The show finally started with designer Ross Higgins. He was the first out of the gate. He trotted as if on the drug ecstasy, and that, folks, set the precedent for what followed—a parade of models, each more frightful than his or her predecessor. Caligula had nothing on this design team!

Well ladies (and men) feast your eyes on this exclusive backstage and runway of New York’s finest male models! Consider this one of the editor’s pick for the our holiday gift guide.

Always a fun, high-energy show, Betsey Johnson did it again for her Spring 2012 collection during Mercedes Benz Fashion Week New York. Models styled to the nines with extreme attention paid to the tiniest detail. Check out all the backstage excitement before the show on September 12, 2011, at the Theater in Lincoln Center. Photographed by Arun Nevader.

November 30, 2011 was the anticipated Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. And as expected, Arun Nevader captured the runway and the backstage beautifully. What was different about this year’s show? The spectacle just seems to get bigger and better.

Nobody else had access. Nobody could capture it except Arun Nevader! Once again, Agenda has scooped an EXCLUSIVE BACKSTAGE . . . this time of Monique L’Huillier’s Spring 2012 Collection at Lincoln Center on September 10, during Mercedes Benz Fashion Week New York.

Ina Soltani launched her collection of “siren” evening wear on March 18, 2011, at Vibiana in Downtown LA on the closing night of Style Fashion Week LA. This collection was inspired by the designer’s homeland and its dramatic narratives and artisans’ traditions, and a lot of old Hollywood glamour.

Louis Vuitton premiered the Ready to Wear Autumn/Winter 2011/2012 collection during Paris Fashion Week at Cour Carree du Louvre on March 9, 2011 in Paris, France.

With the sunlight streaming through, models and stylists were busy at work creating just the right look for designers Miho Aoki and Thuy Pham who were to present the following looks of coats, coat dresses, oversized cardigans and jodhpurs sprinkled with plaid, wool, and thigh high leather boots.

Photographer Arun Nevader captured Backstage and First Looks exclusively for Agenda Magazine at the Monique L’Huillier pre-runway show at Lincoln Center during Mercedes Benz Fashion Week New York Fall 2011 Collections.

“One year ago, I came upon an old photo collection at a small flea market in L.A. Within in it were very deep and expansive black-and-white landscape images. I learned it was a collection of photos of Yosemite National Park by the artist Ansel Adams. He was the first to compile photographic techniques in written form.”—N. Hoolywood Fashion Designer Daisuke Obana