When the Lights Go Down in the City: Fashion Week Crisis Creates DVF Carnage
Just days after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and four years to the day of the attacks on the World Trade Center, tragedy has struck yet again. During the finale of last night's Diane von Furstenburg Spring 2006 fashion show, an entire bank of lighting fell on the audience, injuring several high-profile guests. The Daily breathlessly reports:
Among those injured included The Daily Telegraph fashion critic Hilary Alexander, Cosmopolitan fashion director Karen Haynes, Teen Vogue editor in chief Amy Astley and The Daily s own European editor, Karl Treacy. While Astley was injured she sustained a large cut to her back that destroyed her sweater — her affliction was not as severe as what happened to the other editors. Treacy suffered a gash on his head and was rushed upstairs bleeding from the side of his face; Haynes was ushered to an ambulance, where her neck was supported with a brace and gauze wrapped around her head to keep it secure and immobile; and as for the brave Alexander, she was taken out by a stretcher, head and neck bound with gauze and medical tape, to the hospital via ambulance.
You can only imagine the flamboyant mayhem. Editors rushing to the sides of their fallen comrades, Astley sobbing over the fate of her cashmere sweater and, like a songbird amidst the chaos, Vogue's Billy Norwich begging them all to "Rise to the fashion occasion!" The drama was fashion's finest hour, we're sure — although we doubt even the bravest attendees sacrificed their Herm s silk pocket squares as makeshift tourniquets.
