An incomplete history of Fashion Week controversies
Gatecrashers, armed robbers, fistfights and hissy fits. Keep your wits about you this Fashion Week.
- Words by: Harry Shukman
Gatecrashers, armed robbers, fistfights and hissy fits. Keep your wits about you this Fashion Week.
Gatecrashers, armed robbers, fistfights and hissy fits. Keep your wits about you this Fashion Week.
The organisers of the Harper’s Bazaar party at New York Fashion Week in that fateful year of 2018 probably had a much more chilled evening in mind. Held at the Plaza Hotel — itself no den of iniquity — the venerable magazine bosses must have thought their bash would create some nice pictures, there’d be gushing over a few chic outfits, and then bed at a reasonable hour. What they could never have anticipated was the event descending into a full-scale brawl and the police arriving to see missiles flying through the air like so many arrows at Agincourt.
The organisers of the Harper’s Bazaar party at New York Fashion Week in that fateful year of 2018 probably had a much more chilled evening in mind. Held at the Plaza Hotel — itself no den of iniquity — the venerable magazine bosses must have thought their bash would create some nice pictures, there’d be gushing over a few chic outfits, and then bed at a reasonable hour. What they could never have anticipated was the event descending into a full-scale brawl and the police arriving to see missiles flying through the air like so many arrows at Agincourt.
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