Highly Enjoyable: Mindy Kaling’s "Fake Fashion Week" Tweets

They’re perhaps the best parody of all the absurdity.

Mindy Kaling’s totally made-up “fake fashion week” tweets highlight a lot of the absurdity of New York Fashion Week — gratuitous name-dropping, basking in celebrities’ presence, and obsessing over the politics of who got seated where.

Here are her best fake Fashion Week tweets, with photos to help illustrate them.

Mindy Kaling @mindykaling

fake fashion week tweet time

5:45 PM - 8 Sep 12

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Mindy Kaling with John Mayer. (I couldn’t find a picture of her with Adrien Brody, so I guess look at John Mayer as a “Fake Adrien Brody.”)

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Mindy Kaling @mindykaling

Was late to Alexander Wang bc couldn't drag Adrien Brody out of bed at Trump Soho. Fearne Cotton put her backpack on my seat, tho yay #nyfw

6:15 PM - 8 Sep 12

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Alexander Wang Spring/Summer 2013 show.

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Mindy Kaling @mindykaling

Its all Roitfelds and Ronsons at this subterranean bar in LES. My Eddie Borgo necklace is stabbing my clavicle. Where's Adrien? #nyfw

6:20 PM - 8 Sep 12

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Carine Roitfeld (right), former editor of Vogue Paris, now editor of her own magazine.

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Mindy Kaling @mindykaling

Took off heels and pretended to be Malia Obama to sit front row at Prabal Gurung. It worked until Tavi & Anderson Cooper ratted me out #nyfw

6:49 PM - 8 Sep 12

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Prabal Gurung show

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Mindy Kaling @mindykaling

Is this a joke? Ryan Lochte is sitting in my seat at Tory Burch! Texted Ronan Farrow about it, he was giving a symposium or something #nyfw

6:59 PM - 8 Sep 12

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Ryan Lochte, front row.

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Mindy Kaling @mindykaling

Got thrown out of Diane von Furstenberg, for allegedly asking James Franco if he "was DTF at DVF". Adrien and I no longer speaking. #NYFW

6:47 PM - 8 Sep 12

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Stranger than fiction: the Diane von Furstenberg show featured these awkward Google glasses.

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