While Fashion Week has been light on celebrities, it sure hasn’t been low on drama.
Justin Timberlake forced all staff members working on his William Rast show at the Cedar Lake Theater last night to sign a gag order. A source said, “Justin made everyone sign an agreement not to gossip about him. Then, three-quarters of the entire venue was closed off for him, so all the stylists were forced to work on 31 models in a tiny area, causing tempers to flare.” A rep for William Rast didn’t get back to us.
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Socialite Emma Snowdon-Jones was manhandled at Tuesday’s Max Azria show. She told us she was sitting with a friend “when a girl came up and shouted, ‘You’re going to have to move.’ So I moved and sat with Maggie Rizer, before a girl comes up and orders me to move again, grabs my arm and pushes me. I said, ‘That’s enough, don’t touch me.’ I was shocked. I’d have moved anywhere if they’d asked nicely.” A Max Azria rep declined to comment.
At the Thuy show in Bryant Park, “Real Housewives of New York City” Jill Zarin and Kelly Bensimon were seated in the front row, away from Alex McCord and husband Simon van Kempen, “because they are in the middle of a huge war,” a source said. Van Kempen said he and McCord know the designer and were seated with her friends. Zarin said, “Kelly and I were swarmed by press, I couldn’t see what was happening with Simon and Alex.”
Feuding Kelly Osbourne and Peaches Geldof had to be seated out of one another’s sight at the G-Star Raw show at Hammerstein Ballroom. A source said, “At one point, Peaches walked past Kelly and it was like hell froze over.” But Liv Tyler, Agyness Deyn, Mena Suvari, Adam Lambert and John Legend happily rubbed shoulders.
Regarding reports that stars were asking for $100,000 to sit front-row, talent specialist Abe Gurko, who worked on Thuy and
G-Star, said, “Nobody was paid to attend. We offered accommodations, flights and, in certain cases, grooming, but that was it.”