New Yorkers will take any excuse to celebrate themselves, and for the past Fashion Week the city has been injecting itself with Nightlife Growth Hormone, each night seeing a collection of parties devoted to the beautiful and the elite. And while we didn't have a fall collection to celebrate, we did just release our Hollywood issue, and if anything deserves a party, it's that.

Ever since bidding bon voyage to the Parsons School of Design in Paris, Fetherston has been making a splash among the New York fashion set. Her Autumn/Winter '09 show took place at the Fashion Week tents on February 15 and wowed spectators with super-feminine mini frocks, amazing gravity-defying teacup skirts, two-toned tights, lace gloves, flowing dress layers, rhinestone bows and accents, floral capes, and glittery mouse masks. The new collection is every girly girl's über fantasy.

Cookies might be the enemy for waify models, but rumor has it that Erin Fetherston and LU Biscuits will collaborate on ... something. Fetherston burst onto the fashion scene a few years ago and is known for her whimsical, otherworldly couture dresses. Recently she branched out to ready-to-wear and will present in Bryant Park four days before the collaboration will be announced. She recently gave a one-word description of her upcoming collection: "Sunset." So what the designer and the chocolate-biscuit company could be making together is anyone's guess.

New York Fashion Week topples over with model pouts, distended egos, and double-kisses. The whole circus is as fabulous as it is absurd. To usher in the Spring 2008 collections, we checked in with young, fun strut peddlers to find out what they’ll be listening to—on and off the runway.

Erin Fetherston
● New Young Pony Club, "Ice Cream"
● The Rolling Stones, "She’s a Rainbow"
● Santogold, "Lights Out"
● She & Him, " I Was Made For You"
"These are some of my favorite songs for the Spring 09 season -- each one has a unique tone but they share a common theme of love and happiness."

Photography courtesy StyleSightings.com

One of these partygoers has to get something off her chest.

It’s Wednesday night and the Lower East Side is filled with its usual group of guys and dolls wandering about as if they had nowhere to go. I shuffle past the wallflowers on Orchard Street, pretty boys in skinny jeans and stovepipe hats, pretty girls that look like boys leaning against brick walls as part of the usual weeknight fashion show. I debate whether to join in the impromptu parade, but I am already late for Flaunt magazine’s Revolution No. 9 Issue Release Party.