The runway at Givenchy’s menswear show is rarely a boys-only affair. Riccardo Tisci’s show today was no different—underneath those crystal septum nose rings, we spotted Joan Smalls, Lakshmi Menon, and Ana Claudia Michels strutting top-and-skirt versions of the men’s outfits.

Photo: Monica Feudi / Feudiguaineri.com

It’s an odd thing when nearly half a party’s honorees are not technically allowed to take part in the open bar that’s toasting them. But such was the case at the Ford Models cocktail party at the Rose Bar last night. At the evening’s outset, that younger set milled about in one corner of the [...]

If you needed further proof that Paris is burning H-O-T with cool right now, check out Lakshmi Menon’s endorsement: an Eiffel Tower tee. The Indian beauty was snapped at a party for the London designer Duro Olowu last night. Read more about the City of Light here, and check back for Olowu party pics soon.

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8 a.m.
Just woke up. I need a caffè Americano with lots of sugar. I’m Dazeddigital.com’s guest blogger this week so I have to cover all the fashion week stuff. Previously Julia Restoin-Roitfeld covered New York fashion week, and now it’s my turn. Today is all about meetings. I’m running to photographer Vicky Trombetta’s studio to [...]

With campaigns for Givenchy and MaxMara in the bag—not to mention an extensive list of bookings this season—Ford’s Lakshmi Menon is one of 2009’s hottest models. Style.com caught up with the stunner from South India on one of her many sleep-deprived days of New York fashion week.
Here, we track her hour by hour.
—Nicholas Boston

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Every season we call out the new models who made the biggest impact on the runways, either by walking in the most shows or scoring the important opening and closing spots—in corsets and gravity-defying (and sometimes downright cruel) shoes, to boot. But with so many girls arriving from all corners of the globe, it was [...]