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.

    fake fashion week tweet time-- Mindy Kaling

    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

    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-- Mindy Kaling

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

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

    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

    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-- Mindy Kaling

    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

    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-- Mindy Kaling

    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

    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-- Mindy Kaling