New York Fashion Week

A model is picked out by spotlights at the Nicholai Spring show Photograph: Eric Thayer/Reuters

Working on the eyelashes, backstage at Nanette Lepore Photograph: Eric Thayer/Reuters

Matching dress and umbrella at the Tracey Reese catwalk show Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters

Jewel coloured gowns at the Ralph Lauren show Photograph: Jason DeCrow/AP

Gold shoes with fishnet popsocks at the Anna Sui show Photograph: Stephen Chernin/AP

The Vera Wang show Photograph: Stephen Chernin/AP

The Jill Stuart collection Photograph: Jamie Fine/Reuters

The Ralph Lauren show in the Conservancy Gardens in Central Park Photograph: Peter Foley/EPA

A worker checks seating arrangements before the Michael Kors collection Photograph: Eric Thayer/Reuters

Models wait backstage before the Willow 2008 spring/summer collection Photograph: Oded Balilty/AP

Members of the audience scrutinise a creation by Diane von Furstenberg Photograph: Nicholas Roberts/AFP

Nail polish is applied backstage before the Ports 1961 collection Photograph: Oded Balility/AP

Vogue editor Anna Wintour, seen for once without her trademark sunglasses, speaks on a cell phone before the J. Mendel show Photograph: Eric Thayer/Reuters

Photographers at the Oscar de la Renta show Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters

A model at the Ralph Lauren show Photograph: Jason DeCrow/AP