Like the butterflies returning to Mexico before they die, so are the models, editors, and other fabulous hangers on flocking to Lincoln Center and its environs for the start of Fashion Week. What did you miss if you didn't make it to the tents today? Let's have a look.

When the Royal Shakespeare Company opens its production of Shakespearean classic As You Like It (which is right up there in popularity with Cymbeline) in New York this week, there is going to be one part missing: the skinning of a rabbit on stage. Why? Because New Yorkers are a bunch of wimps.

It's time for all the designers, models, and assorted hangers on to finally head home and get over the constant champagne buzz of New York Fashion Week. Yes, today is the final day of the festivities, and we're still bringing you the best images of the day, like this model at Elie Tahari, who does not want to be messed with. [Image via Getty]

[New York Fashion Week kicked off at Lincoln Center today. Rather than look at the clothes, here are some of the fabulous images of what happened backstage, like these models mugging for the cameras before the Vena Cava show. Image via Getty]

To the list of surprisingly highbrow NYC places with bedbugs, you can add Lincoln Center. The creatures have been spotted in the David Koch Theater. Borne in on hems of trollops' gowns, borne out soon enough to gallop about town.

Today we headed over to the Fashion Week tents in Lincoln Center to check out the final collections by the 10 remaining contestants on Project Runway. What was good, what was bad, and what was the biggest surprise of all?

[Work crews put the final touches on the tents at Lincoln Center in preparation for Fashion Week, which officially kicks off tomorrow. Image via AP]

A tipster sent us a few photos of Anna Wintour checking out the rehearsal today for Fashion's Night Out: The Show, the catwalk extravaganza timed to the Vogue editor's annual charity event that's taping tonight in Lincoln Center.

We were far too busy watching the season finale of Nurse Jackie to attend the Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards last night at Lincoln Center. But fictional freelancer Betsey Morgenstern was there taking plenty of notes!

[Marcos Reyna lounges far above the crowd on the pitched Illumination Lawn that was opened to the public in Lincoln Center today. Image via Getty]

Katherine Farley, an senior managing director at the real estate giant Tishman Speyer—and the wife Tishman Speyer chief Jerry Speyer—has been named the new chairwoman of Lincoln Center. [NYT]

After a week of submersion in his captivating stunt bubble, New York will finally be relieved of magician David Blaine tonight as he plans to emerge from his freshwater aquarium. According to plans, Blaine will climb out, dramatically wrap himself in 150 lbs. of chains, and then re-enter the dunk tank to hold his breath for 9 minutes while breaking free from the bonds of publicity.

We are on record as being, to our occasional embarrassment, tremendous Woody Allen fans, and, as such, we found it impossible to turn down a proffered invitation to schlep to Lincoln Center last night for not only a screening of his forthcoming project, Match Point, but also a pre-screening Q&A with the Woodman himself. This was particularly exciting for us because, while our parents once bumped into Woody and his child bride in a hotel in Venice, where our mother is convinced she delivered a charming witticism to him in the hotel's lobby, we've never actually seen the man except on film. We were curious to see the movie, and we were equally curious to see him in person.