events are closed off to the public, they perpetuate a culture entrenched in exclusivity and inflated egos - and if you fail to see the hilarity of it all, you might just be one of the seven fashion victims listed below.
Tom Ford speaks frankly about going vegan and using fur in fashion
From the intern who fancies herself as the next Carrie Bradshaw to the security guard who’d rather be at the pub, read on to marvel at the cocktail of caricatures you'll find, as noted by lifestyle writer Olivia Petter, who’s in New York covering fashion week for The Independent.
The VVIP celebrity who magically appears on the front row when the show starts
You didn’t see them walk in, you didn’t know they were coming and you can’t believe that the really famous singer from the really famous boy band with the even more famous model girlfriend managed to sneak through the swarm of photographers outside - see Zayn Malik, who somehow apparated onto the 'frow' at Tom Ford without anyone seeing.
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