LA fashion week: katy and tony

designer katy rodriguez and her main man, skateboarding legend tony alva, are what you could call a definite golden couple here in LA. katy played the part of saviour for me in a big way last night after i spent 90 minutes in a cab with a driver who didn't know where he was going. i finally arrived at a party for cartier in beverly hills to report on it for style.com, only to be denied entry. "there are only fifteen minutes remaining. we've already had a lot of press" said some dweeb of a try-hard PR at the door. "we've had red carpet, in style magazine, etc" were his exact words.

now let us not be primadonna here. but let's remember that style.com, the online home of vogue, is the number one fashion web site on the internet. how does denied entry at a fashion week event even make its way into this equasion?
welcome to LA!

back to katy, after the cartier incident, my only remaining hope to get shots in on time for a 9am send-off the next morning was a jeremy scott after-party. cabless on rodeo drive, i was five seconds short of a panic attack when lo and behold, katy calls out my name from the backseat of a car stopped at a red light beside me. i ask if she's heading to jeremy's party. she says yes and offers me a ride. the right place at the right time? hmm..maybe. but i still think katy is an angel.