Heatherette’s front row was a lineup of downtown royalty: Kenny Kenny and Susanne Bartsch, Destiny’s Child’s Kelly Rowland, Kim Kardashian (who was wielding an “Extra TV” microphone), Alan Cumming, Lady Bunny, the girls of Danity Kane, Vivica Fox, and Russell Simmons, who turned up to cheer on his wife Kimora Lee Simmons as she made her model comeback on the runway. Paris Hilton, who’d been expected to walk, never showed up – “She canceled with an hour’s notice,” said the show publicist.

* Recent ex-lovers Nick Cannon and sex-tape-hawking Kardashian had a close call at the Pegah Anvarian show last night – “Kim arrived first and was chatting with the Pegah,” says our spy. “Nick was supposed to come through backstage but when he found out that Kim was already there, he went around through the main entrance instead. The didn’t exchange a word or look at each other the whole time.” Right before the show, “He was chatting up some hot Asian girl,” says another spy. “It looks like he got her phone number too, because he whipped out his Sidekick.”

* Hallelujah! Reverend Run’s daughters, Angela and Vanessa, tried their best not to be embarrassed by their dad, who was dressed to the nines in a velvet cape and, along with his mogul brother, Russell Simmons, whistled at the young, sexy models they liked best as they passed by on the Betsey Johnson runway.

* Spotted at the tents: Nick Lachey’s main squeeze, MTV host Vanessa Minnillo, in the front row at Monique Lhuillier – checking out wedding dress options, perhaps? … Chaiken’s front row – inexplicably the most celeb-studded daytime show so far: Cynthia Nixon, Mary-Louise Parker, Julianna Margulies, Kelly Rowland, Eric Villency, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr., Vanessa Haydon and Patricia Heaton.