Celeb central (Talk of the Tents)

The stars turned out en masse for Badgley Mischka this season.But, really - does that surprise anyone?

Super-skinny Teri Hatcher, star of the design team's newest ads, nearly caused a riot when she appeared on the scene from a back entrance. "Teri's coming!" one journalist not-so-quietly whispered to her cameraman. Cue the stampede. Luckily the "Desperate Housewives" star had a multi-man posse to block the way to her seat, where she perched and posed.

"I'm sitting next to Teri Hatcher," groused a man standing next to me. "I'll never get to sit down."

A few seats away, Howard Stern's fiancee Beth Ostrosky showed off a cute little beaded black purse. Designers Mark Badgley and James Mischka "gave me this bag as an engagement gift," she said. And yowza! Her multi-carat diamond ring nearly blinded me. Ostrosky said she's just going to her favorite shows this season (Nicole Miller earned big props from her), but advised the rest of us to up our sugar intake to keep the energy going: "Put Gummi Bears in your purse."

A Farrah Fawcett hairdo-sporting Emmy Rossum showed up mere minutes before models hit the catwalk and was seated just a few seats down from Daisy Fuentes, an impeccably-dressed J.C. Chasez and Hatcher, who chatted with the men to her right and left (See? There was no reason to be grumpy!) the entire show. Ivana Trump and her fiance completed the row.

Noticably absent were the Olsen twins, who served as spokeswomen for the line last year.