Pink Tartan, Kimberley Newport-Mimran’s label, showed separately from her husband Joe Mimran’s for the first time ever last night (Joe Fresh showed on Wednesday night). Two nights out in a row didn’t prove too much for the socialite crowd, since guests like The Bay’s Nicholas Mellamphy, Dealuxe fashion director Susie Sheffman, philanthropists Catherine and David Nugent, Alexandra Weston, plastic surgeon Trevor Born, Greta Constantine designers Stephen Wong and Kirk Pickersgill, PR professional Suzanne Cohon and her CFL commissioner husband Mark were all there to show support. When pre-seating began, Ms. Cohon had a spot of trouble with an overzealous volunteer who insisted only media were allowed in. Cleared for entry, the society doyenne took it all in stride, laughing to us, “I’m not mad, she’s just doing her job. They can’t know everyone, can they?” There was another model mayhem moment when one lost her shoes on the runway, which was met with loud hoots and hollers from the crowd. Though the audience always seems to get a huge kick out of this, not everyone was on board: we spotted Mellamphy rolling his eyes to someone across the runway (we suspect his eye rolling was about the commotion, not the model’s walking). The show started with a video, and somehow a film of a woman preparing eggs and straightening her apartment counts as interesting, according to Newport-Mimran. Thankfully, the clothes were much more exciting.

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