Cathy Horyn vs. Oscar de la Renta
Cathy Horyn’s beef with Oscar de la Renta was one of the year’s most surprising, and also ended the most peacefully. Plus, it involved actual, almost-literal beef.

Horyn and de la Renta came to blows after Horyn wrote in her review of his spring 2013 collection that he was “far more a hot dog than an éminence grise of American fashion.” De la Renta responded by taking out a full-page ad in WWD to publish an open letter calling Horyn a “3-day-old hamburger.”

Horyn alleged that de la Renta had misinterpreted her review, but de la Renta stood by his angry letter, and there didn’t seem to be an end in sight for the feud… until de la Renta’s pre-fall show last week, where Horyn sat front row, wearing one of his designs. Beef buried?