Ready, set, strut: An insider's guide to running with the pack

LATIMES.COM: For the record, L.A. Fashion Week is officially called Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Smashbox Studios, hence the website is www.mbfashionweek.com. And it is officially an industry-only, invitation-only event that nobody should even think about crashing, not even if you're a very polite, cool, well-dressed person who learned in a major daily newspaper that polite, cool, well-dressed people can talk their way into shows, especially the morning events, or call the designers' publicists and ask for tickets. You didn't hear that here. And if you're in my seat, get out.