Seven strange things that are totally odd in the real world, but totally acceptable, even commonplace, during the planetary alignment that is NYFW. Because if you weren't immortalized in a street style slideshow, were you really even at NYFW at all?

The organisers of New York Fashion Week aim to clean up an event that “has been swarmed with fashion bloggers, street-style photographers and fashion fans.” But bloggers — fashion’s resident outsiders — have a lot to bring to the table.