At Lincoln Center, the Fashion Won't Stop Imagine the surprise this morning to arrive at Lincoln Center for the Richard Chai show, one of the first big ones to take place on the first official day of Fashion Week, to discover a scene of fashion bedlam. Outside in the plaza, there were beautiful women in towering shoes, beautiful women in intentionally mismatched tropical prints, beautiful women with lacquered lips, beautiful women with pale skin and oversize sunglasses and perfectly bleached hair and this season's Saint Laurent leopard-spotted cardigan. Thank God, I didn't buy that. People took their pictures. Imagine the surprise, inside the tents, to find beautiful women handing out magazines and bottles of gold nail polish and bottles of water to people who had scanned the bar codes on their invitations to enter the show. "Is this priority standing?" asked a man who was deemed better than all of the other standing people and was allowed inside the tent to stand before all the regular standing people were allowed stand. Imagine the surprise when a New York City police dog was led through the tent, sniffing for what? Drugs? Bombs? Knockoffs? A group of celebrities, Nick Cannon, Christina Ricci, Zachary Quinto, all with very precisely shaped eyebrows, were brought out from backstage, taking their seats. You are still not surprised? This scene is increasingly what people come for at Fashion Week, and its impact on the business is the subject of some debate. But for now, the clothes on the runway are about the last thing people are looking at. Mr. Chai's included clean and sporty separates, a sleeveless white seersucker jacket over red-striped pants, red cotton dresses and white leather motorcycle jackets, and more stripes and patterns combined in ways that would interest people, if they had the time to stop and look.