Lots of people at Fashion Week are pretty and/or glamorous and, sigh, we'll never be like them. But at least we can look at them. In a gallery, after the jump.

["Gossip Girl" actress Taylor Momsen at Fashion Week; image via Getty]

Kate Moss is not happy: Do Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, fashion nobodies, know how many fashion gods they pissed off by cutting the line at a fashion ball?

Conan O'Brien's story seems more bitter each time he's asked about learning Jay Leno would precede his Tonight Show on NBC.

[A boy takes a cellphone picture of First Daughters Sasha and Malia Obama sitting in the East Room of the White House as their mother Michelle speaks about Black History Month; image via Getty]

Fashion Week isn't just low-tier celebrities and odd-ball fashion designers. It's also backstage people and ugly old people and stuff. Let's take a moment to honor them, in a photo gallery after the jump.

We hear Jennifer Siebel, the actress wife of San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, is pregnant — and furious with the friends who let word slip. But we bet her pro-gay marriage husband is thrilled.

Which is less appropriate: A brand-newmom performing at the Oscars, from bed, or an image-conscious Olympian trying to lay low in a strip club? Decide for yourself.

Here are some images from today's New York Fashion Week events. We have eye makeup and Anna Wintour and the always-demure Paris Hilton. Enjoy the small gallery after the jump.

If you think chimpanzees are cute little hairy quasi-humans, you are right. But they are also cute little hairy quasi-humans that will bite your nose and fingers off (literally) if given half a chance.

Because the Jackson Family's collective behavior apparently isn't bizarre enough on its own, Marlon Jackson is backing a slavery theme park and resort in Nigeria. Doesn't this sound fun:

Want a date with the Obamas? The New New Camelot has a Zulu queen as its gatekeeper. Meet Desirée Rogers, the White House social networker who sat next to Anna Wintour at Fashion Week.

[Models backstage before they take to the runway for E. Y. Wada's Fashion Week show in New York today; image via Getty]

"Steve Jobs has started writing a book," a plugged-in tipster tells me. It's the barest of rumors, but the book industry is already eagerly anticipating the Apple CEO's autobiography.

Typically, Project Runway rolls into Fashion Week with a huge swath of catchphrase-aspiring designers already cut. However, ongoing legal battles are forcing the new, still-delayed season to employ some subterfuge for Friday's big show.

The New York Times needed a tough story on Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, to prove its newsroom's independence after borrowing $250 million from the guy. The story's here! But is it tough? Eh.

So it turns out Ian McEwan totally had his friend Salman Rushdie's back twenty years ago, after Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Rushdie for Satanic Verses. No wonder McEwan is so anti-Islamist.

Sure, Caitlin Kelly was desperate when the freelance writer took a shopgirl job 18 months ago. But you know? It beats the endless, stupid drama of the newsroom in many ways.

It's truly a weekend for embarrassing apologies: Now Alex Rodriguez is sorry for calling that Sports Illustrated reporter a stalky burglar. His apology was buried even better than Chris Brown's.

Everyone's been debating whether Joaquin Phoenix's crack-up, as evidenced on Letterman the other night, is real or a hoax. It sure looked real to the director of his last movie.