Ashley Dupre at NY Fashion Week!

Being a reporter of any kind is easy when you have a scoop. Especially a real juicy one. And in fashion, the egos are large and so are the stories. Even if it really is kind of silly and not really important.

Much to the shock and dislike of designer Yigal Azrouel, sitting in the front row of his New York Fashion Week runway show was Ashley Dupre. You remember her, she was former New York Govenor Elliot Spitzer's favorite call girl who somehow slipped past the front row checker and watched the entire show looking fantastic and nabbing all the attention away from the designer. Ashley became "the buzz" of the show. (Ouch!. . . I think)

The story goes like this: Azrouel told WWD that he was reviewing the front row seating chart with People's Revolution, Kelly Cutrone and never saw Dupre's name on the list. "I don't know who she is or what she looks like. I didn't know she was there." Cutrone claims that Dupre crashed the show.

Dupre claims that she had been invited by Cutrone to attend the show and showed up with her manager Charles Suitt. Apparently Dupre is trying her hand at a singing career. (Who knew.)

By late afternoon Cutrone was doing damage control. Cutrone acknowledged she invited Dupre to the Davidelfin show at 4 p.m. and the Azrouel show was at 11 a.m. (Surely the one thing a former call girl knows how to do is tell time.) Cutrone claims that ". . . Dupre has never met Yigal Azrouel, does not know Yigal Azrouel, and is not wearing Yigal Azrouel. . . . " A declaration that did not satisfy Azrouel. (The horror of it all)

"I'm not going to work with Cutrone anymore," he said. "I'm trying to be calm about the situation but I'm really not happy about it."

OMG! See I told you it wasn't that big of a deal. Is this the wrong or right kind of publicity? So what's the problem if a former call girl sits in the front row of your show. She is gorgeous and more famous then you are. Get over it Yigal.

Lynn. Los Angeles