Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn has a history of feuding with the designers she covers, but none so much as Giorgio Armani, who, like Helmut Lang and Dolce & Gabbana, banned her from his runway shows. Which is such a total diss because it's not like Horyn can't just go on Style.com or Wire Image to see what tortures he created for women this season. But without access to the shows, she misses out on the caste system of seat placement, and in the end, that's fashion's real tournament. But it appears Horyn would prefer to do without the whole nonsense of fashion shows, as if the millions of dollars in free publicity they delivered for the designers were somehow a commodity you could replace. Says Horyn: "I would be much more excited if he unburdened himself of the whole system, closed down the shows, stopped with the backstage stroking sessions, and went directly over the Internet to the public." For the record, we wholeheartedly disagree; making fashion a democracy will take all the snob appeal out of it.