New York photo diary: days one to three

The DKNY show Photograph: Kate Carter/Guardian

The dresses at DKNY were not designed for the chunky-of-leg. Or, as the the programme put it, "the silhouette is super short and super voluminous" Photograph: Kate Carter/Guardian

Just in case any of us forgot which show we were at, presumably Photograph: Kate Carter/Guardian

This is what passes for perfectly ordinary attire during fashion week. Honestly, no one but me batted an eyelid at this get-up Photograph: Kate Carter/Guardian

The Lacoste show on Saturday morning. The catwalk was covered with white organic shag pile and the front-row editors (your correspondent being strictly third-row stuff) were given lint removers in case of dire fluff emergency Photograph: Kate Carter/Guardian

A common sight on the catwalks: tuck model legs into boots with thick woolly socks to make them appear even skinnier. Do not try this look at home Photograph: Kate Carter/Guardian

Gap's preview of their autumn/winter collection featured some very bored-looking models standing still on a catwalk for God knows how long. Though apparently Anna Wintour made an appearance, so at least they had something to look at Photograph: Kate Carter/Guardian

Weird posing Gap models in a room Photograph: Kate Carter/Guardian

More from Gap Photograph: Kate Carter/Guardian

New York fashion week is all about the hardware. It's too cold to show off your clothes, so absolutely everyone is clutching very expensive bags and wearing very expensive heels. The combined - for want of a better word - baggage on display at DKNY could have wiped out the debt of a medium-sized country. Maybe even America's ... Photograph: Kate Carter/Guardian

It was remarkably tempting to go and earnestly warn this woman that she was clashing hideously with the road furniture Photograph: Kate Carter/Guardian