Were less-than-favorable reviews of Hedi Slimane’s debut collection for Saint Laurent in Paris spurred by the seating debacle during his runway show? Slimane assigned the seats for his show himself. “Many front-row editors, to their disgruntlement, were given second- and third-row seats, and some . . . had to stand,” sniffed Cathy Horyn, who was not even invited. Lukewarm reviews followed, including Horyn’s, who wrote that the collection was a “frozen vision of a bohemian chick at the Chateau Marmont.”