Fashion Week Stargazing: Day 8

Orange juice, iced coffee and tiny, tiny chocolate cake. The breakfast of fashion champions. That was the menu, served by waiters on silver

 trays, for the 9 a.m. Giulietta presentation at the Classic Car Club on Hudson Street, where J. Crew’s Jenna Lyons made rolling out of bed

 look sassy: the president and creative director sported mussed hair, a white shirt and navy pajama pants with white piping. O.K., so the

 neon orange pumps helped.

 Ms. Lyons, along with Ken Downing of Neiman Marcus, checked out the designer’s embellished and metallic cocktail dresses. “Our customer

 loves sparkle anytime, day or night,” said Mr. Downing, who was heading to the London collections the next day. “I’m actually

 disappointed if I don’t see some sparkle.”

 Across the street at Skylight Soho, there was definitely some twinkling going on. That would be the pop of flashbulbs and reflection of

 borrowed diamonds for the Ralph Lauren show. Olivia Wilde was one of the first to arrive, sprightly in an orange silk faille frock and

 yellow lacquered clutch.

 “I don’t think I’ve worn this color combo before,” Ms. Wilde said, adding that “yellow is optimistic.”

 “It’s like a virgin voyage,” she said, laughing.

 Fashion favorites like Carine Roitfeld and Grace Coddington, whose memoir is coming out in November, had also taken their seats. Ms.

 Roitfeld was holding up quite nicely despite throwing a well-attended party earlier in the week. She has a second party planned for the

 Paris collections, in conjunction with MAC Cosmetics. “I’m looking for a new dress,” Ms. Roitfeld said. “That’s the problem with

 throwing parties, you need a lot of dresses. No, I’m kidding, but I like that the parties start fashion month and then end fashion month.

 It’s a good program.”

 By then, Ms. Wilde, along with her seatmates Jessica Alba, and the Olympic gold-medalist swimmers Conor Dwyer and Ryan Lochte, was in the

 thick of swarming photographers. Both athletes wore dark Ralph Lauren Black Label suits.

 A few days before Fashion Week began, Mr. Lochte had professed his love for the brand. “I’ve been wearing Ralph Lauren for a long time,”

 he said. “They make a perfect suit.” An aspiring fashion designer, he was hoping to see big industry names at the shows. “Anna Wintour

 and Ralph Lauren,” Mr. Lochte said. “They’re definitely great. It would be cool to see them again.” Lucky for Mr. Lochte, they were both

 there, Mr. Lauren taking his customary stroll up and down the runway at the end of the show as his family stood and applauded.

 After lunch, it was time for Calvin Klein, the last major spring 2013 show of the week. Held at the company’s office building in Midtown,

 the lines of onlookers outside were so thick, they were held back with metal gates as if it were Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Only no

 floats here. Just suited security guards filtering the entrants.

 Inside, the main attraction was a trio of actresses. Amy Adams, accompanied by her stylist Cristina Ehrlich, looked lovely in a white draped

 dress, which “feels wonderful on,” Ms. Adams said.

 Diane Kruger was in familiar territory having once worked as a model. “I was always too short to be a runway model,” Ms. Kruger said.

 “But I remember the casting calls and carrying around my book. It was always so stressful. It’s a lot nicer from this vantage point,” she

 said, nodding to her front row seat.

 Meanwhile, her neighbor Emma Stone, in a flattering coral sheath, seemed less comfortable. “She’s not doing any quotes,” said her

 attending publicist brusquely. Ms. Stone shrugged her shoulders as if to say, “What can I do?”

 Oh well, there’s always next time. The fall 2013 shows start on Feb. 7.