[The post-apocalyptic models in the Missoni show strut their stuff in the blue glow of Milan's Vittorio Emmanuele II gallery to kick off the start of the city's fashion week. Image via Getty]

• London Fashion Week kicked into high gear over the weekend. Given LFW is celebrating its 25th anniversary and a handful of designers who have been absent in recent years have returned, it's shaping up to be London's biggest year yet. Further proof of LFW's resurgence: Vogue editrix Anna Wintour (seen here fumbling with her BlackBerry) is attending the shows following a two-year hiatus. [Telegraph, LAT, NYT, Guardian]
• While many top NY-based fashion editors are turning up to the shows in London, many mags are saving cash by divvying up editors between the shows in London, Milan, and Paris. Or by making them stay at cheaper hotels. [WWD]
• More highlights and reviews from LFW's first few days. [NYT, NYT, Pipeline]

I honestly don't know how else to caption this tipster'd photo of Bee Shaffer—Anna Wintour's daughter, right—and two friends, one of whom is dressed as a sparkly chicken. This looks like the most fun night ever. Explanations? Update!

Fashion Week just OD'd. But I'm comforted by the fact that its sexy corpse will rise again to do another skeleton dance on the catwalk, seduce the style-obsessed among us, and throw up at an after-party at Indochine.

You'll find a recap of the last day of New York Fashion Week after the jump.

Douglas Hannant previewed his spring collection in the Terrace Room of the Plaza on Monday night, which is located just upstairs from the designer's brand new, Geoffrey Bradfield-designed boutique. Given Hannant's popularity with the Upper East Side moneyed set, a long list of society fixtures turned up to pay tribute to Hannant, including Tinsley Mortimer, Cece Cord, Bettina Zilkha, Jennifer Creel, Annie Churchill, Alexandra Lebenthal, Gillian Hearst, and Valesca Guerrand-Hermès. Roving party reporter Douglas Marshall caught up with Beverly Johnson, legendary model and the first African-African woman to appear on the cover of Vogue, to ask her about the modeling biz today and Tyra Banks.

You'll find a recap of the last 24 hours or so of Fashion Week after the jump.

Once upon a time the John Varvatos store reeked of rat poison, sweaty skinheads and Iggy Pop's low-hanging balls. But last night, the scent was decidedly sweeter for me, because I totally partied on a tour bus with Perry Farrell.

[Tinsley Mortimer drives designer Betsy Johnson to drink last night after her fashion show. Image via Getty]

At Fashion Week back in February, Ashley Dupre sat in the front row at Yigal Azrouel's show. He didn't want her back this time around. But she made other arrangements to make sure she gets noticed this Fashion Week. She's now modeling, apparently. Dupre walked the runway for designer Bahar Shahpar's "eco-friendly" line yesterday afternoon. And whatever self-image issues she has (and she has many), set the girl down in the dysfunctional world of fashion and she manages to come off as healthy: "It was nice to see a model with a slightly more normal, a.k.a. curvy, body type." [Ecouterre via Gawker]

Out with the whore, in with the new, for Ashlee Dupré, most known for hookering it up with Eliot Spitzer, apparently hit the runway this week at Bahar Shahpar's show yesterday. You go, call girl!

You'll find a recap of the last 24 hours or so of Fashion Week after the jump.

[A model, who looks like a Keith Haring painting comes to life, stands for photographers in Bryant Park today as part of fashion week. Image via Getty]

Stacey Bendet showed off her Alice + Olivia collection for Spring 2010 on Saturday evening in a raw gallery space in the meatpacking district. (How raw? So raw that wooden boards had to be placed over the metal grates on the floors so that a socialite or celeb in 7-inch heels wouldn't be maimed at the show.) The all-female French rock band Plastiscines performed; the crowd included the likes of Lindsay Lohan, Jared Leto, Nicky Hilton, Mena Suvari, Shenae Grimes, Kristin Cavallari, AnnaLynne McCord, and Tinsley Mortimer. Party-hopping reporter Douglas Marshall struck up a conversation with Nylon style director and girl-about-town Dani Stahl, Nylon publisher Jaclynn Jarrett, and Eleanor Ylvisaker, a co-founder of Earnest Sewn and the denim brand's former PR queen.

[A model gives her camera phone a workout while getting her hair did backstage at the Badgley Mischka show today. Image via Getty]

Snuggie runway show at Fashion Week. You already missed it, loser.

I couldn't get into the big Marc Jacobs party at Hiro Ballroom last night. I didn't get to see Lady Ga Ga play a white piano, nor did I witness her violate a completely-shaved centaur backstage with a strap-on.

Below: A recap of what you've missed at Fashion Week the past couple of days.

Fashion Week heaps tons of attention on designers (who design the clothes), editors (who ostensibly review them), and the actresses and socialites who attend the shows (and serve as front row decoration). One group that gets precious little attention during the industry's biggest event of the year: the photographers who document it all and take the millions of photos that circulate around the world. They're often ill-tempered, unkempt, and pushy, sure. But you probably would be, too, if you had to crouch down all day next to 300 of your peers and snap picture after picture of a never-ending stream of stick-thin models. Another pic of these unsung heroes of Fashion Week below.

Superstar MisShapes DJ and lovably icy ingénue Leigh Lezark may be the Anna Wintour of the downtown scenester set. Does that mean we can't be friends?