Saturday, September 6

Weekend shmeekend! Lacoste fans, accustomed to sailing on the Chesapeake at this hour, will have no problem with the label’s 10 a.m. fashion show start time; Charlotte Ronson, twin of Lindsay Lohan’s nightlife-lovin’, fedora-favoring girlfriend, Samantha, opts for a more sensible, hangover-friendly 2 p.m. And in not entirely unrelated news, take an extra Xanax this morning: The Brick Theater’s New York Clown Theatre Festival kicks off with the Clown Subway Parade, featuring hundreds of clowns storming our subway system at the Union Square stop, where they will alight for—where else—Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, handing out red clown noses and injecting sheer terror into your evening commute. 

[Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, www.mbfashionweek.com for schedule, invite only; New York Clown Theatre Festival, Union Square, 4:30 p.m., www.bricktheater.com]

mbryan@observer.com