An incomplete history of Fashion Week controversies

The organisers of the Harper’s Bazaar party at New York Fashion Week in that fateful year of 2018 probably had a much more chilled evening in mind. Held at the Plaza Hotel — itself no den of iniquity — the venerable magazine bosses must have thought their bash would create some nice pictures, there’d be gushing over a few chic outfits, and then bed at a reasonable hour. What they could never have anticipated was the event descending into a full-scale brawl and the police arriving to see missiles flying through the air like so many arrows at Agincourt.