Richie's Entrance Leaves Milken Cold

RICHIE VS. RICHIE Nicole and Madden, Milken (inset)

"Even Michael Milken and his daughter couldn't get in!" is how one stunned observer put it last night at the raucous Zac Posen show. Perhaps that's because Nicole Richie turned the entrance to the Bryant Park tents into a photographers' mosh pit, choosing to make a dramatic entrance amid hundreds of waiting editors rather than do the usual celebrity thing and get shuttled out of her Escalade into the more private backstage doors.

"It was absurd," said one backstage source. She literally created this mob scene by coming through the front entrance, only to walk straight backstage. The only other person who does those faux entrances is Paris."