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The small, big fashion stories: that time when (almost) there was a fight at the Zac Posen fashion show

At this time of the year, dedicated to fashion weeks, all the spotlight is on the catwalks and celebrities in the front row, that is, on the more glossy and glamorous side of the fashion system. However, we often forget what happens backstage, between unforeseen catastrophic events and avalanches of stress to manage. So big, they even lead to… physical violence. Our story today recalls one of the rare – as far as we know, of course – moments in which it has gone far beyond vocal insults, on the occasion of a parade of Zac Posen: this is the show for the Spring / Summer 2013 collection in New York, where, despite the elegant and stately atmosphere that permeated the whole, a physical altercation infused a touch of spice to the event.

Fatigue, for the workers in the fashion sector, makes itself felt during the fashion weeks: too many fashion shows, presentations, endless queues, waiting and constant pushes. And if, once you arrive at a fashion show, your place has literally evaporated, there crisis is around the corner: to cause it all, just thirty minutes before the Zac Posen show, were the NYFD firefighters, who intervened on the balcony of the Avery Fisher Hall to remove 60 seats, in line with the directives received for safety reasons. Needless to specify, a real nightmare for anyone who worked in public relations of the event. Therefore, most of the guests, arriving at the designated location, no longer found their coveted seat.

This, and the delay said to have been caused byarrival, forty minutes later, of Naomi Campbell, must have been too much for a French editor and her team: Marie-José Susskind-Jalou, president of the Jalou publishing house, and her daughters, Jennifer Eymere and Vanessa Bellugeon, respectively editor of the magazines Jealous e The official of the time. According to those present, Susskind-Jalou did not have a seat, and the co-founder of HL Group Lynn Treasure, PR, he was trying hard to find one. A “humiliating” treatment, according to the editor, by the team of Zac Posen and his team, so much so that Jennifer Eymere would have … slapped PR Tesoro.

The latter, after confirming the incident, declined to comment further. Eymere, reached in her hotel a few days later, took “credit” for her action, stating that Lynn Darling had been inappropriate with her mother, telling them that he should have seated other people first. “I said, ‘Don’t talk to my mother like that. You have to stop talking like that. ‘ I said, ‘Be careful, I’ll slap you’ and she kept doing it, and it happened, “said Jennifer Eymere, continuing” I’m sorry, I know it’s bad to do it. It was a small slap. It wasn’t strong. I didn’t hurt her, it was just to humiliate her. He humiliated my mother and I humiliated her in front of her team. There. And in the end I said to her: ‘Now you know you don’t screw the French’. ” In the following weeks, Lynn Tesoro filed a million dollar lawsuit against Marie-José Susskind-Jalou and her daughters, but after an agreement with a formal apology, the complaint was put aside.

A true story of humiliation, or rather a reminder on resizing one’s ego in the fashion system? Free interpretation to you.

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