Ladies & gentlemen, it's fashion week.

What does this mean? If you've seen "The Devil Wears Prada," you know what this is about. It was set up for fashion designers to debut their spring or fall collections (but in reality, it's all about letting every celebrity under the sun get a lot of swag, get really drunk, and get their photos taken while pretending to pay attention to designers). The established (Oscar de la Renta, Marc Jacobs, Betsey Johnson, Diane von Furstenberg [Anniemosity's personal favorite], Roberto Cavalli), the up-and-comers, all parade their latest designs around for a week, hoping to be mentioned in a rag almost as much as they are hoping to catch the attention of celebrities (everyone from Lenny Kravitz to Roger Federer to Reverend Run to Fran Drescher), or -- gasp -- Anna Wintour and/or André Leon Talley.


Ahhhhh. Titans of thread at Carolina Herrera.

But wait! What's that? André Leon Talley is wearing.... Baby Phat? Kimora Lee Simmons' line? Kimora is fun-trashy... like how Paris used to be, what seems like eons ago. Girl knows how to throw a party, but step back because she will not hesitate to choke a bitch, decked out in gaudy-ass bling from head to toe. This makes her pretty a-ok in my book. However....... this does NOT mean she needs her own fashion line. Baby Phat supposedly touts "Fabulosity" (which, in all reality, sounds like a word that I would use frequently) but has the smackings of "Hooker." Observe:


What?


Since when is this couture?


Gold lamé. Lame.


DANI??????? WHY ARE YOU WALKING FOR BABY PHAT. THAT IS A STATEMENT, NOT A QUESTION. UNLESS YOU ARE CONTRACTUALLY OBLIGATED, I DON'T HAVE A GOD DAMN CLUE WHAT YOU'RE DOING ON THIS RUNWAY IN GOLD LAMÉ SHOES.

This begs the question -- why, oh why, is the editor-at-large at Vogue wearing something from this line? And why, oh why, is the editor-in-chief, the most powerful woman in fashion, letting him? She's not named "Nuclear Wintour" because she keeps her opinions to herself.

So what does this mean? Is Kimora single-handedly ushering in the era of Tacky Chic? Has the entire fashion community gone the way of Britney Spears and lost their damn minds?

I don't like this. I don't like this one bit.