Fashion folks in Paris are all a-Twitter over Sarah Burton's first collection for McQueen. It features models with woven hair, deconstructed tailoring, feathers, Anna Dello Russo in a centurion's helmet, and a bustier that looks like a golden chest plate.

This fashion week, we sent photographer Nilina Mason-Campbell to document the goings-on behind-the-scenes. Herewith, models reading, designers preening, dressers dressing, and, um, Alan Cumming.

A Calvin Klein collection under creative director Francisco Costa's watch has a certain familiar rhythm. There are the black clothes, and the white clothes. There is the blank minimalist rigor. There is exactly the one black model.

Possible reasons Fern Mallis looked so dang heartbroken at the Hervé Leger show: 1. The lights were hurting her eyes. 2. Max Azria strangled her puppy with a yard of industrial-strength elastic. 3. She was looking for black models.

Prabal Gurung might be so over "body-con" dressing, but what else would one expect from Hervé Leger by Max Azria?

Meet Selina Khan. She grew up in Martinique, where she just graduated from high school, and she's been modeling since her early teens. We asked her to take us to all her castings and show us what modeling's really like.

Chris Benz's spring collection mixes slouchy chiffon blouses and '70s pinafores with some truly enviable cardigans. It's fashion catnip for those of us who've ever dreamed we could be a long-lost Brady stepchild — like a really nerdy one.

Vera Wang's spring collection was unusually dark. Models dressed mostly in black and gray walked a gray carpeted runway, and even the occasional colors — puce, blush pink, chartreuse, formica yellow, crimson — seemed somber. Still, the show was beautiful.

In case it wasn't already evident from Rebecca Taylor and Tracy Reese's collections — or from all the high-waisted flared pants in the fall ladymags — fashion is feeling a seriously '70s vibe just now. Marc Jacobs is no exception.