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Imagine treating Fashion Week like your own, personal, live J.Crew catalog. In today's WSJ, Elizabeth Holmes interviews women who shop straight from the runway. Some order directly from designers, but others have relationships with retailers who mail them full-price designer looks, knowing they'll be interested—and able to pay. And not all of them are hedge fund wives: "Bree Laughrun, a 26-year-old Charlotte, N.C., criminal-defense attorney focused on domestic violence, often wears Balmain to court." OK, so her parents help buy her clothes, but still: CBS, you might want to commission a crime drama based on this woman immediately. [WSJ]
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