Standing Room Only at Miss Sixty
If theres anything I learned from going to the [Miss Sixty] fashion show last night at the Bryant Park tent it's the importance of a good lie. This is C. Edwards, fashion writer for the New York Press, Rachel told Jessica. Rachel was a Miami stylist who had become my best friend five minutes ago and Jessica was an associate who had the power to move us past the lines and right into the show. I nodded, Yes, yes, Im a fashion writer. Mm-hmm. Moments before, when the clipboard nazi couldnt find my name on the list, I had the opportunity to get in under Jacqueline Edwards, but my conscience got the better of me and I was cast into the standing room only line. Its true that I had an invite and that I had RSVPed as instructed, but thats not always enough to gain access to the tent. Rachel and Jessicas intervention was a second chance that I wasnt about to blow.
Soon, I was standing next to a cameraman with a little blond woman barking in his (and my) ear: Zoom in on them holding hands! She was referring to Anne Hathaway and Raffaello Follieri, who everyone kept mistaking for Zach Braff. Who cares about the clothes, get a shot of the whole row! Prompting him to scan the handful of celebs strategically squeezed together: Hathaway, Chloe Sevigny, Milla Jovovich, Ashley Olsen and someone everyone kept sadly referring to as Robin Thickes wife."
The cameraman would turn to me and flash his cutey smile, Its just a bunch of ugly people in expensive clothes. I feigned offense, You think Anne Hathaway is ugly?! Shes just so uninteresting, and look at her arms, she better start working out or shell be as pudgy as her boyfriend, there.
The whole fashion show experience is kind of like Disneyland; you end up standing in line for an hour for something that only lasts 15 minutes. But instead of bloated Midwestern tourists, you get some flash-in-the-pan celebrities, and of course, Robin Thickes wife."