How David Lynch influenced designers, as seen in the New York Fashion Week shows

Models present looks at the Coach New York Fashion Week show. Stuart Vevers, the creative director of Coach said he was thinking about David Lynch, the master of the surreal and the extreme who died last month, when putting together the collection. Photo: The New York Times

Outside the Coach show at New York Fashion Week on Monday this week (Feb 10), a woman was marching around topless on Park Avenue.

Her semi-nudity was a little startling, given the snow still piled on the sidewalks, but it went with the animal rights sign she was holding while shouting: “Coach leather kills! Coach leather kills!”