VENUS de Meisel

Back in 1988, New York Fashion Week was the last stop on the international ready-to-wear collections circuit.

- JAMES SCULLY

By the time the traveling caravan of editors, buyers, stylists, and photographers reached their final destination, they had seen it all and were already over it. The hot ticket that year was the Dutch-born designer Ronaldus Shamask, who had landed the coveted opening slot, but the biggest rumor circulating was that modeling's next big thing, Linda Evangelista, had gotten a career-killing haircut in Paris. Mon dieu! Shamask was to be her first show, and I had an invite.