We know you would never have a problem getting into a show at fashion week.
But the presence of large security guards guarding the tents does indicate a certain level of physically-enforced exclusivity.
The ladies at lookonline.com interviewed the site manager and president of Citadel Security, who provide the guards for NY fashion week, and compiled this list of the top ten excuses of the uninvited:
“#1 “My friend is inside and she/he has my invitation”
#2 “I’m the one who put the bathrooms in this joint”
#3 “The designer asked me to come by today”
#4 “I KNOW I have a seat inside, but I left my invite in a taxi”
#5 “I was e-mailed to be here. It’s on my Blackberry”
#6 “We are all employees”
#7 “My friend told me to ask for “her”/”him”
#8 “DON’T YOU know who I am?”
#9 “I’M on the LIST!”
#10 “I am with her…she is with me…DON’T you know who the hell we are?” “
If none of those work for you, we recommend faking an accent and playing the “foreign press” card.
—ALISON COOL
posted by anon
Sep 21, 2007 11:18AM
They had a show on CourtTV called Fashion Police I stumbled upon one day and it was all about the security at the tents and what the Citadel guys go through each day during Fashion Week…SO hilarious and they might actually work harder than most of the editors during fashion week, and they don't even get gift bags or free drinks.