FASHION Week always brings out the worst in people – even violence.
Nicole Richie kicked off the diva fits at an after-party for Charlotte Ronson by grabbing a fan’s camera and smashing it to the ground. While Lindsay Lohan and Sam Ronson were celebrating at Country Club on West 14th Street with host Alan Philips of Sky Group, Richie left early at 11 p.m.
As she walked out, “a young, Swedish tourist was trying to take her photo,” said one witness. Richie shouted, “I’m not an animal” then “jumped over the velvet rope, ripped the camera out of the girl’s hand, and smashed it to the ground.” Reps for Richie didn’t reply to Page Six.
The drama continued the other night at the Mini Rooftop NYC, a Fashion Week venue atop a building at 10th Avenue and 36th, when Andrew VanWyngarden, the lead singer of MGMT, “enjoyed a little too much whiskey pre-show,” according to a spy.
The rocker allegedly “threw a drink at a security guard in the VIP room,” and ended up throwing pillows from a sofa at the beleaguered sentinel.
“They gave him [VanWyngarden] a cooling-off period, and he wobbled onstage to perform 40 minutes later,” our source said, for a crowd that included May Anderson, Solange Knowles and Mary-Kate Olsen, with her artist/deejay boyfriend, Nate Loman.
Meanwhile, at the Calvin Klein party under the High Line, Djimon Hounsou, the boyfriend of Kimora Lee Simmons, fought over a bottle of water a waitress tried to deliver to Natasha Bedingfield.
“He wanted the water, but Natasha had performed and ordered it first, and the waitress told him no. So he grabbed it. A friend of Natasha’s went and took the water back, and he freaked. He walked over, grabbed the bottle and screamed at her, ‘Don’t touch my water! That’s for me!’ Kimora was laughing the entire time and egging him on.” Hounsou’s rep said, “Let me look into it.”
* More on Fashion Week: HERE.