http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/07/fashion/kanye-west-kendall-kylie-jenner-new-york-fashion-week.html 2016-09-07 13:10:17 New York Fashion Week, Day 1: Kanye West and Tom Ford Lead the Charge Nine days of shows and parties begin today, as the spring 2017 collections (and a few of their buy-now brethren) take the stage. === Can you smell the greasepaint and seam tape in the air? (You may have noticed the customary early-warning sign: For days, subway cars on downtown trains have been filled with teenage models, all 5-foot-10 and taller, making their casting rounds, a tower of giraffes in their natural habitat.) Fashion Week, a nine-day sprint in New York, is one of the key happenings not only in the fashion industry but in the city, too. According to a There are hundreds of shows and presentations — and plenty of parties. Each day, we’ll highlight the key events. You can keep up with complete coverage at Here’s a look at what’s on deck today. • Arriving to kick off fashion week with a blaze of controversy (how else?) is • • Among the rest of the day’s shows, • In the evening, the upstart wildlings of • Off the runway, there are parties uptown and parties downtown, and Ubers frantically traversing the two. Cartier celebrates the reopening of its new, gussied-up Fifth Avenue maison with a lavish event. Farther south,