The Jill Stuart collection amid the stacks

Many fashionistas tend to tote around Camilla Morton’s bestseller How to Walk in High Heels or the kind of literature that features big pictures, shiny pages, and little folded-over edges with perfume underneath. So it was a bit unusual to see the city’s best-dressed at the New York Public Library, home of ancient tomes and dusty volumes. Jill Stuart presented her Spring collection here in the arched marble halls. The theme was mod Paris, the dresses mini, the shorts microscopic a la Sienna Miller’s control-top knickers. Also on the mini side were the smattering of male models, which was odd, two of whom were positively dwarfed by the ladies on the catwalk.

The celebrity attendees list was super short: Kelly Rowland of Destiny’s Child was out and about again, as was J.C. Chasez of N*SYNC, if you can call an out of work former boy band member such. Judging by the paparazzi buzz he generated, my only theory is that they have never heard him sing. -- Sarah