TORI Spelling had a fit when a security guard stopped her at the entrance to the Christian Siriano show. “Don’t you know who I am?” she was heard screaming – a cry so retro, we’re personally kind of lovin’ it. She didn’t hold it against the 22-year-old designer, though, because the two chatted for a while at the after-party at the W Tuscany while a “Tori & Dean” camera crew shot footage. Buzz ended up on camera when we asked if she had any advice for aspiring reality-TV stars. “You have to let people see the real you, warts and all,” Tori replied. Damn straight.
Fashion Week ’09: Reviews, Photos & Gossip
n Amanda Setton knows the secret to getting past 1Oak’s notoriously tight velvet rope. “But we’re the Gossip Girls!” she sang to the doorman after she and fellow GG Nicole Fischella (they play Blair’s minions on the show) were told to step back into line. They entered without further delay, just in time to catch a rare appearance by Wyclef Jean in the role of deejay. Benicio Del Toro missed Wyclef by just a few minutes, but stayed on to help 28-year-old designer Brian Reyes celebrate his first-ever after-party.
n Why is it that despite all the hype and money, the most fun party at Fashion Week generally ends up being an underproduced, plastic-cup affair way downtown? Such was the case Thursday at Radar Entertainment and The Last Magazine’s bash, where Michael Stipe, Alexander Wang and Phillip Lim danced the night away surrounded by statuesque models in their off-runway uniforms of ripped jeans and dirty Converse sneakers.
n Style can be a dangerous business. A woman at the Stephen Burrows show yesterday may have dislocated her knee when another member of the audience slammed his chair into her leg. And at the Richie Rich show at the Waldorf Astoria, a different woman suffered a seizure right in front of our eyes, and had to be taken to the hospital in an ambulance. Now that’s what we call a fashion emergency.
n As if staging the first-ever fashion show in the storied Rainbow Room – or having Mary J. Blige and Sophia Bush sitting front and center – wasn’t pressure enough, designer Catherine Malandrino had two models arrive exactly as the show was about to start. Another model canceled seven minutes before showtime. “It was a little bit of a drama,” Malandrino told Buzz at her post-party. “One year I had a problem with a shoe, and a girl fell on the runway,” she recalls. “It was a long time ago, but I do remember the show because of that woman falling.”
n Buzz’s curiosity yesterday about the source of Diane Kruger’s facial bruising earned us a phone call from the actress’ publicist, who assures us that it was laser eye surgery, and not a nose job, that led to those black-and-blues.
Additional Reporting by Brian Niemietz and Maureen Callahan.