New York, February 6 – People with glass houses shouldn’t throw fashion shows. The fun folks at Imitation of Christ, the design firm famous for holding their fashion shows in offbeat venues, this time chose the all-glass lobby of the landmark Lever House building on Park Avenue. Mix in Mary-Kate Olsen in your glass-enclosed, totally-visible-from-the-street front row, and voila! A media frenzy is born.

Steve Sands, the notoriously nasty photographer, went right up to the window, snapping madly. Security guards were trying to pry him away; the sidewalk became a giant melee. Mary-Kate took it in stride, watching the chaos and laughing. After the show, Mary-Kate was immediately hustled out to her waiting car, and Chloe Sevigny was rushed backstage.

And talk about the ultimate fashion victim, one of twelve glass panels by artist Damien Hirst, on display at the Lever House, toppled over and was smashed to bits. The 1997 work, titled "The Pharmaceutical Windows", is comprised of the actual front windows from Hirst‘s defunct London restaurant called Pharmacy. It could have been worse; if an alert security guard hadn’t deflected the falling glass panel with his elbow, it would have hit guests on its way down, and started the other panels falling, creating a domino effect.