New York Fashion Week: Fashionistas Photobomb Homeless Man, Bitch-Slaps at Zac Posen

You might expect New York to be completely immune to the pure unadulterated baseness of humanity during the season of untouchable glamour and sophistication — Fashion Week — but at least two pieces of evidence to the contrary have surfaced. Let's break it down.

1. The photo above

The Guardian posted this photo in a gallery called '24 hours in pictures: A selection of the best images from around the world' with a caption reading:

"Fashionistas pose for photographs in front of a homeless man outside Moynihan Station following a showing of the Rag & Bone Spring/Summer 2013 collection during New York Fashion Week."

This photo gives us a lot of feelings.

2. The Slap

A member of Zac Posen's PR team got slapped in the face before the designer's show on Sunday, following the last-minute removal of 60 seats from the audience, a move which resulted in Very Important Fashion People feeling humiliated and displaced. Fashion Editor at Jalouse magazine ​Jennifer Eymere took offense to her team being left without seats, resulting in the particularly French display of retribution. Jennifer told WWD on Monday:

"I said, 'Don't speak to my mom like this. You have to stop to speak like that.' I said, 'Be careful, I am going to slap you,' and she kept doing it, and it just happened.

" I am sorry, I know it's bad to do that," she added. "It was a small slap. It was not strong. I didn't hurt her, it was just to humiliate her. She humiliated my mom, and I humiliated her in front of her crew. Voilà. I just said at the end, 'Now you know you don't f--k with French people.'"

Jennifer was attending the show with her mother, Marie-José Susskind-Jalou (president of Jalou publishing house) and her sister Vanessa Bellugeon (Fashion Editor at L'Officiel).

So there you have it — clichés do happen. People are actually slapped in the face during Fashion Week. And you really probably shouldn't fuck with the French.

Emily Royal