By Mark La Monica
The question has been on my all mind all week: Aside from celebrities, fashion editors and other media people, who are the people who go to fashion shows?
I set out into the masses awaiting entrance into the Anna Sui show to meet a few of these people.
Ingrid Madrid, model.
Wow, first crack at talking to regular people and I find a model. Interesting. She's from Los Angeles but moved to New York two years ago, she said.
Madrid has spent the week in New York attending various shows to "observe" and to "learn," she said.
Among those shows on her list were Heatherette, Baby Phat, Millie and Y & Kei.
Mack Sims, promoter/actor, and Omar Anderson, attorney.
Sims, who used to attend fashion shows when he lived in Italy, loves the excitement generated by Fashion Week. "It brings out everybody," he said. "And being an actor, you get bump elbows with everybody, which is good for me."
Anderson, who said he was an attorney living on the Upper East Side, made his first trip to Fashion Week. "I love Fashion Week," he said. "Well, my wife loves Fashion Week."