Zac Posen with models Naomi Campbell and Coco Rocha. Image courtesy of Go Runway.

Before Posen's show, New York fire marshals showed up and cut 60 seats from the venue, leaving the PR agency HL Group in charge to re-seat those who had been removed. Marie-José Susskind-Jalou, head of the publishing house Jalou and her two stylist daughters Vanessa and Jennifer were suitably outraged when they found out they were no longer in a prime spot for the show, which was set to feature supermodels Karolina Kurkova and Naomi Campbell. Lynn Tesoro of HL Group tried to locate seats for Jalou and her daughters, but the trio were having none of it and left the venue. A screaming match ensued afterward resulting in Jennifer slapping Tesoro across the face.

"I said: 'Don't speak to my mum like this. You have to stop speaking to her like that'" said Jennifer after the incident. "I said: 'Be careful, I am going to slap you,' and she kept doing it, and it just happened.... I didn't hurt her - it was just to humiliate her. She humiliated my mum, and I humiliated her in front of her crew."

It's alleged that Posen apologised to Jalou and her daughters for the seating mishap, but oddly enough no word on whether the unfortunate Miss Tesoro was in receipt of an apology from anyone.